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 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 ...
Away from the military music and jaunty reels of Burns Night, pibroch explores the hypnotic drone of the bagpipes – a style so powerful it can induce a trance state According to seasoned bagpiper John ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Dogs barking, birds chirping, but bagpipes? Not the typical sound one expects to hear in a neighborhood. "I heard this noise and I looked to my roof to see if something was ...
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 ...
LANSING, Mich. — This week's Good Neighbors are a group of musicians who love a unique instrument and the music it produces. The Glen Erin Pipe Band is rich with pageantry and the love of all things ...
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 ...
The bagpipes, an ancient musical instrument rich in tradition and cultural heritage, are currently facing a significant crisis. The number of bagpipe players worldwide is in decline, with Nigeria ...
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 ...
Follow the sound of the bagpipes and you’ll find Richard Cook. Cook, 55, is an artist at Disneyland, a guy who makes a living drawing portraits and caricatures of tourists. But he’s also a musician, a ...
The name Donald Judd evokes minimalism and Marfa, but those closest to the artist might also hear bellowing bagpipes—his favorite form of music. Leo Villareal remembers house parties Judd hosted ...
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 ...