Warm up those Pipes for the Celtic New Year
Archive for October, 2007The National Piping Centre can now also announce the full details of The Piping tutors for the course are Roddy MacLeod MBE, Gavin Stoddart MBE BEM, Bruce Gandy, Jack Lee, Alastair Dunn and Margaret Dunn and the drumming tutors have been confirmed as Graham Brown (snare) and Tyler Fry (Tenor). Costs for this school are: Daytime Tuition plus SHARED accommodation: $750 Daytime Tuition ONLY: $500 Daytime Piping Course PLUS the evening workshops: $550 You can have a single room at a $250 supplement. To attend only the evening workshops which cover areas such as Tuning, Musical Expression and Medley Construction these are only $20 each evening and if you can’t attend the school during the day evening lessons are available at a cost of $40 each. There will also be other events on in New York that week with the Metro Cup on February 16th, the CLASP competition on 23rd February between 9-4 and then that evening a You Be The Judge Competition! So CLICK HERE to go to the New York School Page and book your place now! Evening Class Instruction with the Great Highland Bagpipe THE NEW ‘CATCH-UP’ TERM starts on Monday 15th October for 10 weeks. If you missed the start of the evening class term but still wanted to join now you can. You will be slotted into a class for your ability and can take a 10 week course. Please download the form below and post it, email it or bring it in to the National Piping Centre by Wednesday 10th October. The new course costs £80/£70 (U16). Please note the timetable of lessons on the form as this will indicate your lesson time. Tuition is given in small, ability and aged-grouped classes. You will learn under the instruction of one of our expert tutors, using The National Piping Centre’s instructional system. Certificates of achievement are awarded after each stage, and you will be able to take part in the activities of The National Piping Centre, such as the informal end of session competition - either as a contestant or, if you prefer, as an enthusiastic supporter! What The National Piping Centre Evening Classes Offer: The National Piping Centre is a unique Scottish educational facility, specialising in group and individual tuition given by it’s world famous team of instructors. Take advantage of our outstanding learning facilities! EDINBURGH, Scotland, Oct. 10 (UPI) — A Scottish bagpiper is forging a new link between her country and Brazil by starting a bagpipe samba band. Scots will get a chance to assess the combination of droning pipes and Latin rhythms on Sunday when The Sunshine on Leith Pipes and Samba Band has its first public performance, The Scotsman reported. In another cultural mix, the band will be in a parade to mark the Hindu festival of Dussehra. World-class highland drummer Tom Foote has joined Mohawk Valley Frasers Bagpipe Band (NY) and will begin a bi-monthly class for beginners beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul’s Church, Cypress Street. Foote will offer solo lessons to experienced drummers. The Mohawk Valley Frasers will offer classes for those wishing to learn to play the bagpipe. Highland Dancing will be taught by Elizabeth Clough with classes meeting Sundays at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. Clough is certified by the Scottish Dance Teachers’ Alliance. For information or lessons, call 339-0972, 336-5393 or 585-752-3838 Julie Hahnke plays her bagpipes outside of a book signing at Moran Studios in Marblehead this summer. She put on a similar piping-signing event Saturday at Cornerstone Books in Salem.
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Blackwatch play at the St. Ann’s Warehouse until 11/11/07Posted by: Pipe Major in EventRead the Review by Variety St. Ann’s Warehouse in association with Affinity Company Theater presents National Theatre of Scotland New York Premiere “a mature and complex piece of political theatre — fierce, passionate and unguarded.” (The Guardian) “Few will come away untouched by this thrilling, raw, challenging and masterful piece of work.” (The Times) Originally presented in a drill hall, this tour-de-force production arrives at St. Ann’s cavernous warehouse a poignant and timely work for New York audiences. Black Watch follows the disassembling of Scotland’s most esteemed regiment over the course of its final tour in Iraq, written from the personal testimonies of ten men on the ground. Black Watch reveals what it really means to be part of the War on Terror and what it means to make the journey home again. Lyrical and loaded with testosterone, John Tiffany’s production makes powerful and inventive use of movement, music and song to create a visceral, complex and urgent piece of theater. After taking Scotland by storm, winning four top Critics Awards, including Best Production, and five stars in every major Scottish/British news outlet, Black Watch recently opened the new session of the Scottish Parliament at the invitation of the new First Minister, instigated by Sir Sean Connery. The Irish Cultural Society of Stanislaus County, Modesto,CA will host Irish Author’s Night on Saturday 10/27/07 at the Fruit Yard at Geer-Albers Road and Highway 132 between Empire and Waterford. Organizers said Irish bards will expound, dinner will be served and there will be live Celtic music throughout the evening, as well as bagpipers from the Stanislaus Irish Pipe Band. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. Deadline for reservations is Wednesday. For more information, call Phil McGill at 505-7705. Guys playing traditional bagpipe called tulum of Black Sea, singing old sailors’ and fishermen’s songs, and hora dancing, called horon A band of drummers from Hastings took their tunes to the House of Commons this week. The 1066 Pipes and Drums became the first non-military band to be allowed to play underneath Big Ben during the trip on Wednesday. Pipe major Jon Bartholomew and councillor Phil Scott, the bands president, led the 20-strong delegation after Michael Foster MP had arranged for them to meet the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin. Iain MacFadyen wins Glenfiddich Championship in final competition of his career, Blair Atholl, 1986. Is It the ultimate insult to the great Scottish nation? Is it a stab in the back for the Bravehearts of Caledonia? The terrible truth is that more and more pubs and clubs in Eastern Europe are - whisper it - banning the kilt. Piping Judge: Drumming Judge: “A” Division Piping “B” Division Piping “A” Division Drumming “B” Division Drumming
November 14th - 18th Armagh City, Ireland
The Herald newspaper from Glasgow,Scotland,UK Article has written an article on Gordon Duncan, who died in December 2005 at the age of 41, was one of the most skilled and innovative bagpipers the piping art has ever known. This year’s Mad Plaid has been sanctioned by the Prairie Pipe Band Association of Manitoba. The Amateur Solo Events will be used towards the 2008 Champion Supreme Point Tabulations! The Winnipeg Celtic Pipe Band will be hosting the 9th Annual Mad Plaid. The event will take place on November 3rd at the Irish Club - 654 Erin Street
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Solo Piping Competition Coming to Ross Bridge Resort November 3rdPosted by: Pipe Major in NewsAn EUSPBA sanctioned solo piping contest is coming to Birmingham on the first Saturday in November 2007. This will be an indoor event and will feature Amateur grade 5 through grade 1 and possibly even an open/professional player contest if entries warrant. The judge will be Jimmy Bell from Lyon College in Arkansas, a well-known EUSPBA judge. This event will be sponsored this first year by the Piping Society of the MidSouth and the Alabama Celtic Association in an effort to support solo piping in Alabama and to raise interest and awareness of piping locally. Organizer hope the event will attract enough competitors to return in 2008! For more information, contact |
14th Annual William Kennedy Piping Festival 
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