With a cold start at Glasgow Caledonian University, the first competitors in Adult and Juvenile contests started their long road to glory at 9am this morning. Organisers have been in situ from several hours earlier and there were warm ups going on from 8am, and slightly earlier. In the earliest qualifiers, big names like Blair Brown, Steven Creighton, recent runner-up Mikey McKenna and reigning Champion Steven McWhirter, took their chances to…

Organiser Bob Worrall reports….Countdown to the 23rd Annual George Sherriff Memorial Invitational on November 17. It will be held in St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, Ontario. All the details with regard to competitors, their bio’s, times, location, adjudicators, etc. are all available on the website. Last year’s competitors and judges are pictured above. ‘The Sherriff’ gives top amateur players a taste of what it’s like to play at a major professional…

The current European and Scottish Pipe Band Champions St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band from Dublin have sent this…. On Saturday 27th April 2019, St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band will once again take to the Armagh City Hotel stage to showcase their critically acclaimed concert ‘Turas Ceoil’. Having performed the concert to a sellout crowd of over 2,100 people last August, the show has received many rave reviews. Following numerous enquiries, SLOT have…

This article is part of the PP build up to Saturday’s World Solo Drumming to be held in Glasgow Caledonian University from 9am. The following interview comes to us courtesy the RSPBA and their official magazine ‘Pipe Band’. It is from the year 2000 when Jim Kilpatrick, then of Shotts & Dykehead, won his 12th World Solo title. The above picture shows Jim and the coveted World Solo Drumming trophy….. JIM…