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 ...
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 ...
Like enchanted Brigadoon, each year, the dewy mists part and the sun rises on the village of Maxville in Eastern Ontario, where over 24,000 people gather for two days every ...
For the Rev. Dennis Carter, pastor of Roslyn Presbyterian Church, the skirl of Scottish bagpipes isn't merely a simple enjoyment: It's a stirring experience. "It causes your heart to beat a little ...
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 ...
Like most festivals devoted to Scottish culture, the annual Colorado Scottish Festival at the Highlands Heritage Park in Highlands Ranch features caber tossing, haggis eating and plenty of bagpiping.
Bollywood beats are probably the last kind of music you'd expect to hear from a bagpipe band, but Indian flavors are just part of the mix for the Secaucus-based Swamibapa Pipe Band. Over 10 years ago, ...
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 ...