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 ...

SALISBURY — While they may not play “Californication,” “Under the Bridge” and other Red Hot Chili Peppers hits, the similarly named Scottish rock bagpipe band Red Hot Chili Pipers will be putting ...

Vivien Williams received the Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award (BARS) in 2012. She is affiliated with Edinburgh University’s Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and with the ...

The sound of bagpipes is moving through Redding, but for The Jefferson Pipe Band, a nonprofit, keeping that tradition alive comes with the challenge of constant ...

No, it’s not a joke. This really is a list of the Top 10 Rock 'n' Roll Bagpipe Songs. You might be surprised to learn that more than a few stars – including some of Scottish and Irish descent – have ...

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 ...

Happy Friday, everyone! As we get ready for the weekend, it's time to indulge in a bit of silliness. This week, that silliness means a cover of Born of Osiris' "Machine" performed on both the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A local burger grill made “Irish nachos” famous. But fried potatoes won’t be at center stage Saturday in downtown Arlington when J ...

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 ...

When he first started work as the music teacher for the Athena-Weston School District, Jacob Gau had to give himself a crash course in the bagpipes. Now in his second year, Gau has moved onto printing ...