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…
Director Gary Nimmo has sent this…..I’m delighted to be able to confirm today that the ABS Piping School, supported and funded by Achiltibuie Bagpipe Specialists Ltd is due to open on the 1st of February 2019. Led by myself, former schools instructor in both Falkirk and Highland Council Regions, the school is designed to offer a structured learning platform to both develop, nurture and showcase talent in the Falkirk area. With…
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…
RSPBA HQ have published the following: The Music Board met on Saturday 12th January 2019 and approved the third changes for the 2019 season, all changes can be found below: Upgrades January 2019Grade 4B to Grade 4ARothesay & District – by request Downgrades – January 2019Grade 4A to Grade 4B: Ullapool & District – by request New Bands – January 2019Grande Prairie & District Pipes & Drums, Canada, granted Grade…
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