Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORFOLK — On a cold Thursday night, 10 bagpipers of the Siren City Pipe Band sat in folding chairs around card tables on the third ...
There's something about a warm summer evening that just makes a guy want to slip into his kilt, listen to a little bagpipe music and practice tossing haggis around a field. That wasn't quite the ...
Nearly every child in the room raised their hand when asked if they knew what a bagpipe was, but all of them put their hands right back down when the follow-up question was whether they knew how the ...
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 ...
McPHERSON – Between the rainy weather Saturday and performances by the City of McPherson Pipe Band, the newly renamed McPherson Festival of Cultures kept a distinctly Scottish atmosphere. The band ...
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 2015 Alaska Scottish Highland Games take place on Saturday, June 27. One of the most stirring moments -- and probably the loudest -- will be when ranks of kilted pipers and drummers from around ...
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.