Tag: Keith Bowes

75 Scottish school bands go head-to-head at coveted event

75 Scottish school bands go head-to-head at coveted event

Renfrewshire pupils bag medal at major music championships Renfrewshire Schools Pipe Band hit the right note with the judges at this year’s annual Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championship (SSPBC), winning the highly-contested Freestyle category. In what was one of the most anticipated dates in the piping calendar, 97 schools went head-to-head vying for success […]

One week to go to enter Pipe Idol 2023

One week to go to enter Pipe Idol 2023

Pipe Idol is a flagship event of the Piping Live! festival and has been very popular with the Street Cafe audience for many years. The photos below show it started life as a busking event on the streets of Glasgow for young pipers in 2004, but it has become one […]

Celebration at the announcement of winning the Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championships 2009

Pipe band retro pictorial: the Worlds 2009

In 2009 Simon Fraser University Pipe Band lifted the Grade 1 trophy for the sixth time. Grade 2 was won by Inveraray & District who won every Grade 2 major that season. Their win was seen as their final step, and almost a formality, before joining the Grade 1 ranks. […]