Piping Live!

2026

9th - 14th August 2026

Get your tickets now for the world's biggest week of piping from Sun 9th - Fri 14th August 2026!

Piping Live!

2026

9th - 14th August 2026

Get your tickets now for the world's biggest week of piping from Sun 9th - Fri 14th August 2026!

What's on

August

14TH

The Assembly at Glasgow School of Art

CBAD - MAL + The Nexus Project + DJS

August

9TH

The National Piping Centre

R.G Hardie & Co. Masters Solo Piping Competition: Piobaireachd

August

9TH

The National Piping Centre

R.G. Hardie & Co. Masters Solo Piping Competition: March, Strathspey and Reel

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre - Otago Street

Piping Live! 2026 – CLASP World Amateur Solo Piping Competition (Grade 3 & 4)

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - Centre Stage - Monday

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

Ceilidh Tots - Monday

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - The Bothy - Monday

August

10TH

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street Pipe Bands - Monday

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

A Cartography of Pibroch: Literature and Landscape in the Music of the Pipe

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

Lunchtime Recital Series - Monday - Bruce Gandy

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

The Drum Corp Series: Simon Fraser University Pipe Band

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

Tune Book Launch: Royal Regiment of Scotland Pipe Music Collection

August

10TH

The National Piping Centre

Tunebook launch: The Càirdeas Session Tunebook

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre - Otago Street

Piping Live! 2026 – CLASP World Amateur Solo Piping Competition (Grade 2)

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Make your own Hebridean feadan (practice chanter): Day 1

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Ceilidh Tots - Tuesday

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - The Bothy - Tuesday

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - Centre Stage - Tuesday

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Lunchtime Recital Series - Tuesday - Fin Moore

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Vital Sparks: Mining Musical Treasures with the Pibroch Network

August

11TH

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street Pipe Bands - Tuesday

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

The Drum Corp Series:Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Piping Club - Live!

August

11TH

The National Piping Centre

Live ‘N’ Well @ 30: The Listening Party with Gary West & Enjoy Your Piping

August

11TH

Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

G1 Reeds International Quartet Competition

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

Make your own Hebridean feadan (practice chanter): Day 2

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

Ceilidh Tots - Wednesday

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - The Bothy - Wednesday

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - Centre stage - Wednesday

August

12TH

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street Pipe Bands - Wednesday

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

Lunchtime Recital Series - Wednesday - Murray Henderson

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

The Big Sing 2026

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

The Drum Corp Series: Inveraray & District Pipe Band

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

Pibroch Unchained: Melodies, Phrases and Rhythms’ with Allan MacDonald and Thomas Zoller

August

12TH

The National Piping Centre

TuneSangs: Gary West & Annie Grace

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Ceilidh Tots - Thursday

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - The Bothy - Thursday

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - Centre stage - Thursday

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Lunchtime Recital Series - Thursday - Seonaidh MacIntyre

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Puirt Mhóra on whistle and flute with Dougie Pincock and Ivan Steele

August

13TH

Sauchiehall Street

Sauchiehall Street Pipe Bands - Thursday

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

The Drum Corp Series: St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

The Big Rab Show - Live!

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Fraser Fifield with Ross Ainslie: The Ardoch Suite

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Pipe Idol Grand Final

August

13TH

The National Piping Centre

Tunes for Women, From Women and About Women with Anna Kummerlöw & Susy Klinger

August

13TH

Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

McCallum Bagpipes P/M Alasdair Gillies Memorial Recital Challenge

August

14TH

Glasgow Green

World Pipe Band Championships - Day 1

August

14TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - The Bothy - Friday

August

14TH

The National Piping Centre

Ceilidh Tots - Friday

August

14TH

The National Piping Centre

Festival Site - Centre stage - Friday

August

14TH

The National Piping Centre

Òrain is Amhráin

August

14TH

The National Piping Centre

Gaol nan Gael

August

14TH

The Assembly at Glasgow School of Art

CBAD - MAL + The Nexus Project

August

15TH

Glasgow Green

World Pipe Band Championships - Day 2

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