Inveraray piper Ross Miller: I’m contacting Piping Press with the exciting news that my new tune book ‘The Roke Collection’ is now available to pre-order. The book is available to exclusively through my website until 31st March with the official release date of 30th April. Pre-order supporters will receive their copy prior to the release date. I have also made a video to celebrate one year of my album and the new release featuring…

Ballycoan is a hamlet near the village of Purdysburn on the southern outskirts of Belfast. Despite its rural setting it supports both a flute band (formed in 1951) and a pipe band both of which are private organisations and, unusually, own their own band halls. Aside from the Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, which was formed just half a dozen miles further up the road outside Carryduff, the Ballycoan Pipe…

From the Edinburgh Evening News 1970: ‘Police Pipe Band March to Success’….Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band have won the European [Pipe Band] Chanpionship. Since their formation about 78 years ago they have scored in the major piping competitions and were World Chanpions in 1897, 1919, 1950, 1954, 1963 and 1964. Their present Pipe Major is Iain McLeod and he deserves much of the credit for the outstanding success in recent…

The final instalment today of enhanced piping pictures all courtesy Ronan Maguire former All Ireland Solo Piping Champion and currently a leading member of St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band in Dublin. We are extremely grateful to Ronan for supplying the pictures and making them available for download to Piping Press readers. Use our Search facility to view and download earlier images in this series. Today we begin with P/M JB…

After the recent raft of competition cancellations I hope we can have a period of calm during which summer promoters and their committees stand back and look at the overall picture. They should take on board all the considerable changes to lockdown there will be from next month onwards. Rather than just take the easy way out, approach difficulties with a ‘can do’ outlook. You have a responsibility to the…