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Entries for Kingdom Thistle Solo Piping & Drumming Championship 2018

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Kingdom Thistle Pipe Band Supplies have announced details of their 2018 piping and drumming championship. Click below to download entry form: Kingdom Thistle 2018 Solo Entry Pack The organisers: ‘Please note, Kingdom Thistle, in conjunction with RSPBA Dundee, Perth & Angus Branch, will host the first RSPBA Adult World Solo Drumming Semi Final Qualifying Heat on the qualification circuit as well as our normal Open Solo Drumming Championship. YOU CAN…

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PP Ed's Blog: South Florida/ Donald McBride/ Crossgare/ Burns Night/ Colin MacLellan

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Noah Morrissette of the South Florida Pipe & Drum Academy: Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a fantastic holiday. It seems to be quite cold everywhere. Here in South Florida we’re experiencing highs in the mid 70s all week. We hope all of our students and instructors living in the north and in Scotland are keeping warm. I bet you’re counting the days until you get to come to…

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Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band to Receive Special 'Irish Oscars' Music Award

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Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band are to receive the 2018 Special Award at the Irish language television channel TG4’s traditional Irish music awards, ‘Gradam Ceoil’, the Ulster Star newspaper has reported. The Lisburn-based band will be presented with the award at the Gradam Ceoil concert and awards ceremony at Belfast Waterfront on Sunday, February 4, which will be broadcast live. The paper reports: ‘Widely regarded as the Oscars of Irish…

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PP Academy: Three Experts Offer Advice on How to Play Reels

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Piping Press is a free resource for all pipers and pipe bands. Our aim is to educate, inform and entertain. Our learning pages, under the banner of PP Academy, have lots of advice and knowledge on how to be a better piper or band and cover all aspects of performance and tuning. Click on the highlighted PP Academy link above or the Tuition tab at the top of this page…

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PP Ed's Blog: Reflections on NZ/ Silver Medal Tunes/ SPA AGM/ Schools Trust Job

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Reflecting on my recent visit to New Zealand I really must doff the bonnet to all those pipers who, over many years, have made the long trek to the Northern Hemisphere to compete at Oban and Inverness (and bands who get the cash and time together to do the same to compete at the Worlds). Only when you’ve done it do you really appreciate the commitment required – and it…

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