Winter Storm Weekend 2024 – The Pipes and Drums Event – is all over now but it has left us with a classic concert recording available online. The concert was opened by Fred Morrison giving a blistering set of tunes on Highland pipes, and goes on to feature many top […]
The Winter Storm 2024 Competition results were announced by The Midwest Highland Arts Fund (MHAF) Board of Directors yesterday evening, January 12 at the Kansas City Marriott – Country Club Plaza Grand Ballroom. The top piping winners were Ben McClamrock winning the Gold Medal for Piobaireachd, Nick Hudson winning the […]
The Winter Storm weekend of competitions, masterclasses and piping concerts began yesterday January 11 and the fun continues all weekend to Sunday, January 14. Organised by Midwest Highland Arts Fund and based in Kansas City at the Marriott Hotel, there are piping and drumming competitions for amateur level and for […]
The Winter Storm weekend came to a conclusion on Saturday, January 14, with a spectacular concert line-up of top class piping and drumming performers. The concert programme lists them as: Alastair Lee; Roddy MacLeod; Callum Beaumont; Dollar Academy Pipe Band; Craig Muirhead; Matt MacIsaac; Stephen Creighton; Jake Jørgensen; Reid Maxwell; […]
The Midwest Highland Arts Fund Winter Storm competitions came to a conclusion yesterday, Friday 13, and the results ceremony was live streamed on Facebook at 2.30am (GMT). The awards ceremony and piping and drumming competitions can watched again on The Piper’s Dojo facebook page here. You can find out more […]
You may be planning a quiet start to daily life in 2023, but a busy January lies in store for those who want to start the year filled with bagpipes. If you are in Scotland, The National Piping Centre is offering weekend tuition for U17 pipers; adult amateur pipers have […]
The Midwest Highlands Arts Fund (MHAF) Board of Directors announces the 20th anniversary of Winter Storm – The Pipes and Drums Event in Kansas City, Missouri, to be held January 11 – 15, 2023. Registration for the 2023 Workshop and the Piping and Drumming Competitions is now open and online here. […]
Author, Richard H. Crawford from New York, USA has published a valuable record of the many pipers of Scottish and Irish regiments who were killed in the First World War. The book, Piper Casualties in the Great War, 1914-1918, is fascinating record, the result of a considerable amount of research. […]
By Stuart Letford for Bagpipe.News Prepare for the long haul regarding the Coronavirus, folks. That was the message from a webinar discussion into the future of piping and pipe bands post-Covid-19. Further, there is a chance there may be no pipe band competitions held in 2021. The webinar took place […]
