Tag: The National Piping Centre

Piping concerts in the third week of Celtic Connections 2024

Piping concerts in the third week of Celtic Connections 2024

The third and final week of piping-related concerts at Celtic Connections are listed below and includes concerts with Carlos Núñez, Kathryn Tickell and Falasgair, Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, John Mulhearn, Brìghde Chaimbeul, John Dew in the final of the BBC […]

Entries open for The National Piping Centre Junior Competition 2024

Entries open for The National Piping Centre Junior Competition 2024

The National Piping Centre’s Junior Competition will be on Saturday, February 17, 2024. There are five categories split into 11 events, and each event is capped so please enter as soon as possible to guarantee your place. After feedback from previous years there is a new category added for pipers […]

National Piping Centre evening class booking now open for 2024

National Piping Centre evening class booking now open for 2024

The next term of evening classes will run from Monday 15th January till Wednesday 27th March 2024. Registration will be open until Wednesday 10th January 2024. Suitable for pipers aged 18+ from complete beginners playing practice chanters to advanced pipers, these weekly classes in small groups will provide a supportive and […]

RCS Piping Degree Showcase Concert on Monday Dec 4th

RCS Piping Degree Showcase Concert on Monday Dec 4th

The RCS Piping Degree Showcase Concert takes place in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Monday, December 4 at 7pm. This year’s BMus Piping Degree Showcase concert will gather music from places across Scotland. Each year group has been assigned a locality of Scotland from which to draw their repertoire. […]

Piping concerts at the first weekend of Celtic Connections 2024

Piping concerts at the first weekend of Celtic Connections 2024

Celtic Connections offers something for every piping taste, whether it be pipe bands, Scots trad music performers and bands playing Highland Pipes and bellows pipes, or performers from across European piping traditions. Twenty one Celtic Connections concerts have been uploaded here on the bagpipe.news event calendar, starting on January 19 […]

Celtic Connections: Come and Try the Bagpipe Session

Celtic Connections: Come and Try the Bagpipe Session

  Visit The National Piping Centre and be welcomed by tunes by a first class bagpiper followed by a guided tour of the Museum of Piping and the chance to try out the pipes for yourself. Sessions Saturday 20th January 12pm Friday 26th January 12pm  Friday 26th January 2pm Saturday […]

Celtic Connections: Finlay MacDonald Band with Jose Manuel Tejedor

Celtic Connections: Finlay MacDonald Band with Jose Manuel Tejedor

Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music.  The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “For over twenty years, Finlay MacDonald has blazed a trail as one of Scotland’s finest contemporary pipers. His diverse CV has seen him work with leading trad artists, including La Banda Europa, Old […]

Official photos and details from 50th Glenfiddich Championship

Official photos and details from 50th Glenfiddich Championship

The overall winner of the prestigious Glenfiddich Piping Championship 2023 has been named as Callum Beaumont, as the event celebrates five decades of sensational piping. The prestigious Championship, which was first held in 1974, was founded by Sandy Grant Gordon of William Grant and Sons, and Seumas MacNeill who was […]