SALADO — Billed as “Where the heather meets the bluebonnets,” the 53rd Scottish Gathering and Highland Games filled the air with the sounds of drums and bagpipes Saturday at the Civic Center. Boasting ...
DUNEDIN, Fla. — Sure, there are restaurants and shops in downtown Dunedin, but seeing musicians playing bagpipes and drums in a local park is not an unusual sight either. That’s because Dunedin ...
The pipes, the pipes are calling from a parking lot. But soon they’ll be calling all the way from Glasgow, Scotland, where 20 pipers and 10 drummers from the Pikes Peak Highlanders Pipes and Drums ...
BROKEN ARROW — Vibrant kilts, bagpipe tunes and Scottish feats of strength were on display this weekend at Scotfest 2018. About 25,000 people were expected to attend the three-day festival that began ...
Many years ago, during an otherwise routine day in the third grade, David Spurlock’s class was visited by a bagpipe band. It was a life-changing experience for Spurlock. “I was completely awed by them ...
Cy Deitz had left one major Pennsylvania historical site — his hometown of Gettysburg — to experience some of his Scottish culture and heritage in the Highland Games, at another historical area, that ...
After finding out their ancestry includes a wee bit of Scottish, Topekan Jim Williamson and his 10-year-old son, Jack Williamson, began taking lessons together in 2007 to learn how to play the ...
Think of them, as one enthusiast suggests, as the “agony bags” or, as another said, “an acquired taste.” Some equate them to the sound of cats in great distress, although there also seems to be a bit ...
Even though North Little Rock Fire Department Capt. Alan Tetkoskie doesn't have any Irish or Scottish ancestry, he's says he's always felt there was something special about the wail of bagpipes. Mayor ...
Kevin Konetzka, left, and Mike Kutsko, right, with Southern Indiana Pipes and Drums, play the bagpipes during a memorial service to honor fallen police officers across the United States at Public ...