Bagpipe News

Seth Gallagher and Friends will present a program of Irish music at First Presbyterian Church of Philipstown, Cherry and Academy Streets, Cold Spring, on Sunday, October 5 at 3pm. Seth is an internationally known maker of uilleann pipes and a talented performer. Admission to the concert is free and the community is invited.

Seth Gallagher and Friends to Perform Irish Music Program at First Presbyterian on October 5 | www.pcnr.com | PCNR - Cold Spring, Garrison, Philipstown, NY.

The members of the Bellinger River District Pipe Band have been busy lately, having competed twice in Queensland over the past month.

Firstly, they competed at the Ipswich Highland Gathering achieving excellent results. The band took first place in the Grade 4 Championship, as well winning the March-Off Drill, Best Ensemble, Best Pipe Corp, and Best Musical Selection.

They followed up this performance last week by winning the Queensland Pipe Band Championships held at Redlands. The band also won awards for Best Ensemble and Best Pipe Corp.

Pipe Major Rod McGrath said, “There were some terrific bands competing at both these Championships, so results like this are a testament to the hard work and dedication of the band members”.

Pipe Band victorious in Queensland - Local News - News - General - Bellingen Courier Sun
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The Central Band of the Canadian Forces will be joined by the Laurentian University Pipe Band and Dancers and members of the Air Command Pipes and Drums from Ottawa. This is a fundraising event for the university pipe band to assist with the purchase of additional uniforms and equipment. 

Central Band of the Canadian Forces returns to Sudbury

Frankfort resident John Ludwig is piping his way back onto the music scene with his newest release “Pipes for the People,” comprised by his alter-ego, Piper Johnny. Like Ludwig, Piper Johnny composes songs that he hopes listeners will connect too on a personal level as well as a musical one.

Pipes For The People: The Frankfort Station - Frankfort’s Local Newspaper

The Ultimate Piping Guide—Piper’s Mind: The Portable Piping Workshop

This second installment of exclusive online bagpiping guides focuses on the mind of the piper. After perusing Starting Off (above), the first downloadable ebook, pipers of all stripes can dive in to comprehensive essays and exercises that delve into the deeper reaches of the psyche – and get you thinking and acting in new ways. Pipers of all levels of playing experience can take something from this guide and refresh the way they approach their music.

The Voicelog » FREE eBOOKS: The Ultimate Piping Guides

The Ultimate Piping Guide—Starting Off: Tips and Advice for the Beginning Piper

The Voicelog » FREE eBOOKS: The Ultimate Piping Guides.

In a first-of-its-kind arrangement, The Voice, announces a collaboration with the Mpingo Conservation Project to connect Highland pipers with a way to help the tree that has given them so much for so long and help preserve future stands of bagpipes for decades to come.

The Voicelog » Blog Archive » Bagpipers Can Help the Tree of Music.

When we did the review of Poitín’s CD Hot Days, I admitted that the envelope from Czech Republic is one of my favorite pieces of Celtophilia memorabilia. In light of that, I wanted us to talk to these guys a little bit about being a Celtic band in their country, and about their style in general. The band was so excited to talk to Bonnie and I that they got together and had a big Celtophilia Answering Party, (okay, that’s not what happened, but that’s what I like to pretend.) They put together some amazing answers, and I hope you all enjoy them as much as I did.

Interview - Poitín - 9.19.08 | Celtophilia.

YouTube - Jota Asturiana.

Stuart Cassells is the founder of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, the dynamic bagpipe rock band who have appeared on the BBC's When Will I Be Famous? They join Dame Evelyn Glennie and singer and actress Maria Friedman for the BBC's Proms In The Park event. How did the idea for the Chilli Pipers come to you?

Five questions for Stuart Cassells | Metro.co.uk
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Bagpiper plays her own unique tune - with video | livingstondaily.com | Livingston Daily.

After 21 years of being a couple, George Takei and Brad Altman tied the knot at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo at their public wedding yesterday. They first made their appearance by stepping out together singing “One Singular Sensation” from “A Chorus Line” before entering a circle of yellow roses and lilies and sharing a traditional Japanese tea ceremony before being wed by a Buddhist priest. They exchanged their own vows and used Native American wedding bands proceeded by a bagpipe procession.

LAist: Congratulations, George Takei & Brad Altman

STUDIO-quality music will be transmitted via fibre-optics for the first time in the UK in an experiment involving York and Edinburgh universities.

Bagpipe music performed by students in Edinburgh will be captured by sophisticated microphones in surround sound and sent using the Janet Lightpath network to York, 300 miles away.

Pipe dreams now a reality (From York Press).

Berkeley protesters take note: put down your picket signs and loudspeakers and pull out your bagpipes.

In an odd spectacle of bagpipe serenading and pro-Proposition 8 pamphleting this past Monday, a group of very stern-looking, red cap-sporting male members of The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property invaded the Berkeley campus to tell us all why we should stop being gay.

The Daily Clog » Protesters Find New Medium: Bagpipes

YouTube - Rubber Glove bagpipe.

As a music education major about a decade ago at the University of Akron, Kate Wiley’s studies required she learned to play almost every musical instrument under the sun.

So when it came time to try out the bagpipe, the Litchfield Township native didn’t flinch.

Banded by bagpipes

Spring is almost officially starting with comet flying on the hills of Valpo and everybody preparing to celebrate the chilean independence holidays within a fortnight

At the same time, the few bagpipers in town and surrounding areas are gathering to play music with their bagpipes in the outdoors. Two well organised pipebands are in town, both celebrating spanish folk bagpipe traditions. The Valparaiso asturian pipeband with their long single drone and closed chantered bagpipes (gaita asturiana) and the galician Remembranzas de Galicia pipeband with their traditional open chantered galician gaitas….

These bagpipes might look somewhat alike but they sound different because of their respective distinct reeds (palleta and pajuela) and chanters. So I am also playing galician style in the outdoors with a friend at the Baron docks (photo above). Tomorrow night many of these pipers will gather to celebrate the 4th Irlandes bar birthday….

so if you hear them just relax they might be celebrating with green beer and other stronger brews.

Festivalpo: Piping in Valpo

Brother from Australia and Albannach from Scotland return to the festival this year. New to the festival is the Colorado Celtic rock and roll band, Angus Mohr — four rockers from Estes Park to Front Range locations.

Angus Mohr

Angus Mohr creates an emotionally charged performance, blending Celtic music with rock, playing original and traditional songs. But there’s nothing traditional about Angus Mohr. Made up of a band with a background in rock and blues, bass guitarist Paul McDaniel took his Scottish heritage, his local exposure to the Longs Peak Scottish Irish Festival and added his son Matthew’s bagpipe playing to the existing rock band four years ago. Their presence at the festival this year is a testament to a commitment to the genre and a lot of hard work.

Look who’s rockin’ Scot Fest :
community-news : Estes Park Trail-Gazette.

The Argyllshire Gathering was founded in 1871, and its piping competitions seem to have started in 1873. The Highland Society of London first presented its Gold Medal for piobaireachd in that year, and the list of past winners includes some very famous names. These include Calum Piobaire, John Maccoll, G. S. MacLennan and D. R. MacLennan, both the Bobs of Balmoral, Wille Ross, Donald MacPherson, to name but a few. A small handfull, ten in number, have achieved the rare distinction of winning the Gold Medal at both Oban and Inverness in the same year.

The Argyllshire Gathering 2008 - Times Online .

Heavy athletics is a major part of the Ligonier Highland Games, but the day is about much more than the caber toss, the stone put and the hammer throw.

Its a celebration of all things Scottish, and with this years 50th anniversary observance of the games, theres sure to be a lot of celebrating at Idlewild Park. Two young musical groups, MacTalla Mor and Maidens IV, both made up of family members, will give a contemporary twist to the event that pays homage to Scotland and Scottish traditions.

Ligonier Highland Games celebrates 50th - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review .