There is no other music quite like the sound of bagpipes, and for one group of bagpipers in Cape Girardeau, performing with them is as much a chance to socialize as it is to honor tradition. Terry ...
If you've read me for a while, you know I like music and robots. So when I discovered via The Scotsman that researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have built a robot bagpiper, I wanted to ...
Follow the sound of the bagpipes and you’ll find Richard Cook. Cook, 55, is an artist at Disneyland, a guy who makes a living drawing portraits and caricatures of tourists. But he’s also a musician, a ...
The musician, known as Piper to the Sovereign, has the honour of acting as a human alarm clock for Her Majesty, blasting tunes in earshot of the Queen’s bedroom every weekday. Piper to the Sovereign ...
In one corner of the workshop, Kenny Macleod was inspecting intricately-carved drones for Highland bagpipes. Across the room, Stuart McCallum was discussing the complexities of programming a computer- ...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Trident Medical Center celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day with some classic Irish tunes Wednesday morning. Professional bagpipe player, Mike Hostler, began playing in the ...
In German, it’s called a dudelsack or a sackpfeife, in French a musette. The Italians know it as a piva, while in Spain it’s referred to as a gaita. But to Scotsmen like Iain McLeod of Edinburgh, it’s ...
SNOOP Dogg was serenaded by a bagpipe rendition of one of his iconic songs as he touched down in Glasgow before his gig. The US rapper, 51, is set to play at the OVO Hyrdo tonight. The show was ...
It s not often we hear the coupling of piano accordion and pipes on an album from Vermont musicians. These two instruments, however, have a history of making lovely music in Scotland and in parts of ...