The National Piping Centre launched a YouTube channel earlier this year and for the past month has been very busy recording and editing The Piping Show and adding a new episode every week. There are currently five episodes online and the format is fast-paced, informative and entertaining. The episodes so […]
Review by Chris MacKenzie • Great White Records, GWR008CD. Those of a certain vintage will remember the days where there were regular releases of solo piping recordings, featuring the piper playing a formulaic repertoire of marches, some hornpipes and jigs and, of course, a piobaireachd. These days, the truly solo recording […]
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 […]
Luciano Lanaro doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet. When Lou retired seven years ago he increased his musical ability by adding the Highland pipes to the range of instruments he already played. Like many pipers it is not just a pastime, but a full blown obsession that he […]
Pipe makers, Hamish and Fin Moore, have launched a fundraising page on Indiegogo to make an album featuring some of the finest Scottish smallpipers playing Moore pipes in the key of C. There are 59 days left on the project, but it has already achieved the flexible goal of £10,000 […]
National Piping Centre tutor, Ross Ainslie, and his music star alongside a custom-built classic car from Scottish Racing Team, Ecurie Ecosse. The promotional video is for their limited edition LM-C, and if you have deep pockets and would like to place an order for one of the five limited edition […]
Brìghde Chaimbeul and Ross Ainslie launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign for their new recording project this week. Within only two days of the February 9 start date, it has already achieved over £5000 of their £10,000 target. The link to the project is here The recording is focusing on double […]
On the first Friday of the month since March of 2020, the music streaming service, Bandcamp, waive their revenue share to help support the many artists who have seen their livelihoods disrupted by COVID-19. So head over to bandcamp.com NOW and browse through the thousands of albums and millions of tracks […]
By Stuart Letford The Conundrum: International Piping Night, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium, Glasgow (January 25, 2019) The new auditorium of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, imaginatively called the, er, New Auditorium, was the venue for this multi-national line-up of pipers brought together by composer, flute player, piper, instructor, […]
By Tom Johnstone, Scottish Delegate of the Lorient Interceltique Festival The 50th Lorient Interceltique Festival has gone ahead despite COVID-19. Strict measures have been put in place whereby anyone entering the festival area or venues must produce a certificate – a ‘Pass Sanitaire’ – to prove the person is COVID-free. […]
