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 ...

All of us, in Scotland at least, no matter how old or how young, have lived our piping lives almost totally immersed in an atmosphere of competition. If we do not (or did not) take part as contestants ...

Thirty talented musicians selected from across Scotland for SSPDT’s first-ever All-Girls Pipe Band Thirty of Scotland’s most ...

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 ...

Gordon Mooney, a founder member of the Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society, once joked, “When asked why the bagpipe had drones, the old piper replied, “Well, without the drones you might as well play the ...

Today we begin an occasional series looking at the stories behind some of our well known tunes. We kick off with Pibroch of Donald Dubh, an old tune that was originally a pibroch but which was ...

On Saturday, 25 August, 2007 a four-metre high cross of Scottish granite was unveiled near the small town of Zonnebeke, Belgium: a memorial to the 560,000 Scots who fought and the 126,000 who fell ...