Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Highland games and cultural festivals in general sit on a financial precipice. They serve an extremely narrow subset of the public in spite of every effort to make…
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Here is Galician piper Susan Seivane kicking it with current Breton champions Bagad Kemper in a concert from 2008. I get the feeling this is an encore set…
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Andrew Berthoff’s recent excellent blog post is spot on and covers a topic that should get more attention on a regular basis. If anything it should constantly be…
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Monday, February 14, 2011
The competition travel season is upon us. The solo boards and band circles across the seaboard and around the globe beckon. Traveling to a bagpipe contest can certainly…
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
A new system of selecting bagpipe and drumming adjudicators would take into account a candidate’s résumé of real world experience and give it the relevance it deserves. The…
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