Curling superstar Eve Muirhead says competing at World Pipe Band Championships helped her become known as the Ice Queen on her way to Olympic, world and European gold medals in curling.

From salt made by hand on a Philippine island, to ceremonial dances in Kenya and ancient textile traditions in Belarus, the ...

Jim Smith started playing the bagpipes when he was 12 Jim Smith has played the bagpipes for more than 60 years but when he was told he would have to have all his teeth removed he thought his lifelong ...

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 ...

Forget the classic alarm clock noise: Queen Elizabeth's day begins with the sound of live bagpipes every morning. A musician, titled Piper to the Sovereign, plays the bagpipes at 9 o'clock a.m. for 15 ...

They are louder than the noise of a chainsaw. More piercing than than a jet plane taking off. They can cause you permanent ear damage and even ruin your marriage. They are Scotland's national musical ...

The musical instrument and uniform, devised as instruments of war centuries ago, are today considered the epitome of cool. Jonathan Vigliotti reports: Every spring, when Scotland thaws and roars back ...

Alasdair Campbell is proud to be playing pipes his great-grandfather carried into battle in World War One After piper Malcolm Campbell was shot and left for dead during World War One, he credited his ...

PennWest Edinboro will offer a two-day virtual beginner’s boot camp in January designed to introduce students, employees and community members to one of the campus’s most cherished traditions: ...

Christmas concerts are God’s gift to early music groups such as Piffaro (Philadelphia’s Renaissance wind band). Audience love taking refuge in holiday exuberance from what we imagine as a better, ...

There’s an old saying: “A true gentleman is a man who can play the bagpipes, but doesn’t.” In March, when Donald Trump called in to “Hannity” to tout Jeff Sessions’s replacement, he crowed, “Our new ...