Pipe Band & Piping Related Sites
ScottishPower Pipe Band
The Toronto Police Pipe Band
The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band
The 78th Fraser Highlanders
The Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band
Simon Fraser University Pipe Band
Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band
"House of Edgar" Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band
The City of Washington Pipe Band
Andrew T. Lenz, Jr.
The Bagpipe Journey is web site made by Andrew. He has lots of good stuff, including a bagpipe terms dictionary, and a piping "who's who".
The Bagpipe Web
A pretty complete list of piping links.
The Pipe Band Forum
A discussion site for piping and drumming enthusiasts.
Piobaireachd.Com The classical music of the Highland pipes. This is a great site for students of piobaireachd.
The Tenor Drummer Web Site
A site dedicated to the art and practice of pipe band tenor drumming.
Highland Games
The Regina Highland Games
The Saskatchewan Pipe Band Championships, solo piping, drumming, Highland dancing and heavy events.
Bridge of Allan Highland Games
A great games by the Allan Water near Stirling.
North Berwick Highland Games
A very good event on Scotland's east coast.
Glengarry Highland Games
The North American Pipe Band Championships at Maxville, Ontario. Also features the Piobaireachd Society Gold Medal Piobaireachd competition.
Fergus Scottish Festival and Bell's Highland Games Another major event in Ontario worth a look!
Skagit Valley Highland Games
Held at Mount Vernon, WA, these games attract bands from all over the Pacific Coast, and in 1999 and 2001 the City of Regina Pipe Band was the "guest band" at the Games.
Pacific Northwest Scottish Games This excellent 2-day event featured SFU, City of Regina, and RMM as the guest bands in 2000.
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Publications
Pipes | Drums
Formerly The Piper & Drummer, this online publication is for anyone interested in piping and drumming. Edited by Andrew Berthoff.
Piping Today This is the magazine of the National Piping Center in Glasgow. It is published in partnership with "The Living Tradition" folk magazine, and it has some good features, strong editorial, and great look.
The VOICE This is the magazine of the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association.
The Piping Times
Published by the College of Piping in Glasgow, Scotland. Caustic editorials, good history features, and too many ads, but a classic read. Edited by Robert Wallace.
Common Stock
The journal of the Lowland and Borders Piping Society.
Organizations
The Alliance of North American Pipe Band Associations
Go here to link to any of North America's 10 pipe band associations.
The Saskatchewan Pipe Band Association
The SPBA sets the games rules for (both) Saskatchewan contests, distributes lottery monies to the bands, and runs an annual summer school.
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
Scotland's association, which runs the World Pipe Band Championships.
Na Piobairi´ Uilleann Something for those who want information on the Irish uilleann bagpipe.
Roots/Traditional Music
Shona LeMottee Shona played the 2007 MWCF with sideman Tim Readman, and they were great! Shona is an excellent player and instructor, and performs across North America.
Kendra MacGillivray Kendra is a fabulous fiddler in the Cape Breton style from Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She and her brother Troy performed at the 1999 and 2000 Mid-Winter Celtic Festival.
Troy MacGillivray
We had Troy out to the MWCF a couple of times with sister Kendra, and then we hosted a concert on one of his solo tours.
Ashley MacLeod
Ashley is a great young fiddler from Glengarry, ON. She performed with the SFU Pipe Band for a couple of years, and we had her to the MWCF in 2006.
Footstompin Scottish Music
A great forum about trad Scots music, and a superb mail order system for CDs, DVDs, books, etc.
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