Finlay MacDonald presents the lovely 3/4 march, Pipe Major Angus MacDonald, and shares his experience of being taught by Pipe Major Angus back when The National Piping Centre was just about to open it’s doors for the first time. The videos of the tunes presented so far are all below, […]
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 […]
The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship took place today, October 28, 2023, and was won by Callum Beaumont for his first overall win of the title. Callum won the piobaireachd event in 2022 and it gave him the runner up prize, but this year his piobaireachd win seen him tie on […]
The 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship is only two days away on October 29, 2023, and one can only hope it matches or exceeds “the best one yet” accolade that Seumas MacNeill gave to the 1977 Championship in his Piping Times report. However, in Seumas’s report below the reader will find […]
This CLASP competition will run on Saturday, November 11, 2023 via the Zoom platform. The closing date for this competition is Sunday, October 22 at midnight (UK Time). Events will be offered to adult amateur pipers graded 1, 2, 3, 4/5 and both Light Music and Piobaireachd events will be […]
With the 50th anniversary of the Glenfiddich Piping Championship approaching on October 28, we take a look through the Piping Times archives to a report titled Grant’s Championship, as the competition was originally known. Piping Times was edited by Seumas MacNeill at that time, and although the article below was […]
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 […]
What’s in a Tune is a series of YouTube videos presented by tutors and guest pipers from The National Piping Centre. The presenters share background stories on what the tunes mean to them, and technique on how the tune should be played. In the most recent video, Margaret Houlihan gives […]
A semester of study here in Scotland at one of this country’s leading universities may offer a once in a lifetime academic experience. If you want to study piping, this could also give you a summer of piping, the chance to play in a Scottish pipe band, travel around Scotland […]
The Grade 3/4 World Amateur Solo Piping Competitions took place on Thursday, August 15 at Piping Live! 2023, held in the NPC’s Otago Street Venue. The overall winner was Kathryn McEwan and the full results were as follows: Piobaireachd 2/4 March Strathspey & Reel Jig
