The Claddagh Mhor Pipe Band meets weekly and already has a few performances scheduled. PORTLAND -The long, low drone of bagpipes has enchanted many people for centuries. “There’s always something ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Each year, thousands of people enjoy the tunes played by the bagpipers marching through downtown Cleveland for St. Patrick's Day. The history of the bagpipe can be traced back to ...

A research project aims to uncover long-forgotten music composed by pipers in the killing fields of the First World War. Several of today's best known bagpipe tunes, such as Battle of the Somme and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ryan Randall's marathon bagpipe sets made him something of an icon downtown. He took a break from his show at Public Garden to tell the Globe why he plays. (Olivia Yarvis/Globe Staff) You always hear ...

Springfield resident Tom Ogilvy, the pipe major of the local St. Andrew Society of Central Illinois band, has a simple description of what it is like to play the bagpipes. “It's like rubbing your ...

Bagpipes have been around since at least the first century, with the Highland bagpipes of Scotland perhaps the most familiar in the Western world today. It's flourishing, if the Masters of Scottish ...

A 24-hour McDonald's in Sacramento has been playing bagpipe music outside to drive the homeless away, and the neighbors aren't loving it. Arnold Phillips, who lives across the street from the ...

PITTSBURGH—Ally Crowley-Duncan strutted around the stage at the Pittsburgh Irish Festival like a rock star. But forget the Stratocaster; she was wailing away on red set of MacLellan bagpipes. The ...