Sheila Liming grew up in Seattle playing "normal" instruments, including the piano and flute, she said, until her grandmother persuaded her to take up the bagpipes. Her grandmother, whose father had ...

SEQUIM — Heidi Slack said there is a beauty and connection that comes from knowing the history of the bagpipes and the tunes. “Each piece of music being played usually has an old, and often tragic, ...

LARGO, Fla. — Bunny Pearce has been slamming the bass drum in the same band for 44 years and has no plans to stop. “They’ll have to pry the sticks from my cold, dead fingers,” she said. Her passion is ...

Like most festivals devoted to Scottish culture, the annual Colorado Scottish Festival at the Highlands Heritage Park in Highlands Ranch features caber tossing, haggis eating and plenty of bagpiping.

Corvallis - You can hear the bagpipe a block away. The bagpipe is like that. To some, it's the music of the gods, to others, the sound of two cats of different sizes sewn inside a burlap sack and ...

The Red Hot Chili Pipers isn't your everyday garden-variety rock group. Most of us know Bagpipe music from The Gordon Pipers' appearances at the 500, firefighter parades, and the occasional AC/DC song ...

This is not just a bunch of hot air. Here are 16 songs that prove bagpipes have a place in our hearts beyond St. Patrick’s Day parades. 2. Rilo Kiley, “A Better Son/Daughter” On the surface, much of ...

When people are out reveling on St. Patrick’s Day, listening to traditional Celtic music usually doesn’t top their list of party essentials. However, at a bar in Hollywood on one such day, Eric ...

When Duncan Menzies was young (a Scot might say wee) he decided he wanted to learn to play the bagpipes. He was successful — after years of incredibly trying practice. Then, in his twenties, he ...