By Ben Duncan, Assistant Pipe Major • George Watson’s College We are once again delighted to be hosting The Caritas Banner ...

Pipes across the programme: the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, Highland pipes, smallpipes and uilleann pipes at Celtic ...

BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. The first Grant’s Championship, later renamed as the Glenfiddich Championship, was held at Blair ...

BY JEANNIE CAMPBELL MBE. Following the recent publication of the new edition of my Highland Bagpipe Makers book I was made ...

The solo piping competitions for the Mòd Ghlaschu 2026 take place on October 10, with the Junior events held at the City Of ...

The Hundred Percent Collective announces its first performances A pipe band comprised of women from grade 1 pipe bands around ...

Piping and dancing competitors at the highland games held in Poona, India in 1904. (Photo: National Library of Scotland). The following article is reprinted from British Army Review of 1988. We are ...

WILLIAM LAMB discusses the origins of the genre and what he says is its uneasy relationship with the great highland bagpipe The strathspey is undoubtedly the most iconic variety of Scottish ...

This article first appeared as part of the Canadian chapter in: Stuart Allan and David Forsyth, Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War, published by NMS Enterprises, 2014, and republished ...

Today, there is a phenomenal increase in the number of pipers. Whether this is because of the increasing popularity of the instrument or whether it is a natural incremental function of the population ...

The North Tryolean village of Ehrwald in the Austrian Alps. ‘The Green Hills‘ is probably the tune most often heard at a pipe band competition as virtually all bands will play it as part of their ...