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…

By Andrew Reid I am looking for some help in finding out the regimental tunes of the Highland Light Infantry.  As those who know me well will know, I’m the piper for the Highland Light Infantry City of Glasgow Veterans Association.  They’re a good bunch of lads with a keen interest in the history of the regiment and all to do with it. To this end, I thought it’d be only…

A new archive recording is posted today. It is from US-based Scot Donald McBride. The excerpts Donald has sent are from a recital he made for the BBC in 1997. Donald is pictured above in 1980. Donald is currently resident in Kansas City and recently underwent a serious hand operation. We wish him well and hope he will be back to playing soon. Donald was taught by his father in…