The Sons of Scotland Pipe Band from Ottawa, Canada, had the great honour this past August to visit Scotland to perform at a number of events including the World Pipe Band Championships, at Blair Atholl and Stirling Castles, as Canadian representatives in the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Pre-Worlds Parade through Glasgow, and in their […]
The Eastern Ontario Branch of the PPBSO has had an active history, with a website dedicated to the activities of the branch for many years. The first official newsletter posted on the PPBSO Eastern Ontario Branch website was in March of 1997. At the time, Brian Williamson was president with Murray Bond and Graeme Ogilvie […]
The music and words were written by James Macpherson, a notorious gypsy freebooter who operated in the counties of Aberdeen, Banff and Moray, who was hanged 07 November 1700. Born around 1675, he was the son of a beautiful gypsy woman and a highland laird, Macpherson of Invershie, Inverness-Shire. While still in his youth, his […]
Bagpipes an environmental threat? They were once outlawed for being used as weapons of war. Now, bagpipes have been blasted as an environmental menace. Over-intensive logging means that the African wood used to make Scotland’s national instrument faces being wiped out. Conservation groups are letting out skirls of protest, urging musicians and instrument manufacturers to […]
