The final entry date for the Masters Solo Piping Competition is June 26 and entry forms are available from the download link here: Entry forms to be submitted by email to: themasters@thepipingcentre.co.uk The competition will take place at Piping Live! on August 14 2023 and audience tickets are available here. […]
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! will return for its 20th edition this summer with an eclectic calendar of events from Saturday 12th – Sunday 20th August 2023. The world’s biggest piping festival annually attracts over 30,000 attendees to Glasgow and this year the Piping Live! team hopes to bring in even more visitors, as it celebrates two decades as a cornerstone […]
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 Piping Live festival takes its music to people across Glasgow, and an important part of this is showing Scottish culture and music to the general public and summer tourists in the heart of the city. Once again the Festival will place bands in the busy, bustling surroundings of Buchanan […]
Piping Live! – Glasgow International Piping Festival is excited to announce a competition for emerging talent. The competition gives new UK-based acts the chance to compete for a slot on the festival’s popular Street Café Stage and Festival Club, and be part of the 20th edition of the world’s biggest […]
Finlay MacDonald is the Director of Piping at The National Piping Centre and comes from a family with strong piping connections. He grew up within a pipe band culture that involved his parents and many relations, and that led to playing smallpipes, playing in sessions and writing music at a […]
The Piping Live! Friday night concert in the Old Fruitmarket has got to be the most exciting programme of pipe-driven trad band performances to take the stage in the 18 years of the festival – or indeed, at any festival ever! The Gaelic piping living legend, Allan MacDonald, and his […]
In one week’s time Piping Live! will be well underway, and Tuesday’s programme of events is extensive and offers something to suit the taste of every piper. If you are able to spend the day in Glasgow you can fill your Tuesday with bagpipes from 9.30am and keep going into […]
Less than two weeks to go to Piping Live! and The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland are preparing to present their concert titled Emerging Composers: 20 Years Young in the City Halls on the first evening of the festival, Monday, August 8 at 7.30pm. Ten new pieces that have […]
