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 ...

SEQUIM — Heidi Slack said there is a beauty and connection that comes from knowing the history of the bagpipes and the tunes. “Each piece of music being played usually has an old, and often tragic, ...

Brìghde Chaimbeul is an experimental composer who grew up immersed in music, studying piano and fiddle before picking up the bagpipes at age seven.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VERMILION, Ohio (WJW)– Bagpipe music brought ...

a fairly straightforward question. 90% of the time you hear bagpipes, they're playing amazing grace at a funeral. 9% of the time, they are playing a second song, which i want to know the name of, ...

Coreyanne Armstrong always has bagpipes or a child close by — usually both. A single mother of eight children ages 5 to 19, Armstrong is a full-time professional bagpiper often performing four times a ...

OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) - The first time Dakota Marti of Ottawa remembers actually thinking about the music of bagpipes came at age 10 with a viewing of the movie "Backdraft," which was filmed throughout ...

A music expert has warned bagpipes are becoming “critically endangered” - slumping into the bottom five least purchased instruments last year. The traditional Scottish instrument is not being taken up ...