The Weekend Piping Club is a fantastic learning place for new players and those that already play. Aimed at young people aged 17 & under, classes are taught in small groups here at The National Piping Centre in McPhater Street. There are three levels, all of which will run for 12 weeks with the Glasgow […]
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 […]
•Bratach Gorm competitors, 1974, L-R: Iain MacFadyen, Jimmy MacGregor, Hugh MacCallum, Pipe Major Angus MacDonald, Dr Jack Taylor, Kenny MacDonald and Andrew Wright. The top professional pipers in the world will compete for the prestigious Bratach Gorm and a range of other professional events graded Premier, A & B. Juvenile competitors compete for the Jim […]
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