The second weekend of piping-related concerts at Celtic Connections are below and include concerts with Celtic Odyssée and Gnoss, Alana MacInnes Trio, Dàimh, A celebration of music from Lochaber, Finlay MacDonald Band, Jose Manuel Tejedor, Ali Levack, Skerryvore, Leonard Barry and Come and Try the Bagpipe sessions at The National […]
Celtic Connections launched their 2024 concert programme today, October 10, and announced an exciting concert collaboration between the current Grade 1 World Champions, Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band and The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. The concert takes the usual Celtic Connections Saturday afternoon piping gig start […]
Rouken Glen Park in Glasgow’s south side will come to life with traditional Scottish and roots music from some of the country’s most exciting artists at The Reeling on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 June 2023. The opening day of the festival sees a raft of bagpipe-driven Scottish bands grace […]
The Director of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, Steven Blake, is interviewed by Dr Andrew Bova in the first Piping Show of 2023. Steven is also a member of trad band Rura, and brings a wealth of piping and performance experience from his time travelling and gigging with […]
•RURA at Celtic Connections 2019. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the event: “A unique opportunity to see, in a single show, two award-winning, progressive bands – one Scottish and one Irish – that are at the […]
As the pipe band world headed to Glasgow Green on Friday to listen to the Grade 1 bands, Piping Live! kept the trad tunes playing at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, in the Street Cafe and at the Old Fruitmarket. The Armagh Pipers Club drew a large appreciative audience at Kelvingrove […]
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 […]
Piping Live! is fast approaching and it’s great to see the festival returning to the Old Fruitmarket for the Friday night concert on August 12. Located in Candleriggs and starting at 8.30pm, this year we have RURA + Ross Ainslie and and Brighde Chaimbeul who are sure to provide an […]
Piping Live! will return this summer with a calendar of in-person and virtual events from Saturday 6th – Sunday 14th August. The world’s biggest piping festival celebrates its return to the full in-person programme for the first time since 2019, offering a blended showcase of in-person gigs and online events, so […]
Piping Live! – Glasgow International Piping Festival is excited to announce a new 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. To enter, acts must supply a link to one track […]
