Coreyanne Armstrong always has bagpipes or a child close by — usually both. A single mother of eight children ages 5 to 19, Armstrong is a full-time professional bagpiper often performing four times a ...
STORY: It's the distinctive sound of Scottish music being played thousands of miles from the UK. This is Nigeria's capital Abuja. Marching through its streets: the Scottish Power Pipe Band. It was ...
Phil Lenihan’s love for bagpipes began when the first Highland Games he attended finished. It was the 1940s and Lenihan, then a New York City high schooler, went with his father to the Scottish sports ...
It’s music to his ears. King Charles III has honored his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, by hiring her official piper, Paul Burns. Since she ascended the throne back in 1952, the queen had a personal ...
MANKATO — For Noah Schmid, learning how to play bagpipes was motivated by a desire to fill some time. “I was bored during COVID and I wanted to play an instrument,” he said. “I didn’t want to start ...
(Reuters) - Every evening, as the sun is setting over the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, the mournful notes of a bagpipe playing "Amazing Grace" ring out across the beach. Andrew McGregor, ...
ATLANTA — A man known for playing his bagpipes at events around Atlanta died while scuba-diving. If that’s not tragic enough, when his family went to his home to settle his affairs, they found ...