In the last five days The National Piping Centre has added three videos to their Youtube Channel. Two of the videos are from the Glenfiddich Championship in 2022, and feature Jack Lee performing and Connor Sinclair being interviewed. The third video is an addition to the What’s In A Tune […]
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Winter Storm concert free to view on Facebook
The Winter Storm weekend came to a conclusion on Saturday, January 14, with a spectacular concert line-up of top class piping and drumming performers. The concert programme lists them as: Alastair Lee; Roddy MacLeod; Callum Beaumont; Dollar Academy Pipe Band; Craig Muirhead; Matt MacIsaac; Stephen Creighton; Jake Jørgensen; Reid Maxwell; […]
Fascinating interview with Glenfiddich champion Jack Lee on The Piping Show
Jack Lee is staying at The National Piping Centre this week in preparation for the Glenfiddich Piping Championship on Saturday coming, October 29. So with Jack already in the building, Dan Nevans took the chance to put him in The Piping Show hot seat for an interview. Dan asked Jack […]
Tickets available for the Glenfiddich Piping Championship on October 29
Ten of the world’s greatest solo pipers will compete in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, as the renowned competition returns to the spectacular Blair Castle on Saturday, October 29. Competing this year are defending champion Jack Lee, Dollar’s Callum Beaumont, Glasgow-based Canadian piper Glenn Brown, Jamie Forrester from London, Canadian […]
The Glenfiddich Championship 2022 pipers and tickets
The 49th Glenfiddich Piping Championship will take place on Saturday, October 29, 2022. The event is held annually at Blair Castle in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, and is organised by The National Piping Centre and funded through the William Grant Foundation. The 2022 competitors have been chosen from the list of […]
History of the Argyllshire Gathering part 42
1977 BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE Competitors in the Northern Meeting Clasp Competition and the Argyllshire Gathering Open Piobaireachd competition in 1977 were required to select and submit four from the following list of six tunes: Sobieski’s Salute, The Stewarts’ White Banner, Mary’s Praise, The MacDonalds’ Salute (the tune Fannet would […]
History of the Argyllshire Gathering part 41
1976 BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE The Gathering had remained unchanged for many years but 1976 marked a watershed with the first of several big changes coming in the force. In January 1976 Seumas MacNeill wrote: “1976 is going to be – for piping at least – a great deal different […]
The best of 2021
Another year draws to a close. Another strange year. Another frustrating year. Here at Bagpipe.news we were in two minds, given the fact few piping activities have been able to take place for the second year in succession, whether or not to post an end of the year ‘award’ list. […]
Lathallan’s Loos pipes / Jack records a ‘stoater’ of a tune / Remembrance Day marked in Berlin
A set of pipes that sounded at the Battle of Loos and which belonged to an east of Scotland school’s first piping instructor have been donated to the school. Harry Stott taught at Lathallan School near Montrose throughout the 1960s and 70s. However, much earlier, at the outbreak of the […]
CLASP profile: Martha Hall
Where are you from and how did you get into piping?My name is Martha Srisamai Hall and I am originally from Upland, California. While in middle school, I heard bagpipes for the first time at an Upland High School football game. The summer before my first year of high school […]