Stalwarts leading off the St. Patrick's Day Parade, seen everywhere around Chicago, a lot of effort — and history — is behind those skirling pipes.

A set of bagpipes owned by a French king believed to be the oldest set in the world has been put on display ahead of World Bagpipe Day on March 10. The pipes, displayed at Morpeth Chantry in ...

Are they Irish? Are they Scottish? Clad in red, white and blue tartan kilts and filling the air with sacred tunes from their ...

Rob Gándara, plays for his son, Finisterre. Gándara is an engineer who designs and makes a modern version of Uilleann pipes. Irish bagpipes, or Uilleann pipes (rhymes with chillin'), are a traditional ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “Yeah, I guess it’s a verb,” says JD Ingraham, the Senior Pipe Major of the Charleston Pipe Band.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Each year, thousands of people enjoy the tunes played by the bagpipers marching through downtown Cleveland for St. Patrick's Day. The history of the bagpipe can be traced back to ...

President Joe Biden sparked a social media debate last week when he claimed that a performance by a bagpiper at the White House made "an Irishman feel special". Biden posted a video of a special St.

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 ...

Today, hundreds hit the streets of Gloucester City to celebrate Irish culture. The Gloucester City Irish Society Pipes and ...

Despite record snowfall the day before, the streets of downtown Spokane bustled with bagpipes, Irish dancers and scores of citizens adorned in green for this year’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade on ...

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, ...