Bagpipers are being persecuted once again, here comes Culloden 2008 - Read the Article
Archive for April, 2008Get a website with a Vanity Domain for your Pipe Band or Personal Visit http://www.bagpiper.com/info/n-87/Web-Hosting.html for more For $50, members of the Ogden Legion Pipe Band, dressed in full highland regalia, will visit a lucky Mom’s house on May 10 or 11 for a personal performance. They will also leave behind a rose and some chocolates for her to enjoy on her special day. The Mother’s Day event is one of the main fundraisers for the decorated band, which was formed in 1972 as a Calgary area youth pipe band with members ages eight to 18 years. Sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion, Ogden Branch No. 154 in southeast Calgary, the Ogden Legion Pipe Band has become a top-calibre band that competes nationally and internationally. It has been the Grade IV provincial champions for the past five consecutive years and has also won major awards and honours in Canada and Scotland. Proceeds from the Mother’s Day Pipes and Roses event will help to send the Ogden Legion Pipe Band to Glasgow, Scotland, in August 2008 to compete in the World Pipe Band Championships. To book a Mother’s Day piper, call 686-4488 or 464-7212. For more information about the Ogden Legion Pipe Band, visit its website at www.olpb.ab.ca. Piping
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CeltFest 2008 EventsPosted by: Pipe Major in Bagpipes, Event, Schools, tags: Celtfest, Lessons, SchoolsCeltworld Dance! Spectacular ROYAL THEATRE, Victoria July 5th CeltFest SUMMER SCHOOL: Sunset & Stars Gala Concert ***Summer School*** 1-866-301-2358
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UCR’s unique bagpipes and drum degree program beckons with top-notch directorsPosted by: Pipe Major in Bagpipes, News, Schools, tags: College, Ian Whitelaw, Learn, Lessons, University
Since UC Riverside inaugurated its degree programs in bagpipes and Scottish drums last fall, the spindly, awkward, noisy instrument and its Highland cousin have been elevated to the highest academic status possible alongside the piano, cello and clarinet within its music department. Three pipers and one drummer have enrolled in what may be the only program of its kind in the world where students can major in pipes or drums. That’s a long way to come for an instrument that few appreciate and even fewer can play well. Ian Whitelaw, arguably the best piper in the Western Hemisphere, wants to change that. Whitelaw, the new pipe director at UCR, brings a lifelong love of piping and a passion for its history and culture to the position. Ditto drumming director Ed Best, who has been playing Scottish drums since he was 8. Walter Clark, music department chairman, is convinced that once word is out that UCR has Whitelaw teaching bagpipes and Best teaching Scottish drums, people will flock to the fledgling program… Reach Elaine Regus at 951-368-9478 or eregus@PE.com
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Pipe band plans for an evening of Scottish song, dancePosted by: Pipe Major in Event, News, Pipeband, tags: PipebandThe Niagara Regional Police Pipe Band will host an evening of Scottish music and dance at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 479 on Spring Street in Niagara Falls on April 12. The show will run from 8 p.m. until midnight and will include two pipe band performances along with Scottish and Irish dancers. Food and refreshments will be on sale. A deejay will round out the night’s entertainment with a performance. Tickets are $20 a couple and are available at the legion or by calling Peter MacKenzie at 905-353-8771.T
Pipers from the five regular battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) played at the State Banquet during the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Windsor Castle. It is the first time that the Royal Regiment of Scotland has been given the honour to be the Sovereign’s Pipers at a state banquet. The pipers had been rehearsing at the headquarters of the Army’s School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Redford Infantry Barracks in Edinburgh where they marched in and around the headquarters to try and recreate the Windsor Castle setting prior to playing at the state banquet before Her Majesty The Queen and the French President.
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Uilleann Workshop at the Music Room Sat April 12, 2008Posted by: Pipe Major in Bagpipes, Event, Schools, tags: Uilleann Pipes, WorkshopTRADITIONAL sounds of the Emerald Isle will come to Cleckheaton tomorrow. The Music Room will host a series of workshops with Becky Taylor, one of the few female exponents of the Uilleann, or Irish pipes, in England today. Becky is a respected performer and teacher who has appeared at folk festivals in the UK and Europe for 20 years. She will conduct workshops, perform her material and launch her second CD Ireland Bridge. Becky is known for her ability to give a distinctive interpretation to traditional tunes on a variety of instruments: whistle, Uilleann pipes, fiddle, Northumbrian pipes and duet concertina. The shop will be open all day as usual and there will be special offers including a book and CD sale. Tony Dixon, whistle and flute maker, will arrive around noon with a full range of his instruments and There will be a beginners’ workshop with Becky from 2pm to 3pm. Those who don’t have their own whistle can buy one at discounted price. From 3.30pm to 4.30pm there is a Technique Toolbox workshop for more advanced players. Workshops cost £10 each, with numbers limited to 10 participants for each session. The workshop cost includes a free ticket to the launch party at 5pm. This will feature a performance by members of Heretique, with the Music Room’s own Murray Grainger. The Becky Taylor Band plays at 5.30pm and at 6.15pm there will be wine and food. To book workshop places visit the shop or go to the Music Room website at www.themusicroom-online.co.uk and search for Whistle Workshop. Alternatively contact Mark or Terry on 01274 852020. The Music Room |
The bagpipe, that Rodney Dangerfield of the woodwinds, is finally getting some respect.
KILSYTH soldier Corporal Alastair Tripney (26) had the honour of playing in front of Her Majesty The Queen.
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