Raasay, Scotland – August 6, 2026 – The singular Raasay Restitution solo piping competition once again put the accent on Hebridean culture and fun, this year moving from the Raasay Community Hall to ...

Chatsworth, England – August 6, 2026 – Winning three firsts and two seconds in the five events, Stuart Liddell of Inveraray, Scotland, gained the Chatsworth Champion Piper trophy at the annual ...

Inverness, Scotland – September 3, 2026 – Calum Brown of Peterculter, Scotland, won the 2026 Highland Society of London Gold Medal on the first day of the two-day 2026 Northern Meeting at Eden Court ...

Greg Wilson with some of the same trophies he won at Hastings in 2024. Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand—April 19, 2025—Greg Wilson of Tai Tapu, New Zealand, won his record eighteenth Former Winners Clasp to ...

Jeannie Campbell, a frequent contributor to pipes|drums, has written and published Pipe Bands, an 850-page book on the origins and history of pipe bands around the world. “Why did I write this book?” ...

Nick Hudson has been an excellent solo piper for many years. But when he won the Highland Society of London Gold Medal at the Northern Meeting in 2022, his star immediately rose to an elite level.

As in the job world, pipe band members often quit because of management. Modern-day competitive pipe bands need to run as much like a business as a hobby. Yet, pipe band leaders are most often thrust ...

About 30 years ago, the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band travelled to Scotland to compete in the World Championships. There was plenty of discussion (and ridicule from other bands) that every band ...

A correction was made on Aug. 30, 2026: we later discovered that Cameron Bonar won the overall trophy after a tie was broken on the better Piobaireachd result. The article was adjusted accordingly and ...

Next in our exclusive 2026 Set Tunes Series by Willie Donaldson is “The Pride of Barra,” a piobaireachd included on the Piobaireachd Society’s list of pieces eligible for submission to the Highland ...

Glasgow – August 30, 2026 – Kyle Shead of Glasgow won the Competing Pipers’ Association’s Bronze Medal for Piobaireachd, held at the National Piping Centre’s Otago Street branch. By winning, Shead ...