The National Piping Centre created the What’s in a Tune series on their YouTube channel just over one month ago, and have since added seven videos to the series. The tunes offered so far have been a mix of classic tunes and lesser known tunes, and all well worth a […]
Tag: Gordon Duncan
Thunderstruck the play in Glasgow on Thursday and Friday
By JOHN SLAVIN. David Colvin’s critically acclaimed and award-winning play about Gordon Duncan, Thunderstruck, returns to The National Piping Centre on Thursday and Friday of this week, October 13 and 14 with tickets available here. I was lucky enough to be there when it first came to Glasgow at Piping […]
May 2008: A Celebration of The Music of Gordon Duncan
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 […]
Ian Green of Greentrax Recordings: embracing piping in all its forms
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, […]
Theory Top-Up: Exotic tunes and tunes that change key
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 […]
The real story behind The Black Mill
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 wins Gordon Duncan Memorial Piping Competition; Trust reaches £100k+ in awards
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 […]
For those about to pipe …
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 […]
Gordon’s smallpipes sold / Canadian online results
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 […]
Gordon’s smallpipes / Piper professor performs at COVID experience gig / St. Valery anniversary marked
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 […]