Meghan Trainor wrote a great song called “All About That Bass.” In the pipe band world, however, the bass drum is more like the movie Highlander: there can be only one, or sometimes two, if you’re ...

Next in our exclusive 2026 Set Tunes Series by Willie Donaldson is “The Sister’s Lament,” a relatively popular tune among more seasoned piobaireachd competitors. About “The Sister’s Lament,” Willie ...

After the thousands of entries were assessed, Shawn Tobin of Nepean, Ontario, was the ONLY one to get the top six Grade 1 at ...

Inverness, Scotland – September 4, 2026 – Callum Beaumont of Guardbridge, Scotland, won the 2026 Clasp, the most prestigious non-invitational award in the solo piping world. It was his sixth win (2012 ...

Inverness, Scotland – September 3, 2026 – Calum Brown of Peterculter, Scotland, won the 2026 Highland Society of London Gold Medal on the first day of the two-day 2026 Northern Meeting at Eden Court ...

The 2026 Pipe-Major Alasdair Gillies Memorial Challenge Recital was another spectacular night of incredible musical creativity and technical brilliance by five of the world’s greatest Highland pipers.

Inverness is set for two packed days of top-flight solo piping as the 2026 Northern Meeting brings the world’s leading players together for the most prestigious non-invitational gathering on the ...

Angus Nicholson, previous winner of the Raasay Restitution Dance Music event. The Raasay Restitution Competition at the Raasay House Hotel, Isle of Raasay, Scotland, on September 5th is one of the ...

Oswald “Ozzie” Reid, whose decades as a pipe-major, teacher, judge, and administrator made him one of the more influential figures in the development of piping and pipe bands in the western United ...

Wilson Young outside RSPBA headquarters, Glasgow 1991. [Photo pipes|drums] Wilson Young, the legendary former Red Hackle leading drummer, World Solo Drumming Champion and highly influential ...

Glasgow – August 30, 2026 – Kyle Shead of Glasgow won the Competing Pipers’ Association’s Bronze Medal for Piobaireachd, held at the National Piping Centre’s Otago Street branch. By winning, Shead ...

William Lyons died following a short illness on August 28, 2026. Born on May 27, 1940, he learned to play the bagpipes as a boy with the Corbet Pipe Band, just outside Banbridge in County Down, ...