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With the Grade 1 Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia, tenor drummer Fiona Morris of Kinross, Scotland, is used to being determined to beat . . .

The spirits of many have been dampened after the 2013 Gourock Highland Games were cancelled, nixing the first Scottish outdoor . . .

What a difference a year makes for the storied Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band of Scotland as the historic band enters the 2013 season . . .

After a long, cold, lonely winter, the Scottish outdoor pipe band season gets started across all grades on May 11th and 12th at Dunbar and Gourock . . .

The resurrected and popular Montreal Highland Games & Celtic Festival and its legendary beer tent will not happen in 2013 after . . .

Simon Fraser University Pipe Band leaders Terry Lee and Jack Lee will have more than great . . .

The Kingston Scottish Festival continues to grow to the point of being bigger than at least two other full outdoor Highland games on the Ontario competitive piping and drumming . . .

The ILT City of Invercargill of New Zealand is one of the oldest pipe bands in the antipodes and, with several years in Grade 2, was recently . . .

The tenth anniversary version of the Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping was launched officially with the promise of new venues, including the use of St. Enoch . . .

Skype has been a familiar platform for “e-learning” for pipers and drummers for some time, but the National Piping Centre plans . . .

The Bleary & District Pipe Band of Northern Ireland will return to competition in the 2013 UK season after a seven-year . . .

Andy Ross, one of the most popular chanter reed-makers in piping history, died on April 2, 2013, after a protracted illness . . .

Seven years after it originally implemented it, the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario has eliminated its practice of consultative pipe band judging, a topic of active debate for . . .

Shotts & Dykehead is now officially once again Shotts & Dykehead, as one of the world’s most storied pipe bands has ended its . . .

After months of deliberations, Grade 2 bands in Ontario will be allowed to “challenge up” at select contests, going head-to-head against bands in the top grade ¨C but only if there are three or fewer bands competing in Grade 2, and only where the Grade 1 event . . .