SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — “Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.” Listeners can hear them in Squeeze the Bag!, a concert associated with Shepherdstown’s Upper Potomac Piper’s Weekend, from 8 to 10 ...
The sound of bagpipes filled the air this weekend at the 35th annual Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival and Scottish Highland Games.The iconic Scottish instrument was only one feature of the two-day ...
Bellowing an impassioned sound, the bagpipes often evoke an emotional response from listeners, which is why this instrument has historically been played at both celebrations as well as solemn ...
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 ...
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 ...
Umer Farooq's grandfather and father made bagpipes. Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands of bagpipes ...
Before bagpipe rehearsal came the earplugs. Mike Breidenbach, director of piping at Macalester College, proffered a pair with a grin before pipe band practice Wednesday night. Gather enough bagpipes ...