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With the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s official promotion of Cullybackey to Grade 1, the country of Northern Ireland with its population of 1.7 million has five bands in the premier grade. Cullybackey joins . . .

The 35-year-old St. Louis-based Grade 4 Invera’an Pipe Band and cross-town Grade 4 rivals St. Louis Caledonian Pipe Band have formally decided to combine personnel . . .

The well known piper Colin Craig died on Monday in …

Glenn and Graham Brown have officially become Pipe-Major and Leading-Drummer, respectively, of the Grade 1 Peel Regional Police Pipe Band . . .

The Grade 2 Lomond & Clyde Pipe Band of Glasgow has changed leading-drummers, with Leslie Galbraith taking over the position . . .

The performers at ‘A National Treasure – a celebration of the music of Gordon Duncan’ concert on September 29 at the Perth Concert Hall in Perth, Scotland, have been . . .

After deciding to disband in November 2006, the Polkemmet Pipe Band of Whitburn, Scotland, has reformed, with Derek Marr as . . .

Another new Highland bagpipe-maker has started to do business, but this time with a twist. B&M Pipebags & Bagpipes, located in Whitburn, Scotland, will make . . .

James Stewart and Carl Lenny are the new Pipe-Major and Leading-Drummer of the Grade 1 Windsor Police Pipe Band of Windsor, Ontario, taking over from . . .

Following the success of Kincardine Drums 06, the College of Piping, Summerside, has announced that it will host . . .

The 2007 Canadian Police Memorial Invitational Piping Contest, which was restarted in 2006 after the passing of its original organizer Pat Hayes, will take place again . . .

Junior solo piping competitions will be held for the first time ever at the Edinburgh Mod on September 28th, when the event takes place . . .

The annual general meeting of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario is scheduled for Saturday, November 3rd . . .

Of the dozens of entries to the contest to win tickets to the August 8 Field Marshal Montgomery . . .

Up for grabs: tickets to the ‘After-World’s Shindig’ and dinner for two at the National Piping Centre’s acclaimed restaurant . . .