GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. January 2023. It has to be more than coincidence that this past weekend should see a presentation and a petition collide. At this past weekend’s conference of leaders from the Alliance of North American Pipe Band Associations I led a talk on possible ways to […]
Simon McKerrell and Finlay MacDonald today enlisted well-known pipers, and asked the wider piping community, to put their names to a petition in a bid to save BBC Radio Scotland’s Pipeline programme. The petition has been posted this evening, Friday 13, on change.org, and has been shared on various media […]
• Our thanks go once again to the indefatigable Iain Bell for this month’s Donald Drone cartoon strip. Kevin MacLean of Simon Fraser University Pipe Band sent us this video of the Canadian Grade 1 band’s latest virtual recording. The band recently recorded Finlay MacDonald’s composition for his son, Elliot […]
After three decades at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Gary West is leaving at the end of this month. Gary, who is probably best known to pipers as the voice of ‘Pipeline’, BBC Radio Scotland’s popular weekly piping programme, is the Director of the European Ethnological Research Centre at the university’s […]
Young piper, Bradley Parker, is among six musicians to win through to the finals of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 2021. Bradley is from Portavogie in County Down, Northern Ireland and was until recently a member of Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band with whom he won the […]
