For anyone unfamiliar with Scottish culture, a crash course was available in Davison this weekend. The Flint Scottish Pipe Band celebrated its 95th anniversary with a 'Ceilidh' - a Scottish party with ...

LANDER — A few years ago, 11-year-old Cormac Susanka found himself seeking to learn “a weird instrument.” Tottering between bagpipes and accordion, he chose the former – partly because several of his ...

A correction was made on Jan. 30, 2024: Due to incorrect information provided to The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, an earlier version of this article misstated that a Jan. 27 Burns Supper was ...

Playing bagpipes isn’t for the weak. Imagine toting a newborn in a parade on a blazing summer day dressed in woolen clothing, blowing into a pipe the whole time. This hard-to-fathom scenario is ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) -- Bob Gough, director of sales at Magnuson Industries Inc., is better known in Rockford for his hobby than his work. As pipe major of the City of Rockford Pipe Band, he spends ...

The Inverary and District Pipe Band have been declared World Pipe Band champions for the second year in a row. The band, from Argyll and Bute, won the World Pipe Band Championships after two days of ...

On a July afternoon, an old aircraft hangar in Austin rings with the regal drone of the bagpipes and the martial crack of snare drums. But there's not a kilt in sight. In the shade of the curved roof, ...

Robert Burns, Rabbie Burns, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and national poet of Scotland is 260 years old. Friday, Jan. 25, is Burns' birthday and observed by Scots and Burns admirers with ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X While the rest of Charleston was left to simmer in its hotter-than-a-pepper-sprout August temps, ...

Now in its twentieth year, this popular event was originally held in Blairsville GA, where it was known as the Blairsville Scottish Festival and Highland Games. Every year hundreds of bagpipers, ...