IT’S news likely to get Scots hot under the kilt as a historian claims that bagpipes — one of the nation’s national symbols — ...

BAGPIPE chiefs last night launched a proud defence of the instrument in the face of claims they’re not truly Scottish. A ...

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

The swirl of Scotland the Brave - and a couple of bagpiped Christmas tunes - greeted shoppers on a crisp Saturday morning in ...

Bagpipes are “critically endangered” after becoming one of the bottom five bought instruments, experts warn. The famous Scottish pipes joined kazoo, bassoon, tenor horn, oboe and flugelhorn as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Competing at World Pipe Band Championships helped Eve Muirhead become known as the Ice Queen on her way to Olympic, world and European gold medals in curling, but the Scot is warming to her new role ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...