We are grateful for these two comprehensive responses to the request for tunes associated with the Highland Light Infantry regiment of the British Army. They followed a request for assistance from Andrew Reid the piper for the regiment’s veterans association. The picture above shows the regiment pipe band parading in Cairo, Egypt, in 1946. Reader David Livingstone: For what it’s worth, my 1932 potted history of line regiments lists HLI…

Pipe Bands South Australia and the RU Brown Piping Society of South Australia have released details of an Australian Solo Piping Championships for light music and associated events in Adelaide on 13 and 14 April 2019. Pipe Bands Australia granted the South Australian branch permission to hold the solo piping championships for light music following the branch’s request for approval of the initiative in commencing the nation’s premier solo piping…

Film producer Alexander Menu has writen to PP: ‘I am contacting you to proudly announce my team and I are working on a European short film about a young bagpiper during the First World War. This has been a passion project of mine for many years. ‘The short film, ‘Sound of the Somme’ is about the last day in the journal of 20-year-old bagpiper James C. Richardson, awarded the Victoria…

After considerable pressure from their membership, the Competing Pipers Association and the promoters of the Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting have rethought their Silver Medal qualiying rules for 2019/2020. The main criticism of the original plan announced only two weeks ago was the lack of consultation before decisions were taken and also the absence of any qualifying event in the southern hemisphere. Read our earlier story here. These now seem…

Canadian piper, writer and composer Michael Grey has published a review of the new children’s book published by Piping Press…. I picked up the new children’s book, Young MacCrimmon and the Silver Chanter as a Christmas present for a (lucky) kid on my list. It’s a rare book that doesn’t gift its reader some new insight or bit of knowledge. Written by Mick Broderick and Robert Wallace and illustrated by Norman Matheson, this children’s book didn’t…