A music student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow is helping to show that the bagpipes are more than "just a traditional instrument". Anna Smart, 24, who is originally from Fife ...

In its six-decade quest to return to its New York roots, the classic musical “Funny Girl” got used to the world raining on its parade. After an array of false starts and high-profile planned ...

The inaugural’s pageantry was interpreted in sharply different ways across the media spectrum. Podcasters weighed in, too. By Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin Nobody summed up the funereal ...

The bagpipes, most commonly seen in their Great Highland form from Scotland, are a loud and imposing musical instrument. Known for being difficult to practice quietly, they’re not the ideal ...

1. The Scotsman newspaper warns that bagpipes face an ‘existential threat’. Their poor sales last year found them in the bottom three worst-selling instruments in the UK, along with the kazoo ...

They were playing a certain instrument [the bagpipes].” “I was instantly captivated by the melancholy sound. And then I thought, ‘I'm going to quit cooking and learn to play the bagpipes’.” ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.

Ratification is in the bag from both of the big parties, and now the real fun begins: playing the parlour game of who gets what when the Cabinet is decided. New taoiseach Micheál Martin, once ...

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There are whisky cocktails to wash it down with, which may also be taken as fortification for the bagpipe accompaniment from The Pipes and Drums of London Scottish Regiment, a pipe band formed in ...

In most cases, this tune is Burns’, ‘A Man’s A Man For A’ That’, played on the bagpipes. Watch a procession of the haggis, accompanied by Burns’ tune below. In the procession, the chef (whoever made ...

Don Scoby, Whidbey Islander, post commander of the Scottish American Military Society and avid bagpiper, recently published a book of history and sheet music for the highland bagpipe. Unlike his ...