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The annual Winter Storm Competition in Kansas City, Missouri, January 11-13 will break its own entry records for snare competitions outside of the World Solo Drumming in Scotland . . .

The April 1, 2013, amalgamation of the eight existing Scottish police forces into a single “Police Scotland,” and the Strathclyde Police, most famous and successful police pipe band in the world, will remain intact, but under a new name. Strathclyde Police Pipe Band spokesman Iain MacPherson said that the new name for the band has . . .

Bob Worrall is one of the latest members of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario’s Music Committee to resign, according to him “the result of an ongoing lack of trust, support . . .

Two years in development, Xavier Boderiou of Brittany has expanded his offering of self-designed piping products with the introduction of four new pipe chanters, each tailored to a . . .

Since 1906 the Cowal Highland Gathering in Dunoon, Scotland, has offered a major pipe band competition, and until the formalization of a separate event in 1947, was the de facto . . .

When your country is the home of Field Marshal Montgomery, the idea of winning pipe bands could well become commonplace, but not so the Northern Ireland’s government which paid tribute . . .

Great Britain’s Army School of Bagpipe Music & Highland Drumming hopes to raise enough funds to create a memorial for military pipers . . .

The National Piping Centre is organizing the first “Metro Express” series of workshops in New Jersey in mid-February, and has now added amateur solo competitions for Grade 2, 3 and 4 pipers, running . . .

Eighteen-year-old Daniel Parsons was announced the new leading-drummer of the Grade 1 Oran Mor Pipe Band in October, but only two months later has . . .

2012 European and Cowal champions, and one of the most consistently successful top-grade pipe bands in history, Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia of Bathgate, Scotland, has confirmed . . .

Tickets for the often sold-out event go on sale on Friday, December 7th, via the concert hall’s online and in-person box office. “We are delighted to be asked by the Glasgow Skye . . .

The Highland piping innovator Colin Winstanley of …

The Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario, the only large association to allow pipe band judges to consult with each other following events, is surveying its members on their opinion . . .

Another copyright issue is hitting the Highland piping world, as Ayrshire Bagpipes of Troon, Scotland, have been asked by the makers of Qwik Tune guitar tuners to change the name of its recently released ?39 Kwiktune Chanter Stock . . .

A concert by the Canadian Forces Pipes & Drums staged in Edmonton in November has raised more than $2,000 for “Soldier On,” a charity . . .