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Now in its 33rd year, the William Livingstone Sr. Memorial Invitational Solo Piping Competition will see eight competitors participate in the . . .

It always seems both like a long, cold wait and an event that comes up on bands quickly, but the traditional opening of the UK outdoor . . .

Neil Cranston, a snare drummer in the Boghall …

Almost a year to the day after introducing his carbon-fibre snare drums at the 2009 Toronto Indoor Games, inventor Terry Cleland . . .

The youngest piper so far in the growing Vancouver Lee family piping dynasty is still over-the-moon after having his original tune chosen . . .

In what may mark the first time that a Scottish-based piping society or association has conducted an overseas membership drive in-person, the Edinburgh-based Eagle Pipers Society will sign up new members when society . . .

After only a year in Grade 3, the Burnett’s & Struth Pipe Band’s application to move to Grade 2 has been officially approved by the Music Board of . . .

More than 30 accredited judges from the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario, as well as several from as far afield as . . .

In its 160 years as a music club, Toronto el Mocambo Tavern has probably never had a pipe band stage a concert . . .

The world’s only bagpipe- and curling-playing Olympian, Eve Muirhead, officially opens the eighth annual Piping Live! International Piping Festival in Glasgow . . .

In another blow to the Ontario piping and drumming competition circuit, the popular Montreal Highland Games has cancelled all piping and drumming contests at its 2010 event, reportedly for financial reasons. The games have opted . . .

Last year the piping legend Bill Livingstone released Northern Man, his most ambitious solo project that was three years in the making. Now, after a 45-year piping hiatus, he returns to . . .

Premier Music International of England has launched a full line of pipe band drums, including bass and tenor models . . .

The 2010 Scottish Pipe Band Championships at Dumbarton, Scotland, will once again kick off the major events of the UK pipe band season, with more than 130 bands entered to compete across all grades . . .

We are sad to report the passing of William MacDon …