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% ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pipe-Sergeant Mike Cusack has retired from the Grade 1 St. Thomas Alumni Pipe Band of Houston, and longtime member and fellow Northern Meeting Clasp winner Nick Hudson has accepted the role effective ...

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 ...

Harry McNulty, one of the pipe band world’s most accomplished and widely respected figures, died on September 8, 2026, at the age of 93. A successful pipe-major with both the Lothian & Borders Police ...

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 ...