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 ...

LARGO, Fla. — Bunny Pearce has been slamming the bass drum in the same band for 44 years and has no plans to stop. “They’ll have to pry the sticks from my cold, dead fingers,” she said. Her passion is ...

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 ...

Bollywood beats are probably the last kind of music you'd expect to hear from a bagpipe band, but Indian flavors are just part of the mix for the Secaucus-based Swamibapa Pipe Band. Over 10 years ago, ...

The sound of bagpipes and drums will be thundering throughout Carson City as the Wicked Tinkers return to the Levitt AMP Concert Series on Saturday. The band plays many traditional Celtic tunes but ...

Like most festivals devoted to Scottish culture, the annual Colorado Scottish Festival at the Highlands Heritage Park in Highlands Ranch features caber tossing, haggis eating and plenty of bagpiping.

From a distance, it may appear that Garrett Thompson and Jake Newcomb are playing recorders, those plastic instruments beloved by fourth-graders everywhere. These two middle-school boys have a loftier ...

A few years back, when a friend asked me to play the bagpipes in a concert marking the 15th anniversary of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I was thrilled. In my experience, most ...

The term “trad music,” short for traditional music, usually describes a type of folk music, though it can apply to other ...

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 ...