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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iain MacDonald (Regina) reports from the epicentre of piping (and drumming) . . . Piping Live! officially began on Sunday with the Masters competition, but Monday morning is when the full festival ...

Glasgow – August 10, 2026 – The first heat of Piping Live!’s 2026 Pipe Idol competition was won by Liam Nicolson of Melbourne, Australia, chosen by an unidentified group of three judges to go through ...

Air travel with Highland pipes can be fraught with anxiety. Knowing airlines’ policies, rules, and procedures – and your rights as a musician-passenger – can mitigate the risk of having your delicate ...

Lorient, Brittany, France – August 2-3, 2026 – Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, won the 44th annual MacCrimmon Trophy for solo piping across Scottish, Irish and Breton events at the massive ...

Ward Park was the venue for the 2026 Ulster Pipe Band & Drum Major Championships, and it was Ireland's Manorcunningham that won the overall Grade 2 title with eight out of a possible eight firsts from ...

Newtonards, Northern Ireland – July 19, 2025 – The Regent House Playing Fields were the venue for the 2025 Ards & North Down Championships, organized by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association ...

Cameron Bonar on his way to winning the 2025 MacCrimmon Cairn for Piobaireachd. [Photo Andrew MacDonald] Delta, British Columbia—April 18-19, 2025—Seventeen-year-old Cameron Bonar of Surrey British ...

Blair Brown competing in the 2025 Pacific Rim Solo Drumming Championships in Vancouver, which he also won. Hamilton, Ontario—April 12, 2025—Blair Brown was the decisive overall winner, taking both ...