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The Grade 4 Wake & District Public Safety Pipes & Drums of Raleigh, North Carolina, has made known to the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association that it intends to move up . . .

Series of mobile applications promise basic introduction to the playing and music of Highland pipes . . .

The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton is taking an unusual interest in the classical music of the Highland pipe . . .

Following the 2014 UK pipe band season, the Grade 1 ScottishPower Pipe Band will be without Leading-Drummer Barry Wilson, who confirmed to pipes|drums that he will retire after 12 years with the band . . .

The keyboardist who co-wrote and played on “Alive and Kicking” and many other hits with the 1980s Scottish pop group Simple Minds will put words into action . . .

Former Clan Gregor Pipe Band Pipe-Major George Shepherd is leading a new band in the Melbourne area built on the four-years-dormant Grade 1 Nunawading Pipe Band / Australia Highlanders . . .

First band in the top grade to “take delivery” of a complete set of carbon fibre drums designed and produced by Cleland Instruments . . .

Cameron Drummond has been made the new Senior Piping Instructor at Fettes College in Edinburgh, one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious “public” schools . . .

Change of pace for the southern California contest and first trip of its kind for Glasgow-based band . . .

The RSPBA’s proactive upgrading of the Stuart Highlanders to Grade 1 will be put to an interesting test on May 17th . . .

The RSPBA has, unsolicited, upgraded the Stuart Highlanders of Massachusetts to Grade 1, the band recently learned after entering for the 2014 World Pipe Band Championships in Grade 2 . . .

One of the world’s most successful and famous bands will change its name after gaining a “substantial” two-year monetary sponsorship. It will be the Peoples Ford Boghall & Bathgate Caledonian Pipe Band for . . .

The Western United States Pipe Band Association’s Golden Jubilee Collection of 90 original compositions . . .

The renowned piper Bruce Gandy has now launched his own modern version with custom video and audio downloads of lessons of his own popular compositions . . .

Donald Lindsay of Glasgow innovates with adjustable chanter printed by the latest gizmo thingmee.