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, ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — The first time Jacob Starker marched onto the football field at Gatlinburg-Pittman High School with bagpipes tucked under his arm, the fans filling the bleachers decked in their ...

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 ...

There is no other music quite like the sound of bagpipes, and for one group of bagpipers in Cape Girardeau, performing with them is as much a chance to socialize as it is to honor tradition. Terry ...

Are they Irish? Are they Scottish? Clad in red, white and blue tartan kilts and filling the air with sacred tunes from their ...

Thousands of years of bagpipe history have spawned countless fantastical tales, including Scottish faeries infusing highland players and their instruments with magic; warriors wielding the haunting, ...

Bulgaria’s bagpipe tradition has received one of the highest international honors after being officially inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The ...

You've probably seen Knoxville Pipes and Drums perform around town. But did you know the nonprofit offers free music lessons?

PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland firefighters with IAFF Local 43 are teaming up to form a Scottish bagpipe and drum band. Since January, they've been practicing once a week at their union hall in Southeast ...

For reasons involving a class trip and a large, passive-aggressive pipe band who expressed their displeasure about sharing space with a couple dozen rowdy students by staging sunrise practice sessions ...

SILVIS, Ill. — As the roar of the crowd dies down and a new John Deere Classic champion is crowned, it’s not the sound of cheers or cameras that kicks off the trophy ceremony — it’s the unmistakable ...