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Matt MacIsaac is the focus of a new interview about The MacIsaac Collection – Volume 1 and the way he approaches composing. The piece also offers advice aimed at pipers and pipe band drummers who want to write original music.
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Jeannie Campbell MBE continues her historical research series on piping and pipers in Dundee in the 1800s.
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Entries open on 27 October for the Scottish Pipers’ Association’s annual Juvenile Solo Piping Competition in Glasgow on 5 December. Young pipers will compete in age categories for piobaireachd, light music and a four-part event.
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Entries for the Scottish Pipers’ Association juvenile competition go live at 19:00 on 27 October. The competition itself is set for 5 December at the National Piping Centre on Otago Street.
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The RSPBA has set its 2027 band registration fees at the same rates as this year and warned that payment is due by 30 November to avoid a 20% surcharge. Separate rates apply for juveniles, new bands and overseas entrants.
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BCPA is promoting St. Andrew’s Ball & Ceilidh with St. Andrew’s & Caledonian Society of Vancouver, set for Saturday, 28 November at the Vancouver Scottish Cultural Centre. The event is reported as 85% sold out.
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The 100% Collective of 28 female pipers and drummers marched through Quiberon, Brittany, on 25 October en route to the Festival Presqu’île Breizh. Drum-Major Emma Barr led the group at the front.
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Pipe Bands Australia has opened its 2026 Member Engagement Survey and is asking members and the wider pipe band community to help guide the association’s future direction.
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Kyle Wardell has left the 78th Fraser Highlanders after five months, while Mark Passmore and most of Ottawa Highlanders’ drum section have joined the band as part of a change in the Grade 1 drum corps.
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Brodie Watson-Massey reviews The MacIsaac Collection of Pipe Music Volume 1, compiled, edited and published by Matt MacIsaac. The book gathers 75 compositions and arrangements and is available in print-plus-pdf or pdf-only editions.
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When the Pipers Play is a new history of the Great Highland Bagpipes, with sales helping support today’s Armed Forces community. The book is being promoted as a charitable project tied to that cause.
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The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association has appointed Meaghan Lyons as its new chief executive. The move is being welcomed in piping circles for her business background and experience across the pipe band world.
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