To mark International Bagpipe Day 2024 we look back at highlights from Glasgow’s International Piping Festival – Piping Live! – in 2022 and 2023. If you are piping anywhere in the world today, record your performance and tag @bagpipenews in your social media to let us see how you are […]
GREY’S NOTES by Michael Grey. Piping Today #87 • 2017. Every June in the town where I live there’s something called Buskerfest. It’s pretty much what you’d expect: a festival of street performers. The whole of the main drag in town is taken over by a good cross-section of the […]
Four weeks ago, on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, the Masters Solo Piping Competition was in full swing in The National Piping Centre Auditorium. The piobaireachd event was held throughout the day with 20 competitors and was won by Bruce Gandy, which gave him the overall Masters title for 2023 […]
The National Piping Centre is inviting more women to contribute to their survey on the experiences of women in the piping and drumming community in Scotland, after a fantastic initial response that saw hundreds of women come forward to share their views. The extension of the survey comes as The […]
The Grade 3/4 World Amateur Solo Piping Competitions took place on Thursday, August 15 at Piping Live! 2023, held in the NPC’s Otago Street Venue. The overall winner was Kathryn McEwan and the full results were as follows: Piobaireachd 2/4 March Strathspey & Reel Jig
Piping Live! on a Sunday has a chilled vibe which is most welcome at the end of a busy week and following an exciting day at the World Pipe Band Championships on the Saturday. The events get underway on Sunday afternoon and a packed NPC auditorium watched Anna Smart, Alastair […]
The majority of the piping world had their eyes on the Grade 1 competition at Glasgow Green on Friday, August 18, and would have missed the public debut of the music of Magnus and Flora Stone from the US. The audience in the Street Cafe were treated to new music […]
Stuart Liddell was the winner of the Pipe Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital for 2023. Stuart played first and his piping and entertaining showmanship received a rapturous response from the large audience. Earlier in the evening, 15-year-old Cameron Bonar from Canada won the final of Pipe Idol receiving a set […]
A special limited edition tune book was launched yesterday at Piping Live! The National Piping Centre have marked their 25th anniversary by publishing a beautiful, hard bound book containing compositions from pipers who have had connections to the Centre over the last 25 years. There are only 250 copies of […]
Busy, busy, busy – or packed out – seemed to be the recurring theme at every Piping Live! venue yesterday. Whether in the bustling Street Cafe, the NPC auditorium, or the sold-out Strathclyde suite, the audiences were out supporting and enjoying the live music.
