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December Update 2023

We don't quite know where the last six months went! We managed to pack a fair bit in to that time. The annual Airth Highland Games was held on Sat 22 July, and Neil was privileged to play for the British Open Professional Highland Dancing Championships, It was a tough...

Summer 2023

As we haven't posted any news since December last year, we thought it was time for an update! 2023 has proved to be busy so far, partly due to Neil deciding to do another '100 Days of Piping' series. The year began with a few wee local gigs for us for Burns' Night,...

End-of-year update 2022

It's been a busy time here at Falkirk Piping, since our last news post. Our charity walk across all the Forth Bridges for Maggie's Forth Valley was a success, with fine weather on the day and a great support team. An amazing sum of £1,126 was raised. We took lots of...

Late Summer Update

Hi folks! Just a wee update to let you know what's coming up for us in the next few weeks, and what we've been up to since the last news post. Following on from the Maggie's to Maggie's charity canal walk which we did in May, Neil will be piping across (and back)...

May 2022 Update

It's hard to believe that we're into May already! Slowly, things are getting back to a sort of normality after the constraints of the pandemic. We have a few things lined up this year for both piping and the folk duo, so keep an eye on our Facebook page and YouTube...

End of year round-up 2021

Well, here we are again, at the end of another year...a year not without its challenges! We did a few online 'gigs' from home, for Burns' Night, St Valentine's Day and St Patrick's Day. The one planned for April, in commemoration of the Battle of Culloden, had to be...

Piping 100 Challenge

We mentioned in our Autumn news update that Neil has been recording a different tune on Highland Pipes each day as part of this challenge. We'd like to highlight a couple of places that we used recently for these recordings, which we think may be of interest. On 5...

Autumn 2021

We've had quite a busy time since the last update, as Neil took on a challenge to play a different tune on Highland Pipes every day for 100 days, and we've been recording and uploading them to our YouTube channel. We had a week's holiday on Mull and continued the...

Summer 2021

Wow, what a roaster it’s been! Scotland has basked in high temperatures for the last few weeks, and it looks set to continue. We’d like to draw your attention to this year’s Tryst Festival, which is having to be held entirely online due to Covid restrictions. However,...

News: Spring 2021

We finally seem to be easing out of what has felt like a very long lockdown! What a strange time it has been...although Neil is grateful for the many pupils who have continued to receive lessons online throughout this time, and to new pupils who have joined us or been...

Upcoming Events

As it seems unlikely that we'll be able to perform any gigs at real venues in the near future, we've decided to plan some online livestream events. These will go out on Facebook live but will be available to view on YouTube afterwards. The first of these will be...

Happy New Year

We have to admit that in many ways, we were quite relieved to leave 2020 behind! We finished the year by joining in with Falkirk Folk Club's virtual Hogmanay session. The Manx set which we submitted as part of it can be viewed on our YouTube channel - it's a mix of 4...

2020 News

Wow, what a year..! When we finished up last year after all our gigs and said we'd like 2020 to be a bit quieter, this wasn't quite what we had in mind...anyway, the start of the year was fairly hectic - we moved house on 21 Jan, to a property more suited to teaching...

2019 Round-up: Piping and Folk Duo

Wow, what a year 2019 turned out to be for us! It was a real mixed bag of musical events that challenged and uplifted us and we met some wonderful people along the way. As Glenbervie Folk Duo, we did 37 gigs in the year. With piping gigs added, we did 20 in the local...

2019 Round-up: Teaching

2019 has been an exceptional year for teaching at Falkirk Piping! Neil has been delighted with the number of pupils who have signed up to learn bagpipes, or to improve their playing, and with those who have stayed on from previous years. There have been a few new...

Midsummer Update 2019

We had a fantastic trip to San Diego in April, having been invited by the House of Scotland to perform at their Tartan Day in Balboa Park. We also did a gig at the Fourpenny Inn (Scottish pub) and a concert in the House of Nations, where Neil had the honour of playing...

February 2019 update!

Sorry for the delay in updating our news, but we thought we'd wait until a few events were confirmed. 2019 is going to be a very busy year for us...lots of teaching, gigs and travel! Here's a run down of events: Mar 2: Yae Glintin' Licht at the Torphichen Inn, 2-7pm...

Autumn news 2018

Well, apart from our slot at the Linlithgow Folk Festival, Sep and Oct were quite quiet for Glenbervie, mainly due to family commitments. However, things are picking up in the run up to Christmas! Neil has increased his teaching days to Sunday - Thursday, due to a...