Tag: Hamish Moore

More Power to Its Elbow: happy 40th to the LBPS

More Power to Its Elbow: happy 40th to the LBPS

As we reported in April, the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) this year marks 40 years since its inception. Founded in 1983 in Glasgow, the organisation is solely responsible for the revival of Scotland’s bellows-blown bagpipes – the instruments played historically mostly in the Lowlands – and of its […]

The LBPS … looking good at 40

The LBPS … looking good at 40

Bagpipe.news and all at The National Piping Centre would like to extend a hearty ‘congratulations’ to the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society (LBPS) on reaching 40 years. It was on this day in 1983 that group of Lowland bellows pipers that had been meeting occasionally at the College of Piping […]

Fundraiser for pipes in the key of C

Fundraiser for pipes in the key of C

Pipe makers, Hamish and Fin Moore, have launched a fundraising page on Indiegogo to make an album featuring some of the finest Scottish smallpipers playing Moore pipes in the key of C. There are 59 days left on the project, but it has already achieved the flexible goal of £10,000 […]

Ian Green of Greentrax Recordings: embracing piping in all its forms

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, […]

NPC’s new video series / Hamish Nicholson / Pipes for sale

NPC’s new video series / Hamish Nicholson / Pipes for sale

The National Piping Centre has produced a series of videos with the aim of engaging young children who are at home, in lockdown, and who may wish to learning a new skill. The ten-part series takes complete beginners through the basic stages of learning to play the practice chanter. The […]

Piping concert set for Inverness reprise

Piping concert set for Inverness reprise

Hamish Moore’s Cáirdeas Nam Piobairean vehicle for “promoting Scottish piping of all types” is to reprise its recent successful concert held at Blair Atholl the night before last month’s Glenfiddich. The concert will take place as part of the week-long Blàs festival across the highlands and islands and takes place […]