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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s something intrinsically loveable about the Scottish. Free of any modern political prominence, the culture is largely focused on symbolic pride. Be it kilts, strongman competitions, bagpipes or ...

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.

We've got a piper down! I repeat, the piper is down. Actually, these days, the piper is doing just fine, but there was a time when John McLean Allan left his bagpipes - an instrument he'd played since ...

And 1,800 people await the next band, whose members have planned this moment for two years. “We’re putting our necks on the chopping block,” says Mark Lundquist, before calling the first tune. It’s ...

The Grand Rapids & District Pipe Band will be hosting its annual fall Ceilidh Saturday, Nov. 20 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 5830 Clyde Park Ave. SW. A Ceilidh is a traditional Gaelic social ...

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, ...

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 ...