Piping Live Festival 2008 - Glasgow

The 2008 piping live Festival in Glasgow, the fifth, started last Monday 11th August and finishes on Saturday 16th August with the World Pipe Band Championship on Glasgow Green, where the expected audience will be around 40,000! The piping live Festival will take place in several venues all over Glasgow and include the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, The National piping Centre which serves as a national and international centre of excellence for the great Highland Bagpipe and its music, and George Square at the heart of the city which is the main open-air stage of piping live!

Some of the artist are Edinburgh-born Steven Blake who has been a music scholar at Stewart Melville’s College for seven years, the first piper to receive such a scholarship, Rough Tides, which is a new band from Glasgow who are playing Irish/Scottish traditional music and Fergus Muirhead who played at every piping live Festival. He is also greatly in demand as a speaker at burns Suppers all over Europe. Some of the other artist are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Skipinnish and a great number of pipers and pipe band.

Some concerts have to be booked in advance while others are free. For a complete overview of venues, artists and bookings hake a look at the official piping live Festival Website