The Seven Pipers Scottish Society Pipes & Drums will perform a 25-minute piece with pyrotechnic theatre dance troupe Flam Chen as part of the Solstice Festival. www.sevenpipers.org We performed with them in 2007 at a Chalk Art Festival in Tucson. The weather was hot and the tuning was thus somewhat not, but you can get the idea from a youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5PbrzDeMA
Loch Rannoch Pipes & Drums is currently recruiting pipers. As the demand for the band continues to grow the need for additional pipers as grown. Pipers of all skill levels are welcome. For beginners or those interested in learning to play the pipes we have an active lesson program available. We are based in Doylestown, PA and practice every Wednesday from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
CeltFest SUMMER SCHOOL: Piping, Drumming, Fiddling, all Celtic Music and Song:
July 6-11
Highland Dancing, Irish Dancing and Celtic Step Dance:
July 7-11
Sunset & Stars Gala Concert PORT THEATRE, Nanaimo, July 12th
***Summer School*** REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW!!! Early bird discount deadline: April 16
Registration deadline: June 16 or until programs full
The bagpipe, that Rodney Dangerfield of the woodwinds, is finally getting some respect.
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…
TRADITIONAL 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
St.John’s Works
St. John’s Place
Cleckheaton BD19 3RR
Tel +44 (0) 1274 879768
On Thursday 17th April we are pleased to welcome a quartet of pipers from world champions Field Marshall Montgomery to play at the National Piping Centre Recital Series.
This will be avery exciting evening of piping with them playing together and individually. So come along to hear the reigning world champions perform!
The event starts at 7.30pm and tickets ar £8 adults/ £6 concession. They are available from the shop at the National Piping Centre or by calling 0141 353 0220.
This year the National Piping Centre have added a third Summer School in Atlanta, Georgia to our USA programme.So the dates of the USA summer Schools are:
Atlanta, Georgia - 15th - 20th June 2008
Winchester,Virginia - 22nd - 27th June 2008
Monterey, California - 28th June - 4th July 2008
Early Bird Booking Discounts are Available!!For more information go to: http://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/schools/ We also are running the Summer School programme here at the National Piping Centre.The dates for these schools are Spring School: 7th -11th April (you can still sign up for this!)
Peter Henderson pipes form mid 1940’s. Superior, robust Henderson tone. Fully refurbished, no cracks, warping, etc of any kind. Genuine ivory and silver of superior craftsmanship in Celtic pattern. Available as sticks only or with Moose bag, Kinnaird drone reeds (brand new), gold drone cords. No pipe chanter. Will ship in original wooden pipe box. Pics available on request – serious inquiries only please at phpipes@bellsouth.net
Highlights, reflecting this year’s special ‘Crossing Borders’ theme, include Friday evening’s gala concert with music from the Scottish and Welsh borders including Ceri Rhys Matthews, player of the intriguing Welsh bagpipe, and local Border ballads from Mike Tickell; Saturday’s pageant with Ellington Band, miners’ banners created by local schoolchildren, morris and rapper dance teams and the return of the Dodgy Clutch Theatre giant figure of much-travelled roguish Northumbrian piper Jamie Allan; a special film show on Bohemian bagpiping by American producer Jefe Brown who will be calling in en route between Prague and the United States; the afternoon battle based on a English Civil War skirmish from the Welsh border area (staged on both Saturday and Sunday); Saturday’s Barn Dance with the Castle Band and guests; and Sunday’s range of events to launch Morpeth’s year of activities commemorating the 500th birthday of William Turner, Father of English Botany culminating in a grand concert of Tudor music by costumed supergroup of the early music scene, The York Waits.
Housed in Morpeth’s medieval Chantry buildings since 1987, the Bagpipe Museum his home to a unique collection , the foundation of which is the bagpipe collection of William Alfred Cocks (1892 - 1971), a clockmaker from Ryton, near Newcastle.
The pipes collection belongs to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Museum is supported by Castle Morpeth Borough Council.
These are made in the key of A, by Kilberry Bagpipes of Edinburgh. The pipes have one bass drone, one baritone drone and one tenor drone, resulting in a lovely harmonic drone sound. They are mouthblown and are fitted with a maintenance free small synthetic bag. The pipes are made completely from black acetal (plastic) and overall produce an excellent tone. They are ideal for playing indoors on their own, or along with other instruments.They come complete with a smallpipe alloy finish carry case and are fully reeded and ready to play.Availability: normally 6 - 8 weeks,
He says he’s the best in the world at what he does, and looking at his work, it’s hard to imagine he isn’t.
Bagpipe maker David Atherton makes a blowpipe in his Naperville workshop. Atherton says he works 12 hours a day, seven days a week making bagpipes.
In today’s market where most things, including bagpipes, are mass produced, Atherton is one of a comparative few artisans who creates every detailed facet of his instruments painstakingly by hand.
Atherton, 37, has been making Great Highland bagpipes for 13 years. He spent 12 years as one of two bagpipe makers with C.E. Kron & Company in New York before moving to Naperville in August and going into business for himself.
The National Piping Centre has just completed its first overseas school of the year in New York. There was a great week of piping and drumming tuition. Thank you to all who attended and special thanks to Margaret Dunn for all her organisational efforts.
Additional Schools
If you missed this school however, there are three more coming up this year. Firstly we have a new school in Atlanta, Georgia 15th -20th June, then Winchester, Virginia 22nd -27th June and Pebble Beach, California 28th June - 3rd July so their are plenty more opportunities to receive great piping instruction in the USA this Summer.
Please, no cracks about the kilt. Yes, real men — and women — wear skirts. And no, they aren’t wearing shorts under there.
For decades, the John Ford Highland Pipe Band has braved frequently frigid temperatures at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, traditionally held the Saturday before the holiday. This year, the band will join the St. Louis Highland Guard, St. Louis Caledonian Pipe Band and bagpipers from the Quad Cities to create a 60-musician band.
College of Piping - “We are pleased to be working with MusicaliTee as our suppliers of commemorative clothing for the College at Carbisdale, 2008. We will receive a commission from Musicalitee for every top you buy so, as well as having a Collectors Item of the first College at Carbisdale Course, you will be helping towards the cost of the course.”
The City of Nelson Highland Pipe Band returned from Auckland after winning two categories at the New Zealand Pipe Band Championships on Saturday. Read the entire article at “The Neslon Mail”
MAKAWAO— A decorated, world-class solo bagpiper returns to Maui to headline the Isle of Maui Pipe Band fundraising concert March 14 at Makawao Union Church. Canadian Jack Lee performed at last year’s concert and is pipe sergeant and co-founder of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band. He is to be joined by the university’s award-winning lead drummer, J. Reid Maxwell. Money raised from the concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the church on Baldwin Avenue, will go toward the purchase of uniforms for the growing pipe band.
Lee “quite possibly holds more awards than any piper in history,” said a news release about the event. … READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE
Bagpipe Instruments and Concerts Sell Out As Global Interest Rises Article featuring news on the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and their 2 Million Dollar Recording Concert, Red Hot Chilli Pipers Concerts, and demand for increased bagpipes from makers Kilberry BagpipesSee Full Story and Video on ABC NEWS.
The bagpipe, that Rodney Dangerfield of the woodwinds, is finally getting some respect.
These are made in the key of A, by 
He says he’s the best in the world at what he does, and looking at his work, it’s hard to imagine he isn’t.
Please, no cracks about the kilt. Yes, real men — and women — wear skirts. And no, they aren’t wearing shorts under there.
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