Record Entry for Archie Kenneth Quaich 2017 The 25th annual Archie Kenneth Quaich competition for amateur piobaireachd players was held in the Royal Scottish Pipers' Society's rooms in Edinburgh on Saturday 4 March. The competition is sponsored by the Piobaireachd Society as one of their ways...
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New edition of book 10
The Piobaireachd Society's Book 10 - Revised Edition 2016 Book 10 of the Piobaireachd Society's collection was first published in 1961 and has been re-printed several times since then. It was the tenth, and last, book edited by the redoubtable Archibald Campbell of Kilberry, who was, at that ...
War or Peace
Thanks to Peter McCalister for this article on War or Peace, or Cogadh no Sith to give it the Gaelic title. There are many different versions reflecting that it was popular and widespread. Tempo of Piobaireachd over the years is always interesting. It first appears in Joseph MacDonald's treati...
Patron’s Fund gift to Piobaireachd Society
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 acc...