BBC Scotland has re-confirmed to pipes|drums that it has not decided on the World Pipe Band Championships broadcasts, ...

Jimmy Begg, whose handmade sheepskin pipe bags have been played by generations of the world's leading solo pipers and pipe bands, is retiring after more than four decades in the business. Begg ...

Andrew Hayes of Nepean, Ontario, won the 2026 Glengarry Cup, the overall trophy awarded to the contestant by winning the MSR ...

The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has officially elevated Scotland's Royal Burgh of Annan and the USA's Ulster ...

|drums is pleased to present followers with performances by the five prize winners in the March, Strathspey & Reel at the ...

"What would it be like if we played together, and not just stood together?" That's the central question that the new "100% ...

While the hundred or so pipers who pursue such endeavours are still refining their 2025 tunes, the Piobaireachd Society has announced its annual recommendations and requirements for the world’s most ...

Under an expanded program that brings coursework and training online, the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has approved 10 new piping judges and one drumming judge for its panel. The organization ...

Members attending the 2025 annual general meeting of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association soundly defeated a motion to create a new judging format, a move that would have altered a system created ...

Campbeltown, Scotland – September 19, 2026 – By winning the Piobaireachd, Brodie Watson-Massey of Edinburgh won the Willie McCallum Sr. trophy for best overall at the 2026 Springbank Invitational Solo ...

The Glengarry Cup for Professional/Open grade solo pipers continues to bolster its status as one of North America's preeminent competitions, and the 2026 edition on September 26th has attracted ...

Norfolk, Virginia – April 18, 2026 – MacMillan from Washington, DC, won Grade 2 and with it the American Pipe Band Champions title at the annual Virginia International Tattoo & American Pipe Band ...