Next Games - Saturday 2nd September 2023 Peebles Highland Games is the biggest gathering of its kind in the Borders. Events include traditional heavy events, pipe band competition, drum major competition, highland dancing competition, haggis hurling, loads of stalls, fairground rides, plus great food and drink and much more. A great day out held in […]
•Willie McCallum photographed at the 2016 Springbank Invitational. Photo: Derek Maxwell. Eight of the world’s best pipers will be competing at The Springbank Invitational Competition, held at the Argyll Arms Hotel, Campbeltown, Argyllshire, on Saturday, September 16, 2023, commencing 10am. The competition was initiated in 2000 by the Kintyre Piping Society and has been […]
•Glengarry Cup competitors in 2022 with winner Ian K. MacDonald and PPBSO organisers Karine Mayers and Michael Grey. The Glengarry Cup is organised by the Ottawa branch of the PPBSO and it has been awarded since the 1980s when it was donated by the Glengarry Pipe Band. Past winners include Bruce Gandy, Colin MacLellan, Michael […]
The 40th Nicol-Brown Amateur Invitational Contest will be held at St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Rockville, Maryland, hosted in partnership for the first time with the Institute of Musical Traditions. The weekend will begin with a judges’ recital on Friday evening, October 6, followed by the contest and award ceremony on Saturday, October 7. Save the […]
•Pictured from left: Director of Army Bagpipe Music Maj Gordon Rowan MBE, Ross Conner, Cameron May, Steven Gray, Bobby Allen, Jamie Elder, Matt Wilson, Stuart Liddell, Sarah Muir, John Dew, Andrew Ferguson and Colin MacLellan in 2022. Held at Inchdrewer House within Redford Barracks, this event features some of the best solo pipers in the […]
The Fred Morrison and Chris Armstrong recital is in the King Robert Hotel, Bannockburn, Stirling. The event is on Friday, October 13, 7.30pm and tickets are £10 and available on the door. The Stirling Piping Recitals are organised by Craig Muirhead to bring the pipers of the Stirling area together and help create a local […]
The Argyllshire Gathering Trust’s Lochnell Intermediate Piping Championship will take place on Saturday, 21 October. As before, the venue is the chapel at Lochnell Castle, Argyll, by kind permission of the Earl of Dundonald and hosted by his son Lord Archie Cochrane. The competition is by invitation only and features Scotland’s finest pipers aged under […]
•2022 winners Callum Beaumont and Willie McCallum. Photo by Derek Maxwell The Glenfiddich Piping Championship is set to celebrate its 50th edition at the spectacular Blair Castle on Saturday 28th October 2023, with tickets on sale now. Ten of the world’s greatest solo pipers, chosen from a list of qualifying events, will compete in the prestigious […]
Return is a piece for four speaking voices, a string quartet, two pipers and two drummers. It’s an exploration into where long poem, ritual theatre and ceremony meet. It weaves together and layers up text, music and performance as a celebration of the wheel of the year, of emerging and receding, and the common ground of […]
Join the NPC Adult Gatherings in 2023 The National Piping Centre is bringing you a series of Adult Gatherings in 2023 for pipers aged 18+, which have been designed to give a fantastic social learning experience. This year we will be running in person workshops as well as online events. The dates for our 2023 […]
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