The Hawai’i Piobaireachd Society

04/05/2026

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Competitors with the last name "Gandy" did very well at the British Columbia Pipers' Association's Annual Gathering, with Alex Gandy winning the MacCrimmon Cairn Open Piobaireachd and Bruce Gandy winning the aggregate Open Championship with an MSR win and Piobaireachd second, punctuating his overall

04/04/2026

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Bruce Gandy - Open Piobaireachd - 2026 BCPA Annual Gathering, April 3 2026, North Delta Secondary School, Delta, BC. MacLeod of Colbeck's Lament

04/04/2026

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Nick Hudson - Open Piobaireachd - 2026 BCPA Annual Gathering, April 3 2026, North Delta Secondary School, Delta, BC. Craigellachie

03/19/2026

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02/05/2026

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With 137 piobaireachds painstakingly edited, notated, and reformatted in standard staff notation, Beyond Binneas by brothers Chris and Pat Terry of South Africa is available in spiral-bound (£30/$57) and hardcover (£35/$67) editions, and for those who purchase either, a free digital version. The

01/07/2026

😎🎶🎶🎶 Congratulations!!! https://pipingpress.com/2020/10/05/premier-piobaireachd-composing-competition-results-announced/

12/10/2025

Very sad news. 💔

James "Jamie" W. Troy died on December 9, 2025, in Victoria, British Columbia, at the age of 83. As pipe-major of the Grade 1 City of Victoria in the 1970s, he played a crucial role in establishing Canada as a serious home to world-class competitive pipe bands. Jamie Troy was born in Moose Jaw, S

12/07/2025

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There are so many in the piping world who Ian McLellan deeply influenced. We asked several of the greatest for their thoughts at this sad time.

12/01/2025

President of the Piobaireachd Society’s Newsletter, November, 2025 “When I became President in 2019, Music Editor Jack Taylor and I embarked on a long journey of revision of the entire collection. It has taken many hours of work, but this year the final comma was added, and, a century after the initial publication of Book 1, we have finished our task.

Gaelic names have been checked and corrected (thanks to Cailean Maclean), missing settings added, anomalies such as the crunluath a mach in Lament for the Children deleted, and basic errors in transliteration (especially in Book 16) put to rights.”

11/29/2025

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The selection from the pibroch, The Prince's Salute, played on the Great Highland Bagpipe by Michael Grey and accompanied by vocals (Ryan MacDonald, Shannon ...

11/21/2025

To mark two decades since the untimely passing of Highland piping and Celtic music legend Gordon Duncan, the Celtic Arts Foundation will celebrate his legacy in "The Music of Gordon Duncan" on Sunday, December 7th, at the Littlefield Celtic Center, Mount Vernon, Washington, with all music performed,