The Highland bagpipe is an integral part of Scottish culture and history, famous for its distinctive, powerful sound that ...

Thompson has played bagpipes since he was 13 in 1963, when he learned from an Scottish octogenarian coal miner who served ...

As bagpipes ring out across the valley this St. Patrick’s Day, some will pause and admire the haunting sound while others ...

Edition host Andrew Garcia and KERA producer Therese Powell wanted to know more about Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes, so ...

The bagpipes, most commonly seen in their Great Highland form from Scotland, are a loud and imposing musical instrument. Known for being difficult to practice quietly, they’re not the ideal ...

And keep in mind that the bagpipes are really more of a universal instrument they're, even though they're called the Great Highland Bagpipes, they are played all over the world. Many countries are ...

Slack, Erik Evans and Tom McCurdy comprise the Parking Lot Pipers — a modern local trio keeping up an at least 400-year tradition of the Great Highland Bagpipes. “The tradition is very rich, ...

The opening track off the band’s sophomore release, T.N.T., features a blaring, in-your-face bagpipes feature played by the band’s original vocalist, Bon Scott. The great Highland bagpipe is a ...

The popular Great Highland Bagpipe is used the world over to lift the spirits with tattoos and massed pipe bands and to remember and mourn the dead at funerals and memorials. It inspires soldiers ...

John Patrick Egelhof, presenting An Introduction to the Great Highland Bagpipe, will be the guest speaker at the Headwaters ...