It was, was it not, pleasing to learn that the Irish language – Irish Gaelic – has received full status as an official language of the European Union? What a tremendous boost for the language of that fine country. Language is the principal method of human communication and this time […]
November is invariably upon before we know it. For those of you in the southern hemisphere, temperatures are starting to ramp up and summer is approaching. Here in Scotland, though, the clocks went back in late October; it’s dark and dreich. A chap feels dolorous. Desultory. Meteorologists reckon November is […]
Despite the restrictions placed on us all by the coronovirus pandemic, many a Burns Supper took place around the world last night. All were held online, of course. More will take place tonight and tomorrow. For a couple of members of the Bagpipe.News team who ‘attended’ events last night, the […]
Today we look at a tune that is quite often the first piobaireachd most of us will learn. It is a straightforward yet musical tune in the Primary classification. A little known snippet of information is that the man for whom the tune was named was the inventor of the […]
• From the May 2008 Piping Times. By Joe Wilson I refer to the Black Bear letter [pictured, right] on page 47 of the February [2008] Piping Times. Below is a copy of the tune from a manuscript penned by one Donald Shaw of the 86th Royal County Down Regiment […]
