October 29, 2020

North-east pipe band making history despite lockdown with first virtual solo competition and launch ...

• Pipebands

Turriff and District Pipe Band should have just concluded its first competition season in grade 3a, following its major championship wins last year.

October 8, 2020

Richmond School community hosts final farewell to Dave Clark

• Bagpipes

The sound of bagpipes welcomed popular deputy headteacher Dave Clark into Richmond School car park for a final time. 

October 1, 2020

The Final Countdown

Bagpiper Archy J (who goes by “The Snake Charmer”) partnered with 8 other artists for this rockin’ version of the awesome 80s tune “The Final Countdown” by Europe.

September 10, 2020

Bagpipes played Amazing Grace during the graveside service. As the Caledonia Lodge Bagpipe ...

• Bagpipes

Bagpipes played Amazing Grace during the graveside service. As the Caledonia Lodge Bagpipe Players of Salina, Kansas, traveled to honor the Baxter Springs sailor. While playing they walked away in the distance to the north. Their playing was drown out by the military flyover. It was a perfectly timed out and meaningful moment. Caledonia Lodge is a Scottish Rite Masonic Lodge with a Celtic flare. Caledonia #459, part of District 03C, is the only Lodge in Kansas with a Lodge Piper. BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. — A World War II sailor who was killed during the Pearl Harbor attack will be finally be laid to rest in his hometown due to DNA matching.

September 10, 2020

Brìghde Chaimbeul's Scottish small pipes and the late philosopher and musician Roger Scruton

• Bagpipes

It’s not every other day that an album of traditional bagpipe tunes makes a “best album” list. Brìghde Chaimbeul’s done it with her first album. She’s the 21-year old musician from Skye who’s changing the audience and sound of pipes music. …

September 10, 2020

Famous pipers: PM John MacLean

• Pipers

My father, John MacLean, was born in the solitary house on the small tidal island of Kirkibost, North Uist, where his father, Angus, was the herdsman.

September 10, 2020

How Ireland's tradition of blind musicians led to a new vision for orchestral music

• Uilleann

Within the Irish ‘uilleann’ piping tradition, there existed two particularly famous blind musicians, both from County Clare. The fame of Pádraig O’Briain …

September 10, 2020

Irish Jig on Fiddle & Uilleann Pipes - Cherish the Ladies - Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson

• Uilleann

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September 10, 2020

Patrick O'Hare Uilleann Pipes - Reed making

• Uilleann

Hello everyone Welcome to my Facebook pages where I will post pictures of the Uilleann Pipes that I manufacture.

April 20, 2020

Patsy Touhey

• Uilleann

Pat Touhey was the most successful of the vaudeville pipers. He was in show business for at least 36 years and thought of himself as a comedian and actor. Touhey was also a virtuoso on the Irish pipes and well-regarded as a piper in his day …