Launch of Piping Live 2024 from caramel recipe bbc Watch Video

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GLASGOW. <br/><br/>Glasgow is set to host Scotland’s biggest week of bagpipes this summer, with the return of Piping Live! from Saturday 10th - Sunday 18th August, and The World Pipe Band Championships on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th August.<br/><br/>To mark the launch of these world-renowned events, renowned bagpiper and BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2023 finalist Ailis Sutherland, Croft No. Five drummer Paul Jennings and celebrated piper, composer and teacher John Mulhearn, alongside World Pipe Band Championships competitor Emma Hill - who is competing with the Glasgow Skye Association Pipe Band in Grade 2 this year - all performed at the front of Saint Lukes in the east end of the city. A new venue for Piping Live! 2024. <br/><br/>The world’s biggest piping festival, Piping Live! attracts over 30,000 attendees to Glasgow each year, with an eclectic programme of events for pipers and music lovers alike to be held at venues across the city.<br/><br/>The World Pipe Band Championships – a major event which Glasgow first hosted in 1948 and the city has staged every year since 1986 – attracts thousands of pipers and drummers from all over the world to compete in the ultimate ‘battle of the bands’.