NORFOLK — On a cold Thursday night, 10 bagpipers of the Siren City Pipe Band sat in folding chairs around card tables on the third floor of the First Lutheran Church. Everyone held thin practice pipes ...

Deb Siebert figures she must be passionate, crazy or both. Siebert and her husband, Paul, who live in Manito, near Peoria, travel 170 miles one-way weekly to practice with the Midlothian Scottish Pipe ...

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 ...

There's something about a warm summer evening that just makes a guy want to slip into his kilt, listen to a little bagpipe music and practice tossing haggis around a field. That wasn't quite the ...

McPHERSON – Between the rainy weather Saturday and performances by the City of McPherson Pipe Band, the newly renamed McPherson Festival of Cultures kept a distinctly Scottish atmosphere. The band ...

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 ...

SALADO — Billed as “Where the heather meets the bluebonnets,” the 53rd Scottish Gathering and Highland Games filled the air with the sounds of drums and bagpipes Saturday at the Civic Center. Boasting ...

A correction was made on Jan. 30, 2024: Due to incorrect information provided to The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, an earlier version of this article misstated that a Jan. 27 Burns Supper was ...