The Piobaireachd Society is very grateful to have received £2500 from the Patron’s Fund. This fund was set up to benefit charities of whom The Queen is Patron, on the occasion of her 90th birthday.  The gift will be used to extend funding of our bursary which gives young pipers without easy access to a […]

Mary’s Praise is set for the Gold Medals this year. It has been written in many different ways other than how it appears in Piobaireachd Society book and the Kilberry book.  Peter McCalister looks at some of these here.

Keeping Piobaireachd Alive was a thread running through this enjoyable weekend. Donald MacLeod kept Piobaireachd alive by composing and teaching. His pupil John Wilson, delivering the College of Piping lecture, talked of how Donald had said to him, aged 10, that he would be “searching the fibres of your musical soul” to ensure John put […]

We would like to have recordings of as much of the Piobaireachd Repertoire as possible. If you have, or would like like to make, a good quality recording of any of the tunes below and are willing to have it displayed on the PS website, please send it to us.  We cannot display recordings which […]