From Shetland to Stranraer, young musicians are preparing to take the stage at the Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Championships – the world’s largest celebration of school piping and drumming.

Lieutenant PM Gordon Campbell, piper, composer and bagpipe instructor. Born: 20 May 1957 in Leith. Died: 1 January 2025, aged ...

Ewan Sinclair - of William Sinclair & Son - is one of the last remaining artisans in the world crafting bagpipes by hand.

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A new book recalling the life of groundbreaking musician Martyn Bennett has been published 20 years after he passed away ...

Burns Night is a celebration of the life of the bard Robert Burns, his Scottish poetry, legacy and contribution to Scottish ...

Over 200 years later, this celebration of Burns’s life has endured and morphed into a mid-winter tradition of pipe music ... taking in Burns’s traditional chanter hewn from bone or a letter ...

head of the pipe band programme at Dollar Academy in Scotland and summer school tutor Matt Wilson said. "A lot of the teaching that we do is on a practice chanter, which is a far quieter sound for ...