The Competition League for Amateur Solo Pipers (CLASP) intends to add a second league table that will filter points into a new separate online league table for 2022. The CLASP league table will incorporate all competitions (in-person/online) points. Traditionally, the league winners are announced in July each year, but the […]
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Paddy Moloney, 1938-2021 / Gordons memorial unveiled / Instructors’ workshop
The world of traditional music has paid tribute to Chieftains piper, Paddy Moloney, who died on Monday at the age of 83. The acclaimed multi-instrumentalist was a leading contributor to the revival of Irish folk and traditional music. The band he founded, The Chieftains became one of the best-known Irish […]
Kintail rises from the ashes
The Kintail brand, which ran from 1971 until 2012, is back in business. Kintail was a well-known Scottish pipe making-company founded by Greig Sharp in 1971. After he died in 2009 his family kept the business going for a short time. Businessman and piper, Peter Weidig of Perthshire in Scotland […]
Lorient latest: NO bands / Oban’s new comp. for juniors / Samson book in print
With the COVID situation in France worsening, organisers of the annual Lorient Interceltic Festival say there will be no pipe bands or dancers this year. Methill Pipe Band, Strathallan Pipe Band and Prince Charles Pipe Band (San Francisco) had been lined up to travel to Brittany to take part in […]
Willie’s Red Hot torment / Stuart Samson’s new website / Pipe band contest down under / PS recital
A piper who is a member of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers has said he is groped, humiliated, sexually assaulted and photographed indecently by women on a regular basis while wearing his kilt. Willie Armstrong is one of the founding members of the world famous piping rock group which was […]