You've probably seen Pipes and Drums perform around town. But did you know the nonprofit offers free music lessons?

A few years back, when a friend asked me to play the bagpipes in a concert marking the 15th anniversary of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I was thrilled. In my experience, most ...

Scotland is often associated with the famous Highland bagpipes - an integral part of Scottish culture. However, a history writer has recently highlighted that the instrument is not truly Scottish and ...

Vivien Williams received the Stephen Copley Postgraduate Research Award (BARS) in 2012. She is affiliated with Edinburgh University’s Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and with the ...

Snoop Dogg arrived in Scotland on Thursday to begin the European leg of his I Wanna Thank Me arena tour. The Long Beach rapper was welcomed to Scotland by a bagpiper who played Snoop his 1999 ...

Thousands of years of bagpipe history have spawned countless fantastical tales, including Scottish faeries infusing highland players and their instruments with magic; warriors wielding the haunting, ...

WELLINGTON, New ZealandWELLINGTON, New Zealand — The music has stirred Scottish hearts for centuries. Now the skirl of bagpipes may not be heard in stadiums at the Rugby World Cup, and the Scots are ...

The boffin reckons bagpipes did not arrive in Scotland until the late 14th century IT’S news likely to get Scots hot under the kilt as a historian claims that bagpipes — one of the nation’s national ...