From a distance, it may appear that Garrett Thompson and Jake Newcomb are playing recorders, those plastic instruments beloved by fourth-graders everywhere. These two middle-school boys have a loftier ...

We've got a piper down! I repeat, the piper is down. Actually, these days, the piper is doing just fine, but there was a time when John McLean Allan left his bagpipes - an instrument he'd played since ...

And 1,800 people await the next band, whose members have planned this moment for two years. “We’re putting our necks on the chopping block,” says Mark Lundquist, before calling the first tune. It’s ...

The Shotts pipe band and Anna Meredith's electronica-pipes mixes are bringing traditional bagpipe music into a new era My life has changed. In Shotts, half-way between Glasgow and Edinburgh, I ...

When he first started work as the music teacher for the Athena-Weston School District, Jacob Gau had to give himself a crash course in the bagpipes. Now in his second year, Gau has moved onto printing ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – St. Patrick’s Day may have passed, but Schenectady resident Allyson Crowley-Duncan is making playing the bagpipes cool 365 days a year. The musician and teacher turned to ...

It may have traditionalists spluttering into their drams. But a German supermarket chain is offering Scots cut-price kilts and a set of bagpipes for less than £33. The poly viscose kilt retails at a ...

Hundreds gathered in the golden warmth of an autumn afternoon on Sunday for a multi-generational celebration of nature. Bagpipes & Bonfire, generally held on the last Sunday in September, is Lake ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — Beginning Sept. 11, visitors to Heritage Landing park in Muskegon can attend the annual Michigan Irish Musical Festival, which features over 25 artists. “We try to offer ...