A concert of “pibroch,” rarely-heard 17th-century Gaelic art music for Highland bagpipes, will be performed along with 21st-century bagpipe-inspired compositions in Dwight Chapel on Yale University’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Christmas concerts are God’s gift to early music groups such as Piffaro (Philadelphia’s Renaissance wind band). Audience love taking refuge in holiday exuberance from what we imagine as a better, ...
From the outside of the solid brick building, First Presbyterian Church in downtown Baton Rouge seemed quiet Saturday morning. But once past the doors, music from bagpipes and drums drifted from ...
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - An 11-year-old in Hawaii has taken to playing one of the most difficult instruments in the world to master. Anderson Bailey is only 11, and he’s hooked on bagpipes. He said ...
On Memorial Day, Kris Carmichael honored the fallen with his breath, playing bagpipes.Carmichael has spent the past 40 years playing his bagpipe at memorials offering a musical tribute to those who ...
The cross streets of Market and Commerce are tremulous with the rush of visitors and San Antonio natives. They hustle from trolley to street corner, some plunging below onto the slices of sidewalk ...
SMITHVILLE, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A celebration of Irish culture took place in New Jersey today at the Smithville Irish Festival! "You don't have to be Irish to come and celebrate, it's a celebration ...
A WORLDWIDE demand for bagpipes is helping the expansion of a Liversedge business which has doubled its warehouse size and created two more jobs. Fusion, launched in 2008, was formed by four women to ...