This year’s Masters Competition will take place at The National Piping Centre, McPhater Street, Glasgow on August 14. The Piping Convener for the competition has for many years been James Beaton who has decided to step down from this role. It has been widely regarded as a very well organised […]
Malin Lewis is a graduate of the RCS Piping Degree course and is a very busy young musician. Malin spoke to Finlay MacDonald on The Piping Show about early piping tuition in Ardnamurchan, being a young pipe maker and specialising on the Lindsay system chanter, a trip to Finland to […]
Piping Live! – Glasgow International Piping Festival is excited to announce a 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, and be part of the 20th edition of the world’s biggest […]
Piper, composer and visual artist Mairearad Green spoke to John Mulhearn for the latest episode of The Piping Show. Mairearad, originally from Achiltibuie, has pipes as her first instrument and was taught by Norman Gillies, but also plays accordion, piano and sings in various combinations in the Scottish traditional music […]
The Scottish Pipers’ Association Juvenile Competition takes place on this coming Saturday, March 18, at The National Piping Centre Otago Street in Glasgow’s west end. The venue will be open from 8.00am and the first competitions, for Under 13s, begin at 8.30am. The draw for the day is below and […]
Join the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland on April 2, 2023, at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The concert will feature special guests Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton. The NYPBS is a charitable project ran by The National Piping Centre, to create unique individual […]
The Duncan Johnstone Memorial Competition will take place this Saturday, March 11, in both of The National Piping Centre venues. The B Grade competitions will start at 9.00am at Otago Street in the west end, and the C Grade at McPhater Street in the city centre, also at 9.00am. The […]
Day 20 of the February Piping Challenge saw Dr Andrew Bova dispense advice on how to build stamina in your playing at this time of the year. At 6pm tonight, February 21, Dan Nevans will give a presentation on perfecting your pipe band attack. This will be available to watch on […]
Margaret Houlihan, Willie McCallum, Finlay MacDonald and Dan Nevans have presented videos on a variety of subjects over the previous week in the February Piping Challenge. Willie and Dan gave talks on aspects of performance and preparing for competition, with Margaret, Finlay and Dan the chatting about the technique of […]
The National Piping Centre’s Junior competition took place today, February 18, in both of the NPC venues in Glasgow city centre and the west end. The full results were as follows: OVERALL WINNERSChanter Champion: Ruby WarrenU15 Novice Champion: Fraser HamiltonU18 Junior Champion: Hector Finlayson CHANTER/MARCH CHANTER/SLOW AIR U15 MARCH U15 STRATHSPEY & […]
