The Victorian Pipers’ Association (VPA) Victorian Championships and Australian Piobaireachd medal events were held at Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne on Saturday July 8. The contest had over 50 competitors across all grades and prizes totalling over $7500 including $3500 in prize money (AUD). Craig Sked (QLD) won both the […]
The Waipu Highland Games in New Zealand held their 150th Anniversary Games on January 1, 2023. Organised by the Waipu Caledonian Society, the Games offers solo piping and drumming competitions for all levels, and is proceeded on Hogmanay by a freestyle open solo competition for the Helen McGregor Memorial Trophy. […]
The Eilidh MacLeod Memorial Trust has launched a new funding scheme to support youth music groups across Scotland as the nation prepares to open up following the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding was launched just ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Manchester Arena terrorist attack that took 14-year-old Eilidh’s life […]
Today – February 1 – in Aberdeenshire, Scotland there will be celebrations on ‘beats’ of a different kind to those of the musical variety. The traditional opening of the salmon fishing season on the 87 mile-long River Dee, one of the most important salmon rivers in Scotland – and, in […]
Stuart Easton and Willliam Rowe were the prizewinners at Wellington Pipers’ Club’s annual solo piping competitions held at Scots College in the New Zealand city on Saturday. The competitions were held in person due to the New Zealand government’s success in handling the cornovarius pandemic. Easton, of Palmerston North won […]
2020 began on a happy note for some and a terrible one for others. Yesterday, the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) announced the completion of the £1million restoration of its headquarters. The building, in Washington Street, in the Anderston part of Glasgow, was engulfed in flames in March of […]
