ON THIS DAY in May 2008, Greentrax Recordings released A Celebration of the Music of Gordon Duncan. It’s an album full of sparkling traditional music, including the fabulous Anada Pa Gael from the pipes of José Manuel Tejedor and the fiddle of Duncan Chisholm. The article below was published in […]
As Greentrax Recordings this week announced the upcoming July release of the new Kyle Warren album, Relentless, we take another look at a Piping Today interview with Ian Green of Greentrax. In this article Chris MacKenzie speaks to Ian about how he first got involved recording pipers and pipe bands, […]
By Tim Cummings Piping Today #79, 2016. For nearly two years this Theory Top-Up series has been exploring specific musical keys in our piping repertoire. We’ve covered about 10 different specific keys, and in doing so explored the tonal foundations of perhaps 96% of our repertoire. So what’s left? About […]
By Alastair MacMillan One of the features I enjoy reading on Bagpipe.news is the Stories of the Tunes series. One article that took my eye recently was the one about the reel, The Black Mill – or Muillean Dubh in Gaelic – a two-part reel that remains popular with pipers. […]
Lincoln Hilton from Australia was the overall winner at the Gordon Duncan Memorial Piping Competition broadcast live this afternoon from the National Piping Centre (NPC) in Glasgow, Scotland as part of this year’s Piping Live! festival. Hilton won two of the three categories: sets in the Scottish, Irish and Breton […]
We toyed with the idea of making Bon Scott the latest installment of our occasional Famous Pipers series. However, Bon himself would never have described himself as a piper so why should we? Today, though, we wish to pay tribute to the Aussie rocker who would have turned 75 this […]
The set of smallpipes that Gordon Duncan owned have been sold to a piper in Scotland who wishes to remain anonymous. The asking price was met and the money raised from the sale last weekend will go to the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust, the Scottish charity that helds fund and […]
After being inundated with expressions of interest regarding Gordon Duncan’s smallpipes, a spokesman for the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust asks that no more offers be sent. The successful purchaser will be notified shortly. One of the UK’s leading virologist professors – he is also a piper – features in a […]
A set of smallpipes that belonged to the late virtuoso piper, Gordon Duncan is being offered for sale. The proceeds raised will go to the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust, the registered charity that funds and supports young traditional musicians. The pipes, pictured, are in the key of D and were […]
• Where are you from and how did you get into piping?I’m from Columbus, Ohio, USA. I was five years old in a park when I first heard a piper. I sat and listened to him for what seamed like forever. When my mother found me I told her I […]
