About 30 years ago, the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band travelled to Scotland to compete in the World Championships. There was plenty of discussion (and ridicule from other bands) that every band ...

Antrim, Northern Ireland – June 28, 2025 – It was warm and sunny at Antrim Castle Gardens, the venue for the first-ever Antrim & Newtownabbey Pipe Band Championships, the fifth event of the Royal ...

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 ...

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 ...

As in the job world, pipe band members often quit because of management. Modern-day competitive pipe bands need to run as much like a business as a hobby. Yet, pipe band leaders are most often thrust ...

Next in our exclusive 2026 Set Tunes Series by Willie Donaldson is “The Pride of Barra,” a piobaireachd included on the Piobaireachd Society’s list of pieces eligible for submission to the Highland ...

Derek Midgley accepting his overall USPF prize. Baltimore, Maryland – June 18, 2022 – In a tie with Ben McClamrock of Washington, DC broken by the result in the piobaireachd event, Derek Midgley of ...

Glasgow – August 11, 2017 – the 12 bands to qualify for the Grade 1 Final of the 2017 World Pipe Band Championships were determined at Glasgow Green today, with a total of 20 bands vying for the dozen ...

A correction was made on Aug. 30, 2026: we later discovered that Cameron Bonar won the overall trophy after a tie was broken on the better Piobaireachd result. The article was adjusted accordingly and ...

Alasdair Henderson with his winnings at the 2024 Donald MacLeod Memorial with MacLeod’s daughters, Susan (left) and Fiona. [Sandie Maciver] Stornoway, Lewis, Scotland – April 5, 2024 – The 28th annual ...

Callum Beaumont with the overall championship trophy at the 2023 Chatsworth County Fair. solo competitions. Bakewell, England – September 3, 2023 – Hot on the heels of winning both the Clasp and the ...

Greg Wilson with his Hastings winnings. Hawkes Bay, New Zealand – March 30-31, 2024 – Greg Wilson of Tai Tapu, New Zealand, and Palmerston North, New Zealand’s Stuart Easton were the big winners at ...