Category: Pipe Music

Piping in WW2: Heroes of the Scottish Pipers’ Association

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The second excerpt from Jeannie Campbell’s history of piping 1939-1945 which first appeared in Pipe Band magazine in 2007……. During the war years the Scottish Pipers’ Association continued to meet in Glasgow and to run their amateur/juvenile competitions. At the beginning of the War, Malcolm MacLean Currie was the Association Secretary. The full committee is pictured above in 1936. Malcolm Currie had served during the First World War as P/M…

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A Tune from James Duncan Mackenzie/ Jimmy McIntosh Scholarship Details

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We asked Lewis-based James Duncan Mackenzie if he would be prepared to play something from his new book for us. We were delighted to receive the following video of James, an expert piper, playing the first tune in the book, the 2/4 march, Katie Mackenzie of Dingwall. We hope you enjoy this exclusive for PP readers and thank you James and Katie: The ‘James Duncan Mackenzie Collection’ features 52 pipe…

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Piper Eilidh’s Trust Helps Youth Music Groups Bounce Back from Pandemic

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Youth music groups across Scotland grappling with the continued effects of the pandemic have been awarded funding to support their safe return to teaching by the charity set up in memory of Manchester Arena victim, piper Eilidh MacLeod. The bodies benefiting include the Lewis and Harris Piping Society, Mallaig and Ardnamurchan Pipe Band and Castlebay School Pipe Band. The money is for local youth music initiatives to safely return to…

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Piping During WW2: Home and Abroad the Music Continued Regardless

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The current hiatus in piping activity, more particularly in pipe band activity, has been likened to a similar fallow period during WW2. What was it like then? In this series piping historian Jeannie Campbell investigates and finds that there was much more going on than might be imagined…. Pipers took their traditions with them wherever they were stationed. A Highland Games was held on the North African shores of the…

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Piper James Duncan Mackenzie, Lewis, Releases Book of Own Compositions

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Lewis piper James Duncan Mackenzie has released a book featuring 70 of his own tunes for pipes and other instruments. It includes tunes which have already become popular in both the pipe band and folk music scenes, writes Katie Mackenzie. The ‘James Duncan Mackenzie Collection’ features 52 pipe compositions, including tunes such as Smelling Fresh and Willie Bucach Macleod of Stornoway, and 18 tunes that go outside the range of…

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