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 ...
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 ...
Aboyne, Scotland – August 5, 2017 – Alan Russell won three of four firsts at the annual Aboyne Highland Games. Games organizer and Piobaireachd Society President Jack Taylor of Aboyne competed in the ...
Kintail Bagpipe Makers, the firm that gained ground under former Peter Henderson manager Greig Sharp in the 1970s and ’80s, has been restarted under Managing Director Peter Weidig, a friend of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Itasca, Illinois – June 16-17, 2017 – Emergency workers and games organizers ordered the Hamilton Lakes grounds of the Chicago Highland Games to be evacuated due to heavy thunderstorms blowing through ...
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 ...
Dunoon, Scotland – August 25, 2017 – Andrea Boyd of Ottawa took the overall trophy in the senior solo piping at the Cowal Gathering against a strong field. She was tied in points with Nick Hudson of ...
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