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Something New first. A couple of months ago I wrote about an incipient new piobaireachd resource I had discovered while speculatively trawling the web – a site of performance downloads from Roddy MacLeod, M.B.E. Roddy is one of the World’s top pipers and is the Principal of the National Piping Centre in Glasgow. His piobaireachd . . . → Read More: Piobaireachd Resources – Something Old, Something New I join interesting pipe bands. Because I am a member of a band with close connections to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church, to those of you unfamiliar with Utah culture), I will be ringing in the New Year tonight at the former Hotel Utah, now known as the Joseph . . . → Read More: The NHL and the LDS Church will help me ring in the New Year At this point I have access to over 100 different piobaireachd tunes, gleaned from various sources – many freely available on the web. I have decided to spend some quality time with a few of the tunes for which I have multiple performances, to get a handle on how different pipers interpret the tunes. Ken Eller, . . . → Read More: The Old Men of the Shells – A Watery Grave I’m fresh back from the Utah Pipe Band’s inaugural David Barclay Memorial competition. It was very smart of the UPB to organize an indoor competition at a time when next season seems so far off. The competition was well-supported and well-organized, despite the biggest snowstorm of the season showing up as a snowy white . . . → Read More: I am better than half of the pipers a third of my age The Bob Dunsire Forums are a mine of interesting information, beyond being a simple meeting place for pipers and drummers. I recently started a discussion thread at the forums asking for more information about “The Lost Pibroch”, the story I wrote about last month. That thread has been the scene of some interesting discussion and today . . . → Read More: Lost – several pibrochs. If found, please return to the present. Lovers of piobaireachd should definitely check out BBC Radio Scotland’s Pipeline show this week. The star of the show this week (10th November, 2007) is a beautiful performance of a tune that actually has no name. I suppose this is an artifact of oral transmission, but many tunes in the ancient piobaireachd canon have . . . → Read More: Cherede Darievea – the tune with no name |
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