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 […]
Piping Live!’s prestigious international Under 21 competition Pipe Idol is back for 2023, and applications are now open. With four heats through the week of the festival from Monday 14th – Thursday 17th August, and a final later on Thursday, this is a great opportunity for young solo players from […]
The Lochnell Intermediate Youth Piping Championship took place yesterday, October 22, at Lochnell Castle in Benderloch, Argyll. The competitors were seven of Scotland’s finest pipers under the age of twenty-two: Ruairidh Brown, Andrew Ferguson, Luke Kennedy, Gregor MacDonald, Angus MacPhee, Cameron May and Brodie Watson-Massey. The competition is run by […]
Matt MacIsaac from Cape Breton has been prominent at Piping Live! 2022 as a performer in a Lunchtime Recital, a presenter of a Learn @ Live workshop and around the venues as a spectator. Last night he capped off his busy and enjoyable week by winning the Pipe Major Alasdair […]
These photos are some of the pipers from the Duncan Johnstone Memorial C Grade Jig competition in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, March 12. Kyle Shead won the C Grade Jig and the new trophy – The Roddy MacLeod Trophy for Jig Playing. This was the first year […]
Carnegie Mellon University, the private research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA is seeking a part-time drumming instructor to lead the drum corps of its Pipes and Drums. The position being offered is a 20 hours per week part-time position for 10 months of the year (the academic year). The […]
The Scots Guards Association Junior Solo Piping Competition took place today at the Army School at Inchdrewer House, Edinburgh. The results were: Under 15Ceòl Mòr – 1. Kyle Cameron; 2. Lewis Maxwell; 3. Fraser Hamilton; 4. Ryan McCreadie.March – 1. Fraser Hamilton; 2. Ryan McCreadie; 3. Curran Stainthorpe; 4. Ewan […]
A new ‘Goose’ competition is to be trialled at this year’s Festival of Juvenile Solo Piping Competition in Ayrshire on October 19. It is to be an Open event for players under the age of 16 who are in their first year of playing the pipes and have not yet […]
The 16 pipers aged 21 and younger who will compete at Piping Live! in August for the title of Pipe Idol 2019 have been announced. There are four rounds, each with four pipers, held at 15:30 on Monday-Thursday of the festival. Contestants are required to play an MSR, a Hornpipe […]
