The Royal New Zealand Pipe Bands’ Association has announced the premier of a documentary being screened on the eve of the 2024 New Zealand Pipe Band Championships, March 14. The film details the journey New Zealanders take to compete at the Worlds in Glasgow every August. The documentary follows the […]
A large gathering of bagpipers and drummers from the Southern Hemisphere is taking place at the five-day long RNZPBA Annual Summer School in Christchurch from January 10-14, 2024. Over 150 students from 10 years old to 65 and above will spend part of their summer at St Andrew’s College in Christchurch, honing their […]
The Jenny Mair Square Day took place on Saturday, December 10, in Palmerston North, New Zealand. This is the second ‘unofficial’ major of the New Zealand pipe band season, and the first where all the Grade 1 bands compete against each other. The New Zealand and South Pacific Pipe Band […]
Primary schools in Glasgow and East Lothian will welcome a Piper and Drummer in Residence in the new term. The schools are Windygoul and Dunbar schools in East Lothian, and John Paul Academy – and its associated ‘cluster’ primary schools – in Summerston, Glasgow. The two positions are being co-funded […]
2020 began on a happy note for some and a terrible one for others. Yesterday, the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) announced the completion of the £1million restoration of its headquarters. The building, in Washington Street, in the Anderston part of Glasgow, was engulfed in flames in March of […]
