The piercing whine of the bagpipes is unmistakable. In the days of the Scottish clans, the pipes were used in battle, sort of the Scotsman's version of "shock and awe." The noise rattled the enemy and ...

RAVE to the kid playing bagpipes outside Lincoln High School as I walked past at lunchtime recently. The news has been grim lately, and this was a delightfully uplifting moment. He’s quite good! RANT ...

Bagpipes are a large part of the NH Highland Games. The 2025 Highland Games are striving to break the Guinness world record for most number of bagpipers at a time: 333. Courtesy NH SCOT Sign up for ...

He's the only one of his kind wielding a 5-pound bagpipe with cornrows in his hair. You may have seen him at memorials, like for the late longtime Sen. Kirk Schuring, on television performing at the ...

The 10th anniversary of Pipefest in Edinburgh, Scotland, this summer attracted 9,100 musicians from 30 countries and broke the world record for the largest pipe gathering in history. Imagine the sound ...

ANDOVER, N.Y. (WIVB) — Stephen Walker has been playing the bagpipes ever since he was 12 years old, and he’s hoping for some help finding mementos from his musical past. “I was always around this ...

KEARNEY — While other teenagers were learning to play the guitar or drums, Alex Lowe of Kearney taught himself to play the bagpipes. Lowe, 16, is a junior at Kearney Catholic High School and the son ...

Julie Brinklow, a prominent bagpiper from Scotland, dismissed “bigger muscle” in her right breast as a side effect of playing the bagpipes When her partner insisted she go to the doctor, she was told ...