Alasdair is one of the most successful solo competitors on the circuit today. He has won both Highland Society of London's Gold medals, the Senior Piobaireachd at the Argyllshire Gathering and the Gold Clasp at the Northern Meeting.
He has won the Former Winners March, Strathspey & Reel event at ...
Allan MacDonald raised in Glenuig Moidart went to Queen Victoria School, Dunblane where he received tuition from Pipe Major John Mackenzie from Campbeltown. Won the gold medal and two clasps for Piobaireachd playing.
Allan was commissioned by John MacFadyen trust to research the relationship between Piobaireachd and Gaelic ...
Alasdair started playing the pipes at the age of 11 and received tuition from Pipe Major Jim Henderson in his hometown of Dunoon.
He is now currently based in Glasgow where he is receiving tuition from Major Gavin Stoddart BEM MBE whilst studying for an honours degree in Scottish ...
Angus is ranked among the world's greatest pipers who has distinguished himself by winning the Gold Medal at Inverness (1992), the Clasp (1993) and the Gold Medal at Oban (1996).
He was also winner of the Glenfiddich Invitational (1995), winner of the GS MacLennan, San Diego 1997 and, in addition ...
Anna was brought up on the Isle of Lewis, a native Gaelic speaker. For over fifteen years Anna has been working in music, theatre and television: including 'Hiort' the pan-European theatre and film production, presenter of award winning arts series 'Tacsi' and composer and performer for 'Lazy Bed' ...
The Australia Highlanders Pipe Band (formerly Nunawading) of Melbourne, Australia in 1956. Since that time, the band has become one of the most successful pipe bands in Australasia, achieving success in both national and international competitions
Under the direction of Pipe Major Danny Boyle and Drum Major Alistair Boyle ...
Bagad Cap Caval was created in 1984 by Denis Daniel in Plomeur (south west of Brittany) and started competing that year. After many titles in Grade 4 , 3 & 2, Cap Caval was promoted to Grade 1 in 1996 and has been very successful in the top ...
Formed in 1999 after a night at the Celtic Colours festival club, Beolach quickly became one of Cape Breton's most prominent young celtic bands. The group, consisting of two fiddles (Mairi Rankin and Wendy MacIsaac), piano (MacMorin), guitar, (Patrick Gillis) whistles and pipes (Ryan J MacNeil) with some Cape Breton ...
Breabach's innovative Celtic style, blending double bagpipes, whistle, fiddle, song and Scottish step dance, brings to the stage flare, excitement and diversity rarely seen from such a young group. Enviable musicianship coupled with a delightful ability to connect with their audience have gained Breabach international recognition as one of ...
Cameron started playing pipes aged 8 with the Craigmount High School Pipe Band. Since then he has played with the Lothian and Borders Police Pipe Band, Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia and most recently with the Band Club from Sydney Australia.
As well as playing in bands he has won the ...
Chris Armstrong is, at 28, well established as a top-flight solo competitor, as a prolific composer and as an excitingly innovative recording artist. His three albums Notes in ma Heid, Quantum Leap and X-Treme display not only his technical virtuosity but also his fresh and challenging approach. He has ...
Chris Gibb (25) is from Edinburgh and has been playing Highland bagpipes since the age of 8. His early piping was concentrated on the competition scene until when aged 19 he moved to Canada. There he was exposed to some fabulous musicians from both Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. Chris developed a passion for Cape Breton music ...
Cillian took up his father’s instrument and polished his skills with tutelage from the late Armagh piper Mark Donnelly. His mastery of chanter, drones and regulators, and of all the accents and moods of the traditional piping idiom, place him in the first rank of today’s Irish pipers. Cillian ...
About the Music
The neglected early clàrsach repertory is a beautiful and rich tradition of formal art music, which was played at court, castles and great houses throughout the old Gaelic world from medieval times to its decline in the 17th and 18th centuries. The ceól mòr of the ...
The Highlanders, 4th Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Pipe Corporal at the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming.
Born in 1981 in Inverness and was brought up in Ullapool Ross-shire.
Started Piping at the age of 8 was taught by Sandy Wregg and then by Pipe Major Norman ...
With a combined height of over 36 feet and a weight of more than half a ton Dàimh (pronounced Dive) are the ultimate Scottish, Irish, Cape Breton and Californian group. Combining the traditions of each, the charging pipes and fiddle combined with banjo, mandola, guitar and bodhran, saw them nominated ...
PAGUS is the Latin name of an old village in the Sannio area. Pagus is also the name chosen by this Ensemble to recall the beauty and the magic atmosphere of past music traditions.
In order to mingle old and modern music, the Ensemble uses instruments such as the Italian ...
Emma Buchan, 18, hails from Falkirk and is currently studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on the BA (Scottish Music - Piping) course. She began playing at the age of 9 under the tutelage of James Grant, then of Scottish Power Pipe Band. She is ...
The band was formed in 1946 shortly after the end of World War II by young Northern Irish war veterans in the townland of Drumalig, near Carryduff on the outskirts of Belfast. (The tartan worn by the band, created especially by St Kilda for the band ...
Finlay started piping at the age of ten with tuition from his father, Pipe Major Iain MacDonald of the Neilston and District Pipe Band.
With Neilston Pipe Band he has travelled World Wide playing at concerts and festivals as far a field as Japan, China, Russia and all over Europe.
After ...
Fraser Fifield is one of Scotland's most creative musicians. A multi-instrumentalist, he is always in great demand to play on other musicians projects. The list of groups and musicians he's performed and recorded with reads as a who's who of Scottish Roots music. ...
Youngest ever winner of the Shetland Young Fiddler of the year 2002, at the age of 13.
Winner of the major Scottish fiddle competitions, inc. The Glenfiddich Fiddle championship 2006, Musselburgh championship 2005 & 2006, and Banchory championship 2006.
Play with a number of bands (on fiddle and piano) in various ...
Iain Speirs from Edinburgh, is one of Scotland’s' finest young pipers.He was taught originally by Jack D. Crichton and by his grandfather, Jock Speirs, Pipe Major in the London Scottish and of the JohnnieWalker Pipe Band.He is currently taught by the legendary piper Donald MacPherson. Some of his more ...
Ivan was born in Burgas, Bulgaria in 1976. He graduated from the special High School of Folk Music "Filip Kutev" in 1995. He went on to graduate from the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv in 1999 specialising in the bagpipe and orchestral conducting. He is ...
For 30 years, Jack Lee has been regarded as one of the world's leading pipers. His accomplishments as a Solo Piper, Pipe Band leader and Teacher cause him to be much sought after as a performer, lecturer and teacher throughout the world.
As a Solo Piper...
Jack has won all the ...
James is from the Isle of Lewis and has had an interest in music from a young age. He began taking bagpipe lessons at the age of eight and started competing in junior competitions soon afterwards. As well as the bagpipe, James also plays the flute. He attended the ...
Jori Chisholm has made his mark on the international competitive piping scene winning top prizes, including the first-ever United States Gold Medal Piping Championship, the Royal Scottish Pipers' Society Bronze Star for the 'A' Marches at Oban and Runner-Up in the Silver Medal at the Northern Meeting. In 2008 he ...
The world's most widely acknowledged icon of Northumbrian music joins forces with one of the UK's hottest new talents to produce music of an electrifying energy, vitality and virtuosity. Their technical prowess is only part of the appeal: much more special than that is the soul, ...
The Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band, known more commonly as the LA Scots, is a competitive Grade One pipe band based in Orange County, California. This is the Band's ninth year in Grade One, after winning the 1997 World Pipe Band Championships in Grade Two. In 1999, the band proved itself as a contender in the future by placing Eleventh ...
Formed in 1984, the seven member group has been part of an overall revival and revitalization of Asturian traditional music. The band is a frequent participant in Celtic music festivals, both inside and outside of Asturias, such as the Festival Interceltique de Lorient. True to their effort to ...
The Manly Warringah Pipe Band was inaugurated as the Band of the Manly District Scottish Society on 9th February 1949 under the leadership of Pipe Major Fred Munro. The band was at that time called the Manly District Scottish Society Pipe Band and played at local ...
Margaret began piping at the age of 8 and was initially taught by her father Con Houlihan and when she was 10 she began taking lessons from Stephen Power (ex Scots Guards). Margaret moved to Scotland when she was 17. In 1998 she was accepted into the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama where she studied for 4 years ...
Northwest Junior Pipe Band (NWJPB) is a volunteer-run non-profit organization founded in 1995 serving youth up to age 18 in the Seattle and Greater Puget Sound region in Washington, USA. After investing in new beginning and group lesson programs and reaching out to more students, the ...
Over the years Old Blind Dogs have evolved and grown into one of Scotland's favourite folk bands. In the early days, the line-up consisted of: Jonny Hardie, Buzzby McMillan, and Ian Benzie, along with Dave Francis on percussion and Carmen Higgins on fiddle . In 1992 Dave and ...
The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Bn The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Senior Pipe Major British Army
Born in 1968 in Cumnock, Ayrshire.
Started Piping career aged 10 (1978) taught by Pipe Major David Kay, Cumnock.
Joined the Army in 1988 and joined the Pipes and Drums 1 RHF in Oct 1989 who
were ...
Patsy Reid is from Knapp in Perthshire and despite her young age, she has a great amount of experience in performing and teaching both traditional and classical music. She remains the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship and released her debut solo album “With Complements” in ...
Pipedown are a Scottish band with a line up of bagpipes (Highland and Scottish smallpipes), guitar, mandolins and percussion. Their music is a mix of traditional and modern piping tunes from Scotland and Ireland, with some tunes from Bulgaria and Brittany as well as some of the band's own tunes.
They ...
Winners of Graham Norton's prime time BBC1 Show 'When Will I Be Famous' & Voted 'Best Live Act Of The Year' at The Scottish Trad Awards. Three powerful pipers and a rock band hit the stage with a sound which will blow you away!
The Red Hot Chilli ...
Roddy MacLeod, MBERoddy MacLeod MBE, is one of the most distinguished and widely accomplished pipers of his generation, and one of Highland piping's most profoundly influential identities.
A student of the late Duncan Johnstone, he played with the Red Hackle and British Caledonian Airways Pipe Bands, the last of ...
Roddy was born in Dundee and is currently 36 years old. He went to Whitfield High School and started piping at the age of 8 under Ian Duncan and played with Mackenzie Caledonia Pipe Band until age 17.
He joined the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards at age 17 and spent ...
ScottishPower Pipe Band is one of the world's top pipe bands and have been regular and consistent prize winners in all major pipe band championships. The band has twice been Runner-Up in the World Pipe Band Championships and this year finished in tenth place out of over 200 bands.
Having been voted best dressed pipe band, the ScottishPower Pipe Band is ...
Simon McKerrell plays the Highland, Uilleann and Border bagpipes and is in regular demand as a session musician and recitalist. He is proud to be appointed as ‘Head of Piping Studies for the BA(Scottish Music - Piping) degree at the National Piping Centre and continues to develop his playing ...
Skerryvore are a 6 piece traditional band based in Glasgow, Scotland. An all male band, they have been dubbed the ‘boy band’ of traditional Scottish music!! The roots of the band come from the West Coast of Scotland and in particular the tiny Island of Tiree, in the ...
Accordionist Angus MacPhail and piper Andrew Stevenson, aka Skipinnish, play classic-style country dance tunes with laid-back but zestful flair, embellished by plenty of supple ornamentation and tautly measured lift. When they are not making great music, Angus who hails from Tiree is a fisherman while Andrew is a Lochaber gamekeeper. ...
The proud history of the The Band Club Sydney – Australia began when the band was founded in 1964 in the Western Sydney suburb of St Marys. It quickly rose through the ranks to become a force in NSW Competitions throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The ...
St Laurence O'Toole Pipe band hails from Dublin and was started in 1910. It has won many trophies over the years including the coveted Ulster Championships becoming the first band from the Republic of Ireland ever to do so. Over the last few years it has ...
For Stuart Liddell, piping is in the blood. His grandfather was the late Pipe Major Ronnie McCallum MBE, piper to the Duke of Argyll, and it was from Ronnie that Stuart had his first lessons, at the age of nine, building the foundations of solid technique and sound repertoire ...
The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland is a non-competing cutting edge performance pipe band for 10-25 year olds in Scotland. Launched in 2002, the National Youth Pipe Band is the first and only organisation of its kind to bring together Scotland's most talented young musicians at ...
This an exciting new project which brings together current and former members of some of Irish music's most important and popular bands of the last 10 years, including Lunasa, Nomos, Buille, North Cregg and The Karan Casey Band.
The core of the band is formed by the three Vallely brothers, ...
Willie McCallum is the current Masters Champion, he is one of the most successful and versatile competitive pipers of his generation. He was taught by his uncles Ronald and Hugh.Willie McCallum’s competitive record is noted for its consistent heights. Having won the gold medals at the Northern Meeting and ...
