We are pleased to announce that the RSPBA will again be holding the World Solo Drumming Championship in 2023 Saturday 21st October 2023 Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, Cowcaddens Rd, Glasgow G4 0BA On behalf of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association we invite you to enter the World Solo Snare Drumming and World Solo …
Please see below the qualifier results from Saturday 19th August 2023
The BBC livestream for the World Pipe Band Championship 2023 for the Saturday performances is: www.bbc.co.uk/worlds
Entry form HERE Entry Rules HERE
As Glasgow gears up to wave goodbye to the UCI Cycling World Championships, preparations are gathering pace for the city’s next global competitive event. It’s now just a week until The World Pipe Band Championships – a spectacular highlight of Scotland’s annual cultural calendar that’s always highly anticipated and extremely popular. This year’s ‘Worlds’ will …
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The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association would like to say a big thank you to John Nevans, Allan Craig, Keith A Bowes, Keith J Bowes, Cameron Lawson and Josh Esson for their dedication, hard work and commitment in bringing together a very successful “Wake Up, Shake Up” 2023 Summer School. This year we had a …
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The pipes that John is playing are between 200-225 years old. The students could not believe how different they sounded to todays pipes.
What a brilliant week we had at the Summer School. Here are a few pictures to prove it. A big thank you goes out to our teaching team for this year, John, Allan, Cameron, our father and son team of Keith Bowes Senior and Junior for all of the hard work they put into making …
The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association (RSPBA) would like to publicly apologise to Field Marshal Montgomery and Inveraray and District Pipe Bands who have been impacted by a compiling error in determining the result of the Grade 1 Best Drumming Prize at the Scottish Pipe Band Championships 2023 at Dumbarton. Investigations began on the 30th …
Scottish Pipe Band Championships – amendment to the Grade 1 Drumming Result Read More »
A special welcome to Steven McWhirter who has joined us on day four of our 2023 “Wake Up, Shake Up Summer School”. Steven spent some time with all of our drumming students, first in the class room he discussed how to develop and execute some key rudiments. Steven presented a master class for all of …
