Month: February 2018

World’s Week: St Laurence O’Toole to Star at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

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Promoters Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band have officially confirmed that St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band from Dublin  will headline the 2018 ‘pre-Worlds’ concert at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday, 15th August 2017. ‘We are once again thrilled to host yet another of the world’s greatest pipe bands for the pre-Worlds concert,’ said Kurt Mackintosh (left) of the Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band. ‘In addition to being one of…

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Young Pipers and Drummers Film/ Jack Joins South Florida Academy/ Balmoral Schools Schedule

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Organisers of the European Pipe Band Championships ‘Piping at Forres’ are creating a short film featuring young pipers and drummers. The film will include interviews with the under 25s explaining how and why they got involved in a band. The documentary will be used to promote the European Pipe Band Championships which will be held in Forres for the last time in June 2018 after a six-year run in the Moray…

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PP Ed's Blog: Alasdair at the Games/ MacDonald Mem./ Indian Lady Piper/ Masters of Piobaireachd/ Corby Change

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Our Guide to the Games is proving very popular even after only one day. It gives me the opportunity of running the picture above from the collection of reader Duncan Watson. It is of a young Alasdair Gillies playing at Cawdor Castle games in the 1980s. Alasdair was a supporter of the games even after he achieved what you might call piping’s equivalent of superstar status. Too many of our…

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Guide to the Games/ Pipe Band Drum Corps Recordings from 1970

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The  Piping Press Guide to the Games 2018 is published today. It is based on that of the Scottish Highland Games Association and we are grateful to them for the information. Apart from the dates, this list does not profess to be complete or totally accurate. We have done our best with the available information.  The list has been published as early as possible to allow pipers and enthusiasts to plan…

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New Internet Piping & Pipe Band Radio Show/ Worlds 2017 Final Gallery of Pix

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A new internet radio piping programme, The Piping Hour, has been launched in the US. The host is piper Steve Rooklidge, the man behind the Shasta Piping Society in California, sponsors of the popular piobaireachd composing competition. The show is available here on KKRN with tomorrow (14/2/18) the first run. One of the first tunes to be heard is Hugh MacCallum playing the Lament for Mary MacLeod. The station’s mission…

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