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News: World Drumming, Letters, Highland Dress

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Tickets for the World Solo Drumming at Glasgow Caledonian University on Saturday are free. The Adult Final costs £5. Read more and book here…… A nice leter has been received from Canada. Read here… The second, and final instalment in Bill Blacklaw’s highly informative (and necessary for some!) article on how to wear Highland dress concludes here……  

News: NI Piper of the Year Critique

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This contest, run by the Northern Ireland Piping Society, was held in the ballroom at the Adair Arms Hotel in Ballymena, and despite a hum from the cooler behind the bar, it proved an ideal venue for a piping competition; plenty of floor space, plenty of audience space and a draughtless ambience. There were very few listeners in for the piobaireachd in the afternoon  (not unusual, even in Scotland) but the…

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New Shotts PB Juvenile Contest – Link for Entry

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Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band are pleased to announce the first annual “Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Juvenile Solo Piping and Drumming Championships”. Launched in 2014, this is the first time in the band’s history that we have organised an event of this kind. It is expected that the competition will become an annual event on the juvenile piping and drumming calendar. The band is working in partnership with North…

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