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International Bagpipe Day

Location:- Worldwide (Various locations)
Frequency:Annually
First edition:2012
Organisation:Bagpipe Society
Website:www.bagpipesociety.org.uk
Contact:info@bagpipesociety.org.uk
Info:An internationally spread event, held on 12 March. Pipers are invited "to go out and play their pipes – anywhere, anyhow to anyone!". The website mentions that the 2013 edition was held in the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford), &c., and that the Society received reports, ranging from a pipe band performance in an underground cavern in South Africa, a party on an Athenian hill in Greece, and even the celebration in Nigeria.