By Fergus Muirhead. Piping Today #49. January 2010. Rona Lightfoot and Faye Henderson had remarkably similar beginnings to their piping careers. Rona had the pipes on her shoulder in South Uist when she was nine-years-old. Her father, brothers and uncles all played and, in fact, at times Rona thought that […]
The National Piping Centre are drip feeding top quality YouTube content from their live stream archives from the Glenfiddich and Piping Live! festival. Today they uploaded Fred Morrison’s piobaireach, The End of the Great Bridge, from the 2022 competition. You can subscribe to the YouTube channel by following this link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ_PyEhUNchg2gfW3nVva0A/videos and […]
The final episode of The Piping Show for 2022 is a seasonal treat with Christmas piping tunes from Brodie Watson-Massey, a good fun blooper reel, a Christmas history special from Dr Andrew Bova, and The National Piping Centre staff discussing their best-ever piping Christmas gifts and favourite piping moments from […]
The most recent episode from The Piping Show features two-time Glenfiddich winner Finlay Johnstone being interviewed by National Piping Centre tutor, and Gold Medal winner, Wilson Brown. Wilson’s questions about Finlay’s humility and self-criticism give an interesting insight into the mind of a top prize-winning piper, and perhaps highlights some […]
A musical tribute was paid today to the late Alex Duncan, who died in September 2020, by the pipers of the Atholl Highlanders. Alex, a member of the Atholl Highlanders, died from “sky-high levels” of cadmium in his body when he died aged 26. The inquiry into his death is […]
In the eight years since I moved to Scotland from Pittsburgh, many of the spoils of life in this new place have long since gone from novel to normal. No longer must I wait until a highland games to purchase piping goods in person; I can pop into a wide […]
Jack Lee took home the overall prize at the 2021 Glenfiddich Piping Championship, held yesterday in front of a live audience in the Ballroom of Blair Castle in Perthshire, Scotland. Jack’s 2nd place in the Piobaireachd and 3rd place in the MSR secure him the overall title. Competitors are asked […]
By MacGregor Kennedy If they should enquire of you, “Why do you love old Scotland so?” it will be apparent that they have never encountered the bright prospect of making for the Vale of Atholl on a brilliant autumn day such as we had on our way to the 14th […]
The Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario has announced that the George Sherriff Memorial Amateur Invitational Solo Piping Competition will be held in November. It will be held online. The contest did not take place in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be the 25th year of […]
This year’s Glenfiddich returns to Blair Castle on October 30. The prestigious 48th annual solo piping event will welcome a full live audience to the Perthshire venue’s Victorian ballroom whilst also being livestreamed. Callum Beaumont, as the overall winner of the 2021 Masters Competition, a qualifying event, receives an invite. […]
