Bruce Gandy was the winner of the Masters Solo Piping Competition on Monday, August 14 at Piping Live! 2023, winning on a piobaireachd preference. The win gives Bruce Gandy a place in this year’s Glenfiddich Piping Championship, and Alasdair Henderson wins the invite with flights and accommodation to the Sunbelt Invitational in […]
Sunday, August 20 is the day after the World Pipe Band Championships – but the piping doesn’t stop. The Gordon Duncan Memorial Piping Competition takes place on Sunday afternoon, then we have a trad music session with Tarran in Waxy O’Connors in the early evening, which fills the time nicely […]
Piping Live! is set to commence in on Monday. If you’re planning to be there for the entire week, get ready for an intense musical experience. The schedule for Monday is jam-packed: featuring world-class solo piping in the Masters competition, a seven-hour-long music extravaganza at the Piping Live! Street Cafe, […]
Friday at Piping Live! 2023 brings the opportunity to complete your Pibroch Network Conversation, and be part of the Piping Live! Street Cafe Big Session. Last year’s Big Session was a cracker, so bring your bellows pipes, whistles, fiddles, guitars, bouzoukis, mandolins… whatever, and session in the Street Cafe from […]
Piping Live! Thursdays are always very busy around the The National Piping Centre and Street Cafe. Heat four of Pipe Idol, and the final, take place on Thursday and no doubt the Street Cafe and NPC auditorium will be packed for both. Get your tickets for the final early, or […]
Glasgow’s much-loved Piping Live! festival is gearing up for its 20th edition, promising a captivating showcase of bagpiping and traditional music from around the world from Saturday 12 – Sunday 20 August 2023. Drawing around 30,000 attendees annually, the grand celebration has become a cornerstone on the Scottish cultural calendar. […]
Piping Live! will once again have a great programme of online events as part of the festival for 2023. With around 30 hours of content, you can watch the best solo piping, traditional music, Gaelic song and so much more. There is new online viewing software for 2023, through The […]
Tickets go on sale today for this year’s World Pipe Band Championships – which take place in Glasgow on August 18 and 19 – the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association and Glasgow Life have announced. Always a much-anticipated highlight of Scotland’s summer events programme, the Worlds attract thousands of pipers and drummers from all […]
All competitors eligible to compete at the Masters Piping Competition during Piping Live!, are reminded that entries close on Monday, June 26. All entry forms are to be submitted to the Piping Convenor, Wilson Brown at themasters@thepipingcentre.co.uk – entry forms are available from the download link here: The National Piping […]
Derek Doyle is the HND Co-ordinator at The National Piping Centre and one of his main roles is the organisation of the Higher National Certificate and Higher National Diploma Music – Piping courses. It started life as an HNC in 2016 and then the HND Course was added in 2021, […]
