Piping Live! Big Band Parade 2025 🎶 - Don't Miss the Return of the Big Band Spectacle!

Piping Live! Big Band parade 2025<br /><br />The Big Band is Back for 2025! <br /><br />The Piping Live! Big Band will return for its 8th showcase at this year’s festival. Pipers of all ages and abilities are invited to take part. In 2025, the Big Band will parade from Mansefield Park in Partick to the concourse at the iconic Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It will step off on this 0.5mile route at 12noon, arriving at the museum around 12.20pm.<br /><br />The Piping Live! Big Band is a mass participation event that opens our festival. 200 pipers will gather, ranging from young learners playing their chanters, to seasoned professionals playing the pipes in their retirement.<br /><br />The Big Band will walk the streets of Glasgow performing a repertoire of tunes that everyone can play. The Piping Live! Big Band is open to anyone who plays a practice chanter, bagpipes, snare, bass or tenor drum, or is a drum major! All ages are welcome. Past events welcomed musicians aged 8-86.<br /><br />This year, the event is supporting Scotland-based charity the Eilidh MacLeod Memorial Trust, which was established in honour of the talented piper, Eilidh MacLeod, who died at age 14 in May of 2017 from the Manchester Arena Attack after the Ariana Grande concert. The trust aims to bring children and young people into the piping and musical communities by supporting their musical education in all genres and disciplines. The Eilidh MacLeod Memorial Trust has supported thousands of young musicians, offering them the opportunity to discover and share the same deep love of music that Eilidh MacLeod cherished.