SCHOOLS CoP Christmas Course – 27th, 28th December and 3rd & 4th January: £60 for four day course CoP Winter School – 19th-26th February 2012; Homburg, Saarland, Germany CoP Highland School – 31st March-6th April 2012; info@highlandreeds.com California Summer School – 15th-22nd June 2012; Army Navy Academy, Carlsbad (tbc) CoP New England School – 5th-11th July 2012; The Governor’s Academy, Byfield,MA All course can be booked online at www. college-of-piping.co.uk or call 0141 334 3587.
EVENTS Celtic Connections 2012:19th January – Sunday 5th February 28th Jan – 12 noon: Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band with Lothian & Borders Police Pipe Band – Royal Concert Hall 28th Jan – 8.00pm:Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Anderson –Piping Centre 29th Jan – 1pm: Gordon Duncan Memorial Piping Recital –Piping Centre 31st Jan – 7.30pm: Fred Morrison – Royal Concert Hall Visit www.celticconnections.com for information on all of the above 10th March – International Bagpipe Day will be the first ever International Bagpipe Day, a day to celebrate the world’s pipes and piping traditions – www.bagpipesociety.org.uk 21st April – Kintyre Piping Society Junior Piping Championships: W McCallum 01586 552508
23rd March – College Lecture, Birnam Hotel, Perthshire 23rd-25th March – Piobaireachd Society Conference, Birnam Hotel, Perthshire BANDS Championships 2012 Scottish, Dumbarton, 19th May British,Annan, 30th June European, Belfast, 28th July Worlds, Glasgow, 11th August Cowal, Dunoon, 25th August OVERSEAS 13-15 Jan –Winter Storm, Kansas City: workshops, competition and concert. Full details at www.WinterStorm.net 18th Feb – 2012 Metro Cup, Ramada Inn, Frontage Road,Newark,New Jersey. Contact: contact@themetrocup.com BELLOWS Glasgow Session every Friday; Malcolm MacInnes 0141 429 4755 Meeting, 1st & 3rdThurs each month NE England; S. Barwick 0191 286 3545 Group Meeting, monthly NW England. R.& A. Evans 016974 73799 Group meeting 3rdThursday each month except July & August, London; J. Agnew 01621 855447 RADIO College of Piping Radio is available on demand at www.college-of-piping.co.uk; solo and bands; archive spot; history, interviews, and informed comment. BBC’s
‘Pipeline’ is on FM
92.4/97.7MHz;MW810 (Dumfries 585) and on Radio nan Gaidheal FM 103.5- 105 at 9.05pm on Sat-urdays and repeated at 7.05pm on Sundays. Also on Radio nan Gaidheal ‘Crunluath’ with Cailean MacLean at 4pm on Thursdays with repeats at 10.30pm on Thursdays.
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