While everyone simply aspires to perform as well as they can, knowing who you're competing against is generally accepted as ...

"You can't build a youth band in a straight line. You'll get a handful of standouts, a middle group holding it together and a ...

Alasdair Henderson of Edinburgh emerged as the overall winner of the 2026 Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championships, the 53rd ...

Imagine: winning the MSR at the Glenfiddich Championship and finishing second overall in your first appearance. Winning the Highland Society of London Gold Medal at the Northern Meeting. Winning the ...

Lincoln Hilton of Melbourne, Australia, has emerged as one of the world’s most innovative pipers. Early on, he recognized and harnessed the potential of the Internet to bring his compositions to a ...

At the end of 2024, the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association embarked on a project to rate its panel of approximately 90 judges into A and B categories. The leaders of the world’s largest ...

Alex Gandy on his way to winning his first MacCrimmon Cairn for piobaireachd at the 2026 BCPA Annual Gathering Vancouver – April 3-4, 2026 – Competitors with the last name “Gandy” did very well at the ...

We check in with on the organization, challenges, opportunities and goals for the organization and piping and drumming in ...

Liam Kernaghan of Wellington has been acclaimed, unopposed, for a second two-year term as president of the Royal New Zealand Pipe Band Association, as was Stu McHale, also acclaimed for another ...

[Photo Kim Traynor, Creative Commons] The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has informed the Royal Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing that the “RSPBA Highland Dancing Championship” held in ...

RSPBA judges and administrators prepping for an event. [Alister Sinclair] Some 28 prospective piping, drumming and ensemble judges attended an extensive online training course run by a new-look ...

The second part of our exclusive series of conversations with the musical leaders of the world’s top Grade 1 bands, discussing the construction, orchestration, arrangement, and intentions behind their ...