Learn@Live! workshop series returns for 2025. Bruce Hitchings MBE BEM presents 'Sound Affects'
Date and time
2025-08-14 10:30:00
Venue
The National Piping Centre
Tickets
Tickets: £10 Std / £9 Over 65s + Under 16s + £1.50 booking fee per ticket
This event must be bought in conjunction with a festival site ticket. Once you have purchased your site ticket, a £2.50 discount will be applied to the price of the event ticket.
Tickets to this event MUST BE bought in conjunction with a Thursday site ticket or Festival Week Pass
The link above takes you to Festival Site Day tickets. Once you have bought this you will then be able to access the Learn@Live tickets.
Consonance, resonance, harmonics and musical ‘colour' Bruce Hitchings MBE BEM – with the help of Fred Morrison, Iain Speirs and a Quartet from Peoples Ford Boghall and Bathgate Pipe Band– illustrates why you need to understand that your drones ARE the instrument.
The Venue
The National Piping Centre
The centre serves as a national and international centre of excellence for the great Highland Bagpipe and its music.
The Festival Site with the Centre Stage and Bothy Tent, as our food and drink tents will be on outside here on McPhater Street.
PLEASE BE AWARE
- You will need a Festival Site Day ticket (or Week Pass) to access the events from the 11th -15th of August e.g. you will need a Tuesday Festival Site ticket (or week pass) to access the Tuesday Lunchtime Recital and Learn@Live events. Please only purchase indoor events for the days you have a site ticket or pass for.
- If you arrive at the Festival Site without a valid day/week entry ticket you will be required to buy one at the door.
Date and time
2025-08-14 10:30:00
Venue
The National Piping Centre
Tickets
Tickets: £10 Std / £9 Over 65s + Under 16s + £1.50 booking fee per ticket
This event must be bought in conjunction with a festival site ticket. Once you have purchased your site ticket, a £2.50 discount will be applied to the price of the event ticket.
Tickets to this event MUST BE bought in conjunction with a Thursday site ticket or Festival Week Pass
The link above takes you to Festival Site Day tickets. Once you have bought this you will then be able to access the Learn@Live tickets.
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0141 353 0220
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