There is no other music quite like the sound of bagpipes, and for one group of bagpipers in Cape Girardeau, performing with them is as much a chance to socialize as it is to honor tradition. Terry ...

Sheila Liming grew up in Seattle playing "normal" instruments, including the piano and flute, she said, until her grandmother persuaded her to take up the bagpipes. Her grandmother, whose father had ...

When a Marine veteran with terminal cancer asked his daughter for a specific type of music to be played at his funeral, she made sure he'd get it — while he was still alive. Richard Marsh had been ...

When his four friends and colleagues died in the 1995 Pang warehouse fire, Seattle Fire Department medic Les Davis recalls how grateful he was that the Vancouver Police Department sent bagpipers for ...

OKEMOS — Maureen Carroll didn't realize just how many people in mid-Michigan knew her father until last week. Terry Carroll, a resident of Okemos for more than 40 years known for the Highland bagpipes ...

"It's the most aggravating, frustrating, embarrassing, annoying, lovable instrument I've ever played," — Tyler Lembcke, member of the Chattanooga Pipe Band, about the bagpipes. When the weather's nice ...

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 ...