Organiser Margaret Dunn has sent this: Below is a link to the CLASP announcement of two new remote competitions. The first competition date announced is for 20th June – which will end 2019/2020 CLASP season. The second competition date is 8th August . This remote competition will replace the annual ‘World Solo Amateur Piping Competition’ at Piping Live, which runs as part of Glasgow International Piping Festival and traditionally starts each CLASP…

I had a good corps at St Joseph’s and we were in Grade 1 but we’d lost a lot of pipers and we struggled for three or four years  until 1998, playing locally in the All Irelands and at the Worlds a couple of times. We didn’t do so well, always around the bottom.  Then Johnny Keogh left the O’Tooles and Dean Hall from Australia took over and one night…

Composer, arranger and piper Craig Muirhead is offering copies of his popular bagpipe arrangement of ‘Over the Rainbow’ in return for a donation to the National Health Service. Craig writes: ‘I did a wee arrangement of the famous Judy Garland song from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ and it’s on my Facebook page. It’s had a lot of attention and requests for the music. ‘Would it be possible to mention in…

In the first excerpt of his interview Stephen Creighton, Leading Drummer of the World Championship winning St Laurence O’Toole corps, talked of sweeping the boards in Grade 2 at the 1990 Worlds with the St Joseph’s band. But now he wanted more…… We were asked to go to Grade 1 the following season by our own association [the Irish Pipe Band Association] but we chose not to because we didn’t feel…

Helen Urquhart of the NPC has sent this… The Board of The National Piping Centre is delighted to announce that Steven Blake (above) has been appointed to the role of Director for The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland. As the new director of The NYPBoS, Steven brings his wealth of performance, composition and recording experience to this challenging role.  Steven, a graduate of our piping degree, is a hugely…