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After a half-century tradition of restricting its pipe bands to only male pipers and drummers, the St. Thomas Episcopal School of . . .

The eighth annual Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival will showcase more than 170 separate events, a new record for the week-long f¨ºte that celebrates world . . .

The annual solo piping championship run by the United States Piping Foundation since 1988 has decided to restrict the event to contestants only from North America. While it is not . . .

A new two-day festival of piping, drumming and Celtic arts has been created in Alberta, marking the first weekend-long event the region has seen on its Highland games . . .

One of North America’s longest-running solo piping competitions has decided to make substantial changes to its format, and the modifications have been met with . . .

While pipe bands are a colourful crowd, a bunch of kilted pipers and drummers playing on stage does not necessarily make a visual . . .

The City of Washington Pipe Band of Washington, DC, has made another leadership change, with long-time snare player . . .

When the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band returns to the el Mocambo Club for its second spring concert on May 21st . . .

Despite the RSPBA’s elimination of the prize in March 2008, the tradition of the awarding the best bass-section in Grade 1 at the World Pipe Band Championship has continued, and the . . .

The Australian Pipe Band Championships are held every two years, traditionally in one of the vast country’s states or . . .

Lewis Turrell, the first non-Scottish winner of a …

After a successful venture into the pipe band concert promotion business with the 2010 show by Boghall & Bathgate . . .

Inspired by pipes|drums’ one-day April Fools spoof story joking that Glasgow City Council was encouraging non-Scottish bands . . .

In another first, the pipes|drums page on Facebook has topped 5,000 “likes,” another milestone for the magazine and the piping and drumming . . .

The always controversial system of admittance for the 60 or so top-level solo pipers applying to the competitions at the Argyllshire Gathering and Northern Meeting in Scotland . . .