You see them on the streets, and certainly hear them when their sirens are blaring, but there's something you probably have never heard coming from the New Orleans Fire Department -- until now. The ...

Amarillo native John Brewer is what you’d call the godfather of ceremonial bagpipe tradition in West Texas. An accomplished musician and teacher with a heart for American patriotism, Brewer began ...

CHICAGO — Recognizable by just a few short notes, the Bagpipes and Drums of the Emerald Society have marched in parades and honored fallen police officers for decades. Formed in 1982 after two Chicago ...

Throughout their history, bagpipes have been linked by definition with the fighting Scots — first the Highlanders who invented them, then the Scottish regiments of the United Kingdom. That military ...

Stop by an Irish pub today, and if you’re lucky you’ll hear the evocative wail of a Great Highland Bagpipe. It’s an instrument with ancient roots in Scotland, not Ireland. Today, the men playing those ...

From the outside of the solid brick building, First Presbyterian Church in downtown Baton Rouge seemed quiet Saturday morning. But once past the doors, music from bagpipes and drums drifted from ...

If John Errico ’08 and John Graham ’08 have their way, the melody of bagpipes may soon overtake sirens among the most frequently heard sounds in New Haven. The two sophomores launched Bulldog Pipes ...

Celtic Pipes and Drums of Hawaii members perform at the Spirit of ’45 Wreath Laying Ceremony at Punchbowl in August 2015. Learning to play a bagpipe, like learning any musical instrument, takes time ...

101 Entry of the Band: Drumming Fanfare- Burns on the March / Scots Guards (Musical group). Bagpipe,Drum 203 South Rampart Street Parade / Scots Guards (Musical group). Bagpipe,Drum 203 Yesterday / ...

Think of them, as one enthusiast suggests, as the “agony bags” or, as another said, “an acquired taste.” Some equate them to the sound of cats in great distress, although there also seems to be a bit ...

The pipes, the pipes are calling from a parking lot. But soon they’ll be calling all the way from Glasgow, Scotland, where 20 pipers and 10 drummers from the Pikes Peak Highlanders Pipes and Drums ...

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