Category: Pipe Bands

PP Editor’s Blog: Worlds/ International Conf./Lochaber/ SFU etc

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Forecast for today’s G1 Worlds qualifying is for a dull day with a maximum temperature of 15degs; no sun. Tomorrow is much better with sunny intervals, particularly late afternoon and again a high of 15 degs. We’ll have full reports on the qualifying and on the Juvenile and Grade 1 competitions in the days to come so stay tuned to Piping Press for the best and most informed comment from…

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Review: SFU Pipe Band at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Worlds Week 2015

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By Robert Wallace Central to the success of last night’s concert of pipe band music given by Simon Fraser University was the clarity and purity of sound from their pipes. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall rang with the timbre of their chanters, their perfect note intervals, the harmonic breadth of the drones. Had the band stood on stage for a couple of hours playing ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’ complete with…

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New Fund to Help RSPBA Juvenile and Novice Juvenile Pipe Bands

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A new fund to assist RSPBA Novice Juvenile and Juvenile Pipe Bands has been launched. The National Juvenile Pipe Band Fund will be administered by the RSPBA. It follows a detailed proposal put to the Association’s Board of Directors by Robert Wallace, the Editor of Pipe Band Magazine, and has been generously supported in the first instance by Mr James Cameron Stuart, a former piper with the Vale of Atholl…

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Piping Live/ Silver Chanter/ Worlds

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Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival got off to a stormy start yesterday but the weather didn’t affect the performance or the enthusiasm of the New Zealand Police Pipe Band, who travelled 11,000 miles to compete at the Worlds on Saturday and to play at the festival. They are pictured above with new P/M, Northern Ireland’s Emmet Conway. Over the next four days the band will perform at various points throughout the…

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Ed Neigh 1945 – 2015

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By Robert Wallace One of the true pioneers of North American piping and pipe bands, Ed Neigh, has passed away aged 71. Though his death was sudden, his health in the past few years had not been the best.  This, however, did not deter him from his piping, and he continued to teach both privately and at summer schools as long as he was able. Ed was also in constant demand as…

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