Over 200 young pipers and drummers competed today in Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band’s Junior Championship. Events covered chanter, 13 & Under, 15 & Under and 18 & Under piping and drumming. The competition was held in Calderhead High School, Shotts. Judges were all drawn from the ranks of currently competing pipers. The competition is jointly promoted by North Lanarkshire Council and the band. Prizes on offer included full…

This article headlined ‘A Few Words for Novices’ is from ‘Piping and Dancing’ magazine of December 1935. Eighty-four years may have passed since it was written but the author’s advice still holds true today…… My last article was written with not a few misgivings. One naturally hesitates before giving advice of any kind to pipers – even to novices. Most pipers hold very definite and hard and fast ideas on…

The RSPBA Music Board has added a handful of new tunes to the lists of those available for Grade 4A, 4B and Novice A & B for the 2020 season. One tune Dora MacLeod has been added erroneously, it seems, to the two-parted strathspey lists. The new tunes are three 2-part marches, three 2-part strathspeys and one 4-part strathspey. The marches: ‘Coppermill’, ‘Corn Rigs are Bonny’ and the ‘White Cockade’. The…

Scots Guards Club Knockout, next round is tomorrow, Sunday 24 November. John Dew and Lewis Russell are the pipers. 4pm start at the SG Club, 2 Clifton Terrace, Haymarket, Edinburgh; tickets £5.00 Pies on sale at interval.

The promoters of next summer’s European Pipe Band Championships in Inverness have sent this release. The local City of Inverness band are pictured above at the 2019 March Past… Hundreds of pipe bands and thousands of pipers, drum majors and Highland dancers will be heading to Inverness again in June for Piping Inverness 2020, incorporating the European Pipe Band Championships. Tickets for the event go on sale at 9am today…