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78th Fraser Highlanders from Ontario to Headline World’s Week Concert

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Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band has announced that their ‘pre-Worlds’ concert this year will be headlined by the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band from Canada. The concert is on Wednesday, 12th August 2026 at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. 78th Pipe Major Michael Grey commented, ‘Making music for performance outside of competition is a huge part of what the 78th is about. The band thrives on it and building a…

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Editor’s Notebook: Band Sizes/ Piping Centurions/ SPA Professional/ Duncan Johnstone/ CLASP Results

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I hope the RSPBA AGM devotes a good bit of time to a serious discussion on band sizes…or at least appoints a working group to examine properly the reasons for the decline in the number of pipe bands in Scotland. With only six Grade 1 bands and reductions further down the pecking order, this is not something that should be dismissed lightly under the banner ‘it’s all been tried before…

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RSPBA AGM – Order Paper Analysed

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Our experts have had a trawl through the order paper for the RSPBA’s 95th AGM to be held this Saturday, March 14. This will be a hybrid meeting both online and in-person at Washington Street HQ. All bands who have paid their subs should have received an invite……… The order paper gets off to a bad start – the date on the front cover is 2025. The same applies on page…

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Dysart Drumming Title and Amazing Success

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Last week’s feature on the Dysart had merely suggested their drum corps had won the Worlds in 1975 at Corby, I tried to confirm this through a 2023 publication by a pretty reliable source and found it given as Shotts & Dykehead, writes Iain Duncan However authoritative responses to the original article suggested otherwise, so to confirm this one way or the other I contacted Joshua Baird at RSPBA Headquarters…

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Scottish Schools Championship/ Stirling Junior Solos

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Young musicians from a record-breaking 172 schools across Scotland gathered in Kilmarnock last Sunday for the Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships, marking the largest number of schools ever involved in the event’s 12-year-history, writes Lesley Wilkinson. Held at the William McIlvanney Campus, the Championships welcomed 51 bands and ten quartets from every corner of the country, with 90% of participating schools coming from the state sector. Organised by the Scottish Schools Pipes…

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