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In the 20 years since the annual January Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow launched, Highland piping has generally been in the background, especially when . . .

The ball has dropped on the year that was 2013 in piping and drumming, and the standard we saw in the last 12 months was, without doubt, the greatest ever, so again . . .

Only 13 bands in history have been official World Pipe Band Champions, and the future of one of them, Dysart & Dundonald, is in jeopardy after announcing cancellation of its . . .

The Grade 1 Vale of Atholl Pipe Band has made another leadership change, this time very much planned, with the appointment of Alistair “Bongo” McNab to the role of . . .

The amateur solo piping competitions introduced to the Newark, New Jersey, Metro Express workshops last year by Scotland’s National . . .

Pipe-Major William “Billy” Maxwell, President of Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band and the band’s founding Pipe-Major, died on November 21, 2013. Billy was a giant of a character in piping in Northern Ireland . . .

The famous pipe band personality, Tom Anderson, was feted at a dinner with a large crowd of friends and family at the Riverstone Event Centre in Welland, Ontario, on November 23rd in honour . . .

It’s by far the most prestigious pipe band concert of each year, and in 2014 the annual Pre-World’s show at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall will be by the Great Glasgow Police Scotland Pipe Band, one . . .

Two of the best pipe bands in the United States are combining, with Grade 1 Oran Mor of Albany, New York, and Grade 2 Stuart Highlanders of Massachusetts the latest to . . .

The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland (NYPBoS) is donating proceeds from its St. Andrew’s Day concert on November 30th at the SECC Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow to the Philippines . . .

At a time when many pipe bands around the world struggle to stay afloat from year to year, the fact that the Kirkintilloch Pipe Band of Kirkintilloch, Scotland, celebrated its 125th birthday . . .

As pipes|drums Magazine had predicted based on data from the organization’s survey, the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has announced that the 2014 World Pipe Band Championships will . . .

On the one hand, for once, there was a packed room at the Best Western hotel in Brantford, Ontario, for the November 2nd 2013 . . .

Sixty-two percent of the 226 respondents to the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s survey of bands, judges, stewards, administrators and others said that the 2013 World Pipe Band . . .

Castlecaulfield, Northern Ireland’s favourite pipe band is renaming itself “AughinMOber” during November, as the Grade 2 Aughintober has joined the worldwide Movember drive to . . .