Teaching Events

A selection of teaching events offering tuition in Lowland / Border pipes or Scottish smallpipes. These events are not organised by the LBPS. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information listed, so please visit the relevant website for full and up-to-date details.

Gigs and Tours

A selection of artists playing Lowland / Border pipes or Scottish smallpipes. Click any card below to visit the artist’s own website for their latest tour and gig information.

  • Brìghde Chaimbeul

    Brìghde Chaimbeul is a pioneering Scottish smallpipes player whose music blends Gaelic tradition with bold experimentation. Known for her hypnotic drone‑based style and fluid virtuosity, she draws on global piping traditions while pushing the instrument into new ambient and avant‑garde territory.

  • Dick Hensold

    Dick Hensold is the leading Northumbrian smallpiper in North America, and for the past 25 years has performed and taught in England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, and across the United States. He also plays Swedish bagpipes, Scottish reel pipes, Highland pipes, recorder, seljefløyte, and low whistle, and is an active composer, studio musician and theater musician.

  • Donald Lindsay

    Donald WG Lindsay is a Scottish musician, traditional singer, songwriter, and instrument inventor whose work reimagines the structural possibilities of bellows piping while remaining grounded in its living tradition. He is best known for creating the Lindsay System for Scottish smallpipes - a redesign that extends the instrument’s core range to two full octaves while preserving traditional fingering and the idiomatic voice of the pipes. With appropriate voicing and reedwork, the system can stretch to nearly three octaves, without requiring keywork. Donald also plays whistle and low whistle, both now in forms of his own Qwistle design.

  • Malin Lewis

    One of Scotland’s most exciting innovators, Malin melds West coast tradition with a newly invented, self-made bagpipe. Hair tingling, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions, human nature, queerness and the universe.

  • Ross Ainslie

    Ross Ainslie is one of Scotland’s finest traditional musicians and composers, playing pipes, whistles and cittern. He is renowned for his highly acclaimed solo material, and as a skilled performer and prolific collaborator who performs regularly with bands Treacherous Orchestra, Salsa Celtica, Dougie Maclean, Ali Hutton, Jarlath Henderson, Charlie Mckerron, Tim Edey, Hamish Napier, Brighde Chaimbeul, Duncan Chisholm and India Alba.

  • Timothy Cummings

    Timothy Cummings is a Vermont-based composer and multi-instrumentalist (chiefly a piper) who enjoys an uncommonly diverse repertoire. His music spans from the contemporary and sacred to the traditional melodies of the British Isles, Appalachia, Cape Breton, Brittany, and beyond. He is also a recording artist, writer, and publisher of piping music.