The 10th anniversary of Pipefest in Edinburgh, Scotland, this summer attracted 9,100 musicians from 30 countries and broke the world record for the largest pipe gathering in history. Imagine the sound ...
Phil Lenihan’s love for bagpipes began when the first Highland Games he attended finished. It was the 1940s and Lenihan, then a New York City high schooler, went with his father to the Scottish sports ...
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 ...
On Memorial Day, Kris Carmichael honored the fallen with his breath, playing bagpipes.Carmichael has spent the past 40 years playing his bagpipe at memorials offering a musical tribute to those who ...
RONKONKOMA, N.Y. — In the days following 9/11, Robert Honor watched the funerals on television and had an unusual reaction. Stirred by the steady, sorrowful drone of bagpipe bands paying tribute to ...
KEARNEY — While other teenagers were learning to play the guitar or drums, Alex Lowe of Kearney taught himself to play the bagpipes. Lowe, 16, is a junior at Kearney Catholic High School and the son ...
Julie Brinklow, a prominent bagpiper from Scotland, dismissed “bigger muscle” in her right breast as a side effect of playing the bagpipes When her partner insisted she go to the doctor, she was told ...