P/M Ben Peterson of Greater Midwest Pipe Band (G2), gives us his take on a hectic competition day at Winter Storm a week or so back, pipers selflessly assisting and supporting drumming colleagues through the whole competition day…… While this event is far more than just the competitions on the Friday, to many, that day at Winter Storm in Kansas City, Missouri, is simultaneously the beginning of the competitive year…
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…
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…
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