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 ...
Katie Robertson, who gained a following on social media as The Wheeled Piper, has navigated several different chronic ...
SEQUIM — Heidi Slack said there is a beauty and connection that comes from knowing the history of the bagpipes and the tunes. “Each piece of music being played usually has an old, and often tragic, ...
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 ...
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 ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Anderson Bailey plays one of the most difficult instruments in the world to master. And he’s only 11. The Windward Oahu youngster is hooked on bagpipes. “I like how they ...
He's the only one of his kind wielding a 5-pound bagpipe with cornrows in his hair. You may have seen him at memorials, like for the late longtime Sen. Kirk Schuring, on television performing at the ...