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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 ...
The Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band was formed in 1982 as the Edmonton Caledonia Pipe Band and drew its membership from the Edmonton area. As years went by and the talent pool grew deeper and wider, members were drawn from throughout the province of Alberta, hence the eventual name change to Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band. The band has continued to pursue ...
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 song. The ...
Angus MacColl hails from Benderloch near Oban. He comes from an illustrious piping familyand is the Great Grand Nephew of the legendary John MacColl. Angus has a tremendous track record in competitive piping. In 1992 he won the Gold Medal at Inverness and in 1996 he won the Gold Medal ...
Armagh Pipers Club was founded in 1966, and has just celebrated 40 years of musical activity in the Armagh area. Dedicated to the development of traditional music, the Club has achieved worldwide acclaim, particularly for its innovative music education programme. APC has been in the forefront of producing teaching materials ...
The Auckland & District Pipe Band are based in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, and have carved a tradition of performing a strong musical performance wherever they play.
'A&D' (as they are affectionately known), are the 2010 Grade 1 New Zealand Champions after defending the title they won in 2009. The ...
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 ...
Under the banner “Forward with Scotland’s Past,” BATTLEFIELD BAND has been performing on the international scene for more than three decades. Inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength of the modern Scottish cultural scene, Battlefield Band mixes the old songs and tunes with ...
One aspect of the Boghall & Bathgate organisation of which we are extremely proud is the band's continued involvement in teaching piping and drumming to the youngsters of the local area and beyond. The organisation is world renowned for its highly successful Juvenile bands and the amount of time and effort ...
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 ...
The Canterbury Caledonian Society’s Pipe Band is based in Christchurch, in the South Island, New Zealand. The Pipe Band was formed in 1902 and is one of New Zealand’s premier Grade 1 pipe bands.
Today the Canterbury Caledonian Society oversees 4 pipe bands, a Highland dancing section and a Scottish Country ...
From their homeland roots of Argyll in the highlands of Scotland, Capercaillie have been credited with being the major force in bringing traditional Celtic music to the world stage and inspiring the great resurgence so evident today.
Since the band's first innovative recordings of 1984, they have toured in 30 ...
The City of Regina Pipe Band [CRPB] has been Saskatchewan's champion pipe band since 1992. The band has competed successfully against North America's best Grade 2 bands, and has been in the prize list at Highland Games across North America and in Scotland.
Band performances have included the Mid-Winter Celtic Festival, ...
The Cullen Pipe Band was founded in 1941 and the present day band continues the great musical tradition that has been part and parcel of this unique part of Ireland. The band has played a major role in the life of the local community because at one ...
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 ...
From Glenuig in Moidart, the oldest of three piping brothers. He began piping initially at home then at school under P/M John MacKenzie. While a Glasgow University he took piobaireachd tuition from Roderick MacDonald of South Uist. He played for several years in the British Caledonian Airways Pipe Band ...
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 ...
Fergus Muirhead has hosted Concerts at every Piping Live Festival as well as at the popular William Kennedy Festival in Armagh. He is also greatly in demand as a speaker at Burns Suppers all over Europe.
He can be seen regularly on BBC Scotland’s flagship News Programme Reporting Scotland and heard ...
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. ...
Fred Morrison is widely regarded as one of the greatest Scottish pipers alive today. His performances on the Highland, bellows blown and uilleann pipes and on the low whistle have taken the world music scene by storm.
His approach is firmly rooted in the musical tradition of the Hebridean islands ...
Griogair belongs to the well known Labhruidh family of North Argyll who are renowned in Scotland for Highland music. There have been numerous Gaelic singers and pipers among his forebears and Griogair’s father passed on the piping tradition to him, making Highland music an intrinsic part of his upbringing. ...
Having been Principal Curator in the National Museums of Scotland, Hugh Cheape moved to the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2007 where he manages a research programme Cultar Dùthchasach agus an Àrainneachd ('Material Culture & the Environment') as Research Professor at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre ...
Inveraray & District Pipe Band was formed in 2005 by world renowned solist piper Stuart Liddell whose aim was to encourage youngsters into the world of piping and to recreate a pipe band in Inveraray. The juvenile band consisting of members all under the age of ...
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 ...
Julian Goodacre has a passion for bagpipes. An innovative maker of unusual bagpipes, he has established a reputation both among pipe-makers and pipers for his oblique approach to piping and to the world in general. All his pipes are made from British hardwoods or yews; he knows where most of ...
Julie’s debut album “Mar A Tha Mo Chridhe (As My Heart Is)” quickly established a new, rising star in the Scots Gaelic firmament. The follow up album “Cuilidh” – the title roughly translates as a sanctuary for precious possessions – was a watershed, taking the musical culture of the Western ...
The Creation
Kintyre Schools Pipe Band was formed in October 2000, in response to a demand from a small group of young musicians to provide a structure for their collective piping and drumming interests. It sparked a local revival in juvenile piping, after years in the ...
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 eleventh 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 ...
Marco started playing Galician Gaita at the age of 5 years in the Escola Provincial de Gaitas de la Diputación de Ourense, and achieved the diploma as teacher at the age of 18. Actually he teaches in this School. He has been playing as soloist of the Real Banda de ...
Born in 1963, the youngest son of the acclaimed piper and composer Duncan Johnstone, Neil began playing the ‘Cello at the age of eleven. At the age of 15 he performed his first solo concerto with the Glasgow Schools Orchestra and the Strathclyde Schools Orchestra. In 1975 he was ...
Celebrating its first anniversary, the New Westminster Police Pipe Band is the current Grade 2 Pacific Northwest Champion. Prior to 2008, the band was previously known as the Maple Ridge Pipe Band and recognized its 60th anniversary during the year.
The band's many accomplishments ...
The Oran Mor Pipe Band, based in Albany, New York, is internationally competitive at the Grade I level.
The band’s annual schedule takes its members who hail from all corners of the northeastern United States to contests and performances throughout the Northeast and Canada.
Since its formation in 1992, the band ...
Born in 1951 in Saint-Malo in North Brittany, Patrick started playing the pipes at the age of 14 in his local bagad in 1965.
Two years later, he joined the An Ere Pipe Band from Rennes under the direction of Jakez Pincet, his first Pìobaireachd instructor, who introduced him to ...
Born in Aberdeen, Paul was first taught the practise chanter at age 10 by his beloved, late Granda, George Sim Ritchie, who was a former Pipe-Major and Captain of the 1st Fraserburgh Company Boys’ Brigade. Shortly after, Paul joined the learners’ group of the 47th Culter Boys’ Brigade Pipe Band, ...
The Peel Regional Police Pipe Band which hales from Brampton Ontario, Canada, was formed in 1976 proudly representing the Peel Regional Police Service and Peel Region throughout the province of Ontario and beyond. The band wears the Red MacPherson tartan and a distinctive black and white diced Glengarry in keeping ...
From Cumnock in Ayrshire, the eldest of two sons to Graham and Sheena Walker, a coal miner and seemstress. Gordon received his first lessons on the practice chanter from the late Pipe Major David Kay (also from Cumnock) at the tender age of 4 years and 6 months.
Indeed so ...
Pipedown are a 4 piece Scottish band with the lineup: Lee Moore (Highland and Scottish smallpipes), Axel Campbell (mandolins), Steve Reid (acoustic guitar) and Steve Fivey (percussion).
They play fresh arrangements of traditional and modern piping tunes from Scotland and Ireland, influenced as much by Breton and Bulgarian folk music as ...
Rob has recorded eight CDs of historical Scottish lute and guitar music, three of which reached the Number One position in the Scottish Classical Music Chart. In 2001 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for his research into medieval Scottish music, which led him to studying with Sufi musicians in ...
Roddy 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 which became ...
Rough Tides is a new band from Glasgow who are playing Irish/Scottish trad. music.
Members: Padraig O'Neill (Melodeon), Simon McKerrell (pipes), with Ewan Robertson (guitar) or Julia Reid (Bouzouki, Vocals) on accompaniment.
[audio:Rough_Tides-The_Flood.mp3]
The Saffron United Pipe Band is one of the most well-known bands in the eastern United States. Based in Babylon, NY, the Band was formed by a small group of piping enthusiasts from the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Division 2 in 1962, making SUPB one of the oldest pipe ...
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 ...
Seudan - Pronounced Shaytan. Gaelic – Jewels or Treasures
An ensemble of highland pipes and bouzouki established with one thing in mind - to play in a rhythmic, communicative and exciting way. The music is alive and vital, communicating the whole gamut of emotions.
Na Tri Seudan translates as The Three Treasures ...
The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada was formed in 1966 during the university's inaugural year. Over the years, it has become a respected institution in the community and has brought fame to B.C. with its capture of national and international prizes.
Led ...
St Andrew’s College is a co-educational independent school located in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Pipe Band at the College has 90 years of history and tradition behind it, since the first band was founded by the College in 1919. Over the years, many highlights and successes have ...
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 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band is a grade one competitive band that has excelled in both competitive and performance circles since its debut in 1982. Led since its inception by Pipe Major Bill Livingstone, the band is renowned throughout the world for its competitive resilience and ...
The James Graham Trio first performed together at the opening concert of the Hebridean Celtic Festival in 2005. The 2004 BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year winner James Graham is joined by James Ross on piano and Neil Johnstone on cello, both of whom possess formidable reputations as ...
Based in Sydney, The Pipeband Club Australia, current Grade 1 Australian & South Pacific Champions brings together top players from all around Australia, and stretches its membership to New Zealand, Europe and the United Kingdom. During 2009, the playing group competed at its fifth consecutive World Pipe Band Championships ...
The explosive acoustically driven sound of the thirteen piece Treacherous Orchestra has landed on Planet Earth.
Acoustic instruments shouldn't be able to sound this huge. The new generation of tune'n'groove-led Instrumental Folk Music has arrived but who the hell is responsible for lighting the stick of musical dynamite placed beneath this ...
A native of Campbeltown, Willie has won almost every prize in solo piping and most several times over. He received his main tuition from his uncles Ronald and Hugh and also came under the guidance of P/M Ronald McCallum, MBE.
In 2008 he won the overall titles The Metro Cup in ...
The Xeremia is the traditional bagpipe of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. In 2001 the "Associació Cultural Xeremiers de Sóller" was created in Sóller (Mallorca)- Spain. Its main purpose is the investigation, the dissemination and the spread of the music related to the folk instruments of the Balearic Islands and ...
Alasdair Gillies
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 ...
Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band
The Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band was formed in 1982 as the Edmonton Caledonia Pipe Band and drew its membership from the Edmonton area. As years went by and the talent pool grew deeper and wider, members were drawn from throughout the province of Alberta, hence the eventual name change to Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band. The band has continued to pursue ...
Allan MacDonald
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 song. The ...
Angus MacColl
Angus MacColl hails from Benderloch near Oban. He comes from an illustrious piping familyand is the Great Grand Nephew of the legendary John MacColl. Angus has a tremendous track record in competitive piping. In 1992 he won the Gold Medal at Inverness and in 1996 he won the Gold Medal ...
Armagh Pipers Club
Armagh Pipers Club was founded in 1966, and has just celebrated 40 years of musical activity in the Armagh area. Dedicated to the development of traditional music, the Club has achieved worldwide acclaim, particularly for its innovative music education programme. APC has been in the forefront of producing teaching materials ...
Auckland & District Pipe Band
The Auckland & District Pipe Band are based in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, and have carved a tradition of performing a strong musical performance wherever they play.
'A&D' (as they are affectionately known), are the 2010 Grade 1 New Zealand Champions after defending the title they won in 2009. The ...
Bagad Cap Caval
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 ...
Barluath
Barluath were formed in January 2010 when Scots singer Mick West asked Colin Greaves to provide entertainment for the Partick Folk Club's annual Burns Super. The band were made up of students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. After the Burns Night the members decided to keep on playing together. Since then they have done a ...
Battlefield Band
Under the banner “Forward with Scotland’s Past,” BATTLEFIELD BAND has been performing on the international scene for more than three decades. Inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength of the modern Scottish cultural scene, Battlefield Band mixes the old songs and tunes with ...
Black Rose Ceilidh Band
Alasdair MacCuish & the Black Rose Ceildih Band were formed in the early nineties at the height of the Ceilidh dance revival in Glasgow and have long been recognised as the 'leading lights' of the ceilidh band world.
Their style is very much focused on the demands of the dancer but musically they draw on influences from the wider ...
Boghall and Bathgate Novice Juvenile Pipe Band
One aspect of the Boghall & Bathgate organisation of which we are extremely proud is the band's continued involvement in teaching piping and drumming to the youngsters of the local area and beyond. The organisation is world renowned for its highly successful Juvenile bands and the amount of time and effort ...
Breabach
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 ...
Bruce Gandy
Bruce Gandy is an instructor for the Halifax Citadel Regimental Association’s School of Piping and Drumming and a piper with Grade 1 78 Highlanders (Halifax Citadel) Pipe Band in Nova Scotia and is also a top ranking international solo piper. A double Gold Medallist and four time winner of New York’s Metro Cup competition, Bruce Gandy began his piping career ...
Canterbury Caledonian Society’s Pipe Band
The Canterbury Caledonian Society’s Pipe Band is based in Christchurch, in the South Island, New Zealand. The Pipe Band was formed in 1902 and is one of New Zealand’s premier Grade 1 pipe bands.
Today the Canterbury Caledonian Society oversees 4 pipe bands, a Highland dancing section and a Scottish Country ...
Capercaillie
From their homeland roots of Argyll in the highlands of Scotland, Capercaillie have been credited with being the major force in bringing traditional Celtic music to the world stage and inspiring the great resurgence so evident today.
Since the band's first innovative recordings of 1984, they have toured in 30 ...
City of Regina Pipe Band
The City of Regina Pipe Band [CRPB] has been Saskatchewan's champion pipe band since 1992. The band has competed successfully against North America's best Grade 2 bands, and has been in the prize list at Highland Games across North America and in Scotland.
Band performances have included the Mid-Winter Celtic Festival, ...
Cullen Pipe Band
The Cullen Pipe Band was founded in 1941 and the present day band continues the great musical tradition that has been part and parcel of this unique part of Ireland. The band has played a major role in the life of the local community because at one ...
Daimh
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 ...
Dr Angus MacDonald
From Glenuig in Moidart, the oldest of three piping brothers. He began piping initially at home then at school under P/M John MacKenzie. While a Glasgow University he took piobaireachd tuition from Roderick MacDonald of South Uist. He played for several years in the British Caledonian Airways Pipe Band ...
Ecletnica Pagus
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 ...
Fergus Muirhead
Fergus Muirhead has hosted Concerts at every Piping Live Festival as well as at the popular William Kennedy Festival in Armagh. He is also greatly in demand as a speaker at Burns Suppers all over Europe.
He can be seen regularly on BBC Scotland’s flagship News Programme Reporting Scotland and heard ...
Finlay MacDonald
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
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. ...
Fred Morrison
Fred Morrison is widely regarded as one of the greatest Scottish pipers alive today. His performances on the Highland, bellows blown and uilleann pipes and on the low whistle have taken the world music scene by storm.
His approach is firmly rooted in the musical tradition of the Hebridean islands ...
Glenn Brown
Glenn Brown is 26 years old and originally from Milton, Ontario, Canada. He is currently living in Glasgow, Scotland with his girlfriend Anna. Glenn is a piper with the ScottishPower Pipe Band and teaches at The National Piping Centre. For the past 8 years Glenn has studied with Mr. Willie McCallum. Some notable prizes within the last few years include, ...
Griogair Labhruidh
Griogair belongs to the well known Labhruidh family of North Argyll who are renowned in Scotland for Highland music. There have been numerous Gaelic singers and pipers among his forebears and Griogair’s father passed on the piping tradition to him, making Highland music an intrinsic part of his upbringing. ...
Hugh Cheape
Having been Principal Curator in the National Museums of Scotland, Hugh Cheape moved to the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2007 where he manages a research programme Cultar Dùthchasach agus an Àrainneachd ('Material Culture & the Environment') as Research Professor at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre ...
Inveraray & District Pipe Band
Inveraray & District Pipe Band was formed in 2005 by world renowned solist piper Stuart Liddell whose aim was to encourage youngsters into the world of piping and to recreate a pipe band in Inveraray. The juvenile band consisting of members all under the age of ...
Jack Lee
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 Mackenzie & Craig Muirhead
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 ...
Julian Goodacre
Julian Goodacre has a passion for bagpipes. An innovative maker of unusual bagpipes, he has established a reputation both among pipe-makers and pipers for his oblique approach to piping and to the world in general. All his pipes are made from British hardwoods or yews; he knows where most of ...
Julie Fowlis
Julie’s debut album “Mar A Tha Mo Chridhe (As My Heart Is)” quickly established a new, rising star in the Scots Gaelic firmament. The follow up album “Cuilidh” – the title roughly translates as a sanctuary for precious possessions – was a watershed, taking the musical culture of the Western ...
Kintyre Schools Pipe Band
The Creation
Kintyre Schools Pipe Band was formed in October 2000, in response to a demand from a small group of young musicians to provide a structure for their collective piping and drumming interests. It sparked a local revival in juvenile piping, after years in the ...
LA Scots Pipe Band
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 eleventh 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 ...
Marco Foxo
Marco started playing Galician Gaita at the age of 5 years in the Escola Provincial de Gaitas de la Diputación de Ourense, and achieved the diploma as teacher at the age of 18. Actually he teaches in this School. He has been playing as soloist of the Real Banda de ...
Neil Johnstone
Born in 1963, the youngest son of the acclaimed piper and composer Duncan Johnstone, Neil began playing the ‘Cello at the age of eleven. At the age of 15 he performed his first solo concerto with the Glasgow Schools Orchestra and the Strathclyde Schools Orchestra. In 1975 he was ...
New Westminster Police Pipe Band
Celebrating its first anniversary, the New Westminster Police Pipe Band is the current Grade 2 Pacific Northwest Champion. Prior to 2008, the band was previously known as the Maple Ridge Pipe Band and recognized its 60th anniversary during the year.
The band's many accomplishments ...
Oran Mor Pipe Band
The Oran Mor Pipe Band, based in Albany, New York, is internationally competitive at the Grade I level.
The band’s annual schedule takes its members who hail from all corners of the northeastern United States to contests and performances throughout the Northeast and Canada.
Since its formation in 1992, the band ...
Patrick Molard
Born in 1951 in Saint-Malo in North Brittany, Patrick started playing the pipes at the age of 14 in his local bagad in 1965.
Two years later, he joined the An Ere Pipe Band from Rennes under the direction of Jakez Pincet, his first Pìobaireachd instructor, who introduced him to ...
Paul Ritchie
Born in Aberdeen, Paul was first taught the practise chanter at age 10 by his beloved, late Granda, George Sim Ritchie, who was a former Pipe-Major and Captain of the 1st Fraserburgh Company Boys’ Brigade. Shortly after, Paul joined the learners’ group of the 47th Culter Boys’ Brigade Pipe Band, ...
Peel Regional Police Pipe Band
The Peel Regional Police Pipe Band which hales from Brampton Ontario, Canada, was formed in 1976 proudly representing the Peel Regional Police Service and Peel Region throughout the province of Ontario and beyond. The band wears the Red MacPherson tartan and a distinctive black and white diced Glengarry in keeping ...
Pipe Major Gordon Walker
From Cumnock in Ayrshire, the eldest of two sons to Graham and Sheena Walker, a coal miner and seemstress. Gordon received his first lessons on the practice chanter from the late Pipe Major David Kay (also from Cumnock) at the tender age of 4 years and 6 months.
Indeed so ...
Pipedown
Pipedown are a 4 piece Scottish band with the lineup: Lee Moore (Highland and Scottish smallpipes), Axel Campbell (mandolins), Steve Reid (acoustic guitar) and Steve Fivey (percussion).
They play fresh arrangements of traditional and modern piping tunes from Scotland and Ireland, influenced as much by Breton and Bulgarian folk music as ...
Rob MacKillop
Rob has recorded eight CDs of historical Scottish lute and guitar music, three of which reached the Number One position in the Scottish Classical Music Chart. In 2001 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for his research into medieval Scottish music, which led him to studying with Sufi musicians in ...
Roddy MacLeod MBE
Roddy 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 which became ...
Rough Tides
Rough Tides is a new band from Glasgow who are playing Irish/Scottish trad. music.
Members: Padraig O'Neill (Melodeon), Simon McKerrell (pipes), with Ewan Robertson (guitar) or Julia Reid (Bouzouki, Vocals) on accompaniment.
[audio:Rough_Tides-The_Flood.mp3] Rura
Rura is a 4 piece band combining the passions and influences of some of Scotland's most exciting young trad musicians. With a graduate from the BA applied music at Strathclyde and three students currently studying at the RSAMD, including two BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year finalists and an all ireland bodhran champion the quartet ...
Saffron United Pipe Band
The Saffron United Pipe Band is one of the most well-known bands in the eastern United States. Based in Babylon, NY, the Band was formed by a small group of piping enthusiasts from the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Division 2 in 1962, making SUPB one of the oldest pipe ...
ScottishPower Pipe Band
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 ...
Seudan
Seudan - Pronounced Shaytan. Gaelic – Jewels or Treasures
An ensemble of highland pipes and bouzouki established with one thing in mind - to play in a rhythmic, communicative and exciting way. The music is alive and vital, communicating the whole gamut of emotions.
Na Tri Seudan translates as The Three Treasures ...
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada was formed in 1966 during the university's inaugural year. Over the years, it has become a respected institution in the community and has brought fame to B.C. with its capture of national and international prizes.
Led ...
St Andrew’s College Pipe Band
St Andrew’s College is a co-educational independent school located in Christchurch, New Zealand. The Pipe Band at the College has 90 years of history and tradition behind it, since the first band was founded by the College in 1919. Over the years, many highlights and successes have ...
St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band
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 ...
Stuart Liddell
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 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band
The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band is a grade one competitive band that has excelled in both competitive and performance circles since its debut in 1982. Led since its inception by Pipe Major Bill Livingstone, the band is renowned throughout the world for its competitive resilience and ...
The James Graham Trio
The James Graham Trio first performed together at the opening concert of the Hebridean Celtic Festival in 2005. The 2004 BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year winner James Graham is joined by James Ross on piano and Neil Johnstone on cello, both of whom possess formidable reputations as ...
The Pipe Band Club
Based in Sydney, The Pipeband Club Australia, current Grade 1 Australian & South Pacific Champions brings together top players from all around Australia, and stretches its membership to New Zealand, Europe and the United Kingdom. During 2009, the playing group competed at its fifth consecutive World Pipe Band Championships ...
Treacherous Orchestra
The explosive acoustically driven sound of the thirteen piece Treacherous Orchestra has landed on Planet Earth.
Acoustic instruments shouldn't be able to sound this huge. The new generation of tune'n'groove-led Instrumental Folk Music has arrived but who the hell is responsible for lighting the stick of musical dynamite placed beneath this ...
Willie McCallum
A native of Campbeltown, Willie has won almost every prize in solo piping and most several times over. He received his main tuition from his uncles Ronald and Hugh and also came under the guidance of P/M Ronald McCallum, MBE.
In 2008 he won the overall titles The Metro Cup in ...
Xeremiers de Soller
The Xeremia is the traditional bagpipe of Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands. In 2001 the "Associació Cultural Xeremiers de Sóller" was created in Sóller (Mallorca)- Spain. Its main purpose is the investigation, the dissemination and the spread of the music related to the folk instruments of the Balearic Islands and ...