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Editor’s Notebook: Inveraray Outstanding in 2024/ PS Summer School/ Bob’s Funeral/ Aberdeen Piping Society/ Ken’s Pipes

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Looking back over the past 12 months it is hard to escape from the fact that the outstanding pipers and band of 2024 are Stuart Liddell, Alasdair Henderson and Inveraray. Coupling success on the band field with that on the solo board is rare, yet only a few days after winning their third World Championships P/M Liddell and P/Sgt Henderson were excelling at the highest level taking major awards at…

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Get the Max in Jax! Florida Pipe & Drum Academy Registrations Open

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The 2025 Florida Pipe and Drum Academy is now open for registration, reports Director Chris McKeown. The school will be held from 16 – 21 February in Jacksonville. Sunday 16th at 6pm is the meet and greet at Holiday Inn Express, 13934 Village Lake Cir, Jax, Florida 32258. Holiday Inn Express is the host hotel. Hotel group rate here. Classes cost only $600 for a week of world class instruction. They…

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How ‘Mull of Kintyre’ Became the Biggest Selling Bagpipe Song of All Time

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A new book on the music of Paul McCartney contains much revealing detail on the origination, recording and promotion of his song ‘Mull of Kintyre’ featuring the Campbeltown Pipe Band and their Pipe Major Tony Wilson……. There was one song in particular that had been tugging on Paul’s imagination for at least three years and that he now had an urge to complete. That song, Mull of Kintyre, its melody,…

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Editor’s Notebook: RSPBA Majors/ Brittany/ Angus Recital/ Scots College/ NZ Drums

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I understand an announcement on the fifth major pipe band championship is imminent. The smart money is on the town of Dumfries and the month June. All unconfirmed of course. Ulster bands, none too happy with the 2025 UKs being on the 12th of July (Ingliston), can be cheered – a ferry hop to Stranraer and a drive along the A75 will bring them to the 2025 British Pipe Band…

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News from Across the Water: Derry-Londonderry to Host All Irelands/ RSPBANI AGM/ Tartan Dander

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Next year’s All Ireland Pipe Band Championships will be coming to Derry-Londonderry on 5th July 2025. Surprisingly, but none the less welcome, the announcement came from the Executive Office of the Northern Ireland Assembly This underlines that they consider it a significant event in the region’s cultural and tourism calendar and means there will be financial backing for the event. The venue is the city’s Ebrington Square, a public space…

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