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The 2008 World Pipe Band Champions, Simon Fraser University, have confirmed that the band will take the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall stage for the . . .

If the availability of two new full-time paid positions is any indicator, the piping and drumming world might seem recession-proof, as separate . . .

At a meeting of the RSPBA’s Music Board on January 17th, a proposal from the association’s Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch to consider . . .

The piping community in Western Canada lost one of …

The August “Pre-World’s Concert” in Glasgow by 2008 World Champions Simon Fraser University has been expanded . . .

The Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario will introduce the first stages of its Education & Theory program at an introductory . . .

The Piping Live! International Piping Festival will be held for a sixth consecutive year, it was officially announced, with . . .

TenorDrumming.com, a new website aimed at the world’s community of pipe band tenor drummers, has launched, with news, features, forums, and downloads . . .

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The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has denied the appeal to reinstate the Best Bass-Section awards at major . . .

In a move that may mean the end of the Grade 1 Band Club of Sydney, Australia, as a top-tier competing band, pipes|drums has learned that the band’s parent organization has dismissed . . .

Despite the sponsor’s decision to make substantial changes to the Grade 1 Band Club Sydney, members of the group, including Pipe-Major Scott Nicolson . . .

The College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, has started an official search for a new Executive Director to . . .

The 2008 RSPBA Grade 1 Champion of Champions St. Laurence O’Toole of Dublin have launched a new “Friends of the Band” program where supporters . . .

Composer and former member of legendar Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band dies at age 74