Does your Pipe band have an open door?

After starting my bagpipe career at Helix High School in La Mesa, California in 1972, my family moved north to Newport Beach. The month before Helix had just put on their Highland Games. As I was licking my wounds from the move and looking at the games brochure that...

Is your Pipe Band Dying a Slow Death?

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking to a pipe band colleague who has been involved with the same pipe band for the last 30 some years. I asked him how his band was doing and he told me that they were burning out. He said that attendance and membership were down....