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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 ...

A few decades ago, a lot of Scottish bands were playing Irish music. It's not just that Irish bands -- the Chieftains and the Clancy Brothers, among others -- were carrying their music to eager ...

Celtic music is going metal. The flutes, bagpipes and other woodwind instruments used for more than 500 years to play the folk music of Ireland and Scotland have historically been made, as one might ...

Musicians from as near as York and as far as Australia will be participating in the Mid-Summer Scottish & Irish Music and Pennsylvania Wine Festival, being held Saturday and Sunday at the Lancaster ...

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 ...

It's been claimed that early bagpipes were actually used in modern-day Turkey back in 1000BC and the pipes did not appear in ...