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The Music Board of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has made a policy change that will see the elimination of awards for Best Bass-Section at . . .

The world’s bass- and tenor-drummers are rising up in an attempt to persuade the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association to rescind its decision to eliminate Best Bass-Section . . .

The fall-out from the RSPBA’s decision to discontinue awarding Best Bass-Section prizes at major championships continues unabated, with allegations that the association might have tried to work the motion through . . .

Funeral in Oban at 10 am, March 28th

The Piobaireachd Society has revealed the tunes set for the major competitions in 2009, and the lists include mostly well known pieces of ceol mor . . .

Within a day of each other, two spring piping and drumming events in the Toronto area have been cancelled due to lack . . .

The popular Malahide International Festival of Piping & Drumming has been cancelled reportedly due to financial problems . . .

The RSPBA has decided to keep the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, despite a strong bid from the city of Belfast, according to sources. The two cities competed for the competition, which has been . . .

Since the early 1990s the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band held a one-day workshop that typically strived top attract individual pipers and drummers, each one signing up for various classes with members of . . .

The Brittany-based piper Patrick Molard will release his second compact disc of piobaireachd in the next few weeks, with the album containing several tunes that have never before . . .

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) has delivered its assignments to its panel of adjudicators, and the list introduces several . . .

After only a few months retired from solo competition, Colin MacLellan of Edinburgh has resumed making chanter reeds, and has already supplied many pipers and several bands. The new business, PipeReeds.com, specializes . . .

The Grade 1 Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band of New Zealand has finalized an endorsement deal with the St. Kilda Group of Glasgow that will see the band covered for at least three . . .

After almost 30 years of being run by the John MacFadyen Memorial Trust, the Silver Chanter Invitational Piping Competition will be organized by the Isle of Skye Piping Society . . .

2006 World Solo Drumming Champion Steven McWhirter and 2007 Clasp-winner Stuart Liddell will join several piping and drumming friends in April to walk the 95-mile-long West Highland Way to raise funds for the Novice Juvenile-grade . . .