Willie McCallum was the winner of the Scottish Pipers’ Association Former Winners’ MSR in The National Piping Centre Auditorium on Saturday, April 6, 2024. Some of the competitors pictured in order of playing below are John Dew, Callum Wynd, William Geddes, John Mulhearn, Simon Marshall, Ben Duncan, Andrew Hall and […]
Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe Band is thrilled to announce an evening of Scottish bagpipe music featuring the renowned piper, Willie McCallum, on April 26, 2024. The recital will take place at the exquisite Woodlands Hotel, located just a short distance from Broughty Ferry, the ancestral home of the Mackenzie Caledonian Pipe […]
To mark International Bagpipe Day 2024 we look back at highlights from Glasgow’s International Piping Festival – Piping Live! – in 2022 and 2023. If you are piping anywhere in the world today, record your performance and tag @bagpipenews in your social media to let us see how you are […]
Finlay MacDonald is Director of Piping at The National Piping Centre and that is a role he manages alongside gigs such as piping with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and rock bands Biffy Clyro and Primal Scream. He was one of the first graduates from the BA Piping […]
The winners of the 21st MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards were announced at a celebratory ceremony at Dundee’s Caird Hall on Saturday, December 2. Pipe Major Ross Harvey was on hand to collect the Pipe Band of The Year Award on behalf of Grade 1 World Champions, Peoples Ford […]
The 27th Annual George Sherriff Memorial Invitational will held on on Saturday, November 18 at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario. The competition is organised by the ubiquitous Bob Worrall, who is currently travelling to Scotland to judge at the 50th Glenfiddich Piping Championship this weekend. The George Sherriff Memorial […]
Piping Live! Thursdays are always very busy around the The National Piping Centre and Street Cafe. Heat four of Pipe Idol, and the final, take place on Thursday and no doubt the Street Cafe and NPC auditorium will be packed for both. Get your tickets for the final early, or […]
Next Wednesday at Piping Live! is another day of wall to wall pipe music with something to suit every taste. There are five pipe band performances on Buchanan Street, including the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Pipes & Drums visiting Glasgow for the day, and a Grade 1 pipe band practice […]
On the eve of the Glasgow Uist and Barra Invitational 2023, we look back through the Piping Times archive to the report on the 1990 competition by Jeannie Campbell, and find this was the year that it became an ‘invitational’. It was a year that Glasgow presented it’s cleaned-up, modern, […]
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 […]
