The Ulster-Scots Agency Juvenile Pipe Band are pictured below against the backdrop of the world famous Titanic staircase after performing at ‘Burns by the Lagan’ at the Titanic Belfast.  Included are Keith Gamble (Chairman of Ulster-Scots Agency), Andy McGregor (Pipe Major), David Gilliland (Ulster-Scots Community Network Operations Director) and Ian Crozier (Chief Executive Officer, Ulster-Scots Agency).

By Mrs Wendy Goodall I read your article about music tuition in Scottish schools.  Funnily enough, it is our 10-year-old daughter Kirsten Goodall who features in the picture issued about piping-in the haggis this morning (above). Kirsten is a P6 pupil at Cockenzie Primary School in East Lothian where she is learning to play the pipes in a scheme backed by the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust [SSPDT]. I read the…

The following article was commissioned by PP Publishing for Pipe Band Magazine in 2005. Written and researched by piping historian Jeannie Campbell MBE, it traces the history of ladies’ bands from the 1930s onwards. Today, ladies have taken their rightful place at the top level in pipe bands but it was not always so…. The Braemar Girls’ Pipe Band (above) claimed to be the first girls’ pipe band in Scotland…

Planning for your summer of piping and pipe band music can begin! Today Piping Press publishes our first draft of our Highland games and solo piping contests – the Guide to the Games. Also published is the RSPBA calendar of pipe band events including the five major championships. Pictured top are Canada’s 78th Fraser Highlanders at the Worlds. The Association have split their calendar into monthly sections for convenience. On…