International Bagpipe DayInternational Bagpipe Day was first celebrated on 10 March 2012.
International Bagpipe Day was created after an idea by Andy Letcher, the Bagpipe Society's publicity officer. As he imagined ways of promoting the diversity of bagpipes to the greater public, PhD student Cassandre Balosso-Bardin thought to organise a bagpipe conference. The First International Bagpipe Conference launched International Bagpipe Day world wide as it gathered scholars, musicians and instrument makers from all around Europe. International Bagpipe Day is now being celebrated every year all around the world. The International Conferences occur every 2 years. Local pipers have organised events in many places include Minsk (Belarus), Athens (Greece), Texas Tech Uni (USA), Haninge (Sweden), London, Oxford, Chester, Glasgow (UK), Nigeria and Iran. Links IBD events 2015 Images of IBD 2013 organised by the Bagpipe Society at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford Flicker gallery OxfordMail article about IBD 2013 Making Bags of Sound More about the Bagpipe Society More about the International Bagpipe Organisation |
IBD 2013 in Nigeria with Scottish Power Pipe Band led by Pipe Major Chukwu Oba Kalu, playing at an orphanage
IBD 2013 at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, featuring Mano Panforreteiro and Gerardo Albela González on the Galician bagpipes
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