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 ...

Griffin Hall is the pipe sergeant for Kansas City St. Andrew Pipes and Drums, a band that’s been around for six decades. He'll step onto the global stage this month, when he competes in the World Pipe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: It's the distinctive sound of Scottish music being played thousands of miles from the UK. This is Nigeria's capital Abuja.

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 ...

The White Stripes did it. Eminem and Depeche Mode did it. All of these artists and many more – from AC/DC to Belle and Sebastian – decided, at some critical juncture, that what their record needed was ...

LaPorte Common Council expected to vote on second Microsoft data center land annexation A big vote is expected Monday night in LaPorte.The Common Council will decide whether to annex land to allow ...