World Solo Drumming Preview and New Events at Balmoral Classic

World Solo Drumming & International Juvenile Tenor Solo Competition… Choking on his Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, MacStig was taken aback by the sheer volume of entrants for the Adult snare qualifiers as reported on PP. The conclusion must be that snare drumming is in great health and the increased numbers in snare lines in the upper grades (10-12 is now normal), is well reflected in the sheer scale of entries for…

World Solo Drumming Draw

The RSPBA has published the draw for the World Solo Drumming and International Tenor Drumming competition to be held in Glasgow Caledonian University on Oct 21. A huge entry of over 50 side drummers  have put their names forward for the Adult section: Adult – Heat 1 01 09:00 Simon Grant – Denny and Dunipace 02 09:08 Gurvan Sicard – Inveraray and District 03 09:16 David Clark – ILT City…

World Solo Drumming – An Interview with Maestro Jim Kilpatrick MBE

Saturday sees the RSPBA’s World Solo Drumming Championship being held in Caledonian University in Glasgow. As a warm up for that event, and as a possible assist to competitors, we run the following interview with master drummer Jim Kilpatrick MBE, the record winner of the top title, and now retired after a wonderful pipe band and solo drumming career. The interview comes to us courtesy the Association and their official magazine…

PP Editor’s Blog: City of Edinburgh Police PB/Donald MacDonald Quaich/World Solo Drumming etc.

Yesterday I mentioned the City of Edinburgh Police Pipe Band under P/M Ian MacLeod and I wonder if anyone can give us the names of the individuals in this shot taken of the band with multiple trophies in the early 1970s. Email them please, to pipingpress@gmail.com. The history of the band and its sorry demise was given in great detail in a series of three features in the Pipe Band magazine…

PP Editor’s Blog 3/1/15

[wds id=”2″] I hope everyone is enjoying the free download of Pipe Band magazine. Couple of missing things. The names of the two brothers on the front cover (below) are Marcus and Matthew Wenlock from Cullybackey, Northern Ireland, and very well done to them. Two World Champions in the same family is some going by any estimation. Moving on to the adults, here’s a recording of Steven McWhirter and Stuart…