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A giant of the pipe band world passes away at age 75.

With most schools it’s a championship sports team that students rally around and, while Dollar Academy also loves its athletics, it’s the championship pipe band that is . . .

A pioneer of pipe band bass drumming, a legendary member of the Boghall & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band, and the man for which ‘The Big Road Brusher’ was named, passes away at age 75.

As part of its sponsorship of the Street Caf¨¦ at Piping Live!, pipes|drums Magazine has announced that it will bring four of the world’s greatest Pipe-Major and Leading-Drummer combinations in a free one-hour “ipes+Drums” concert beginning at 2 pm sharp on Wednesday, August 10th outside of the National Piping Centre . . .i

Earlier this year, pipes|drums featured a profile story on the retirement of long-time R.G. Hardie & Co. Craftsman Duncan Campbell, who has made . . .

Ottawa’s Sons of Scotland, Canada’s oldest civilian pipe band, will perform for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ¨C William and Kate ¨C when the newly . . .

Another long winter of hard practice has passed, and the pipe band outdoor competition season is poised to begin this weekend, with . . .

In “Sweet Home Alabama” Lynyrd Skynyrd asked, Does your conscience bother you? The Grade 4 Alabama Pipes & Drums are . . .

The Rocky Mountain Pipe Band of Calgary is the latest Grade 2 band to struggle with numbers, and has decided not to . . .

Darleen Milloy (nee Miharija) of Vancouver died on …

The town of Dumbarton, Scotland, will once again host the Scottish Pipe Band Championships, the first of the RSPBA’s . . .

The popularity of “other” bagpipes over the last 20 years is being realized at a games that would typically cater only to the Highland piping competitions . . .

The Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band returned to the legendary el Mocambo Club in downtown Toronto for the second straight year to perform a two-hour . . .

Those planning to attend the week-long events preceding the 2011 World Pipe Band Championships will need to set aside a little more money, as another major pipe . . .

The event that many credit with sparking the idea for a week-long festival of piping and drumming during the week preceding the World Pipe Band . . .