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 ...

Every night at sundown, 17-year-old Ryan Lewis steps outside his Monument home and emits melancholy notes from his Great Highland bagpipe. The music drifts for a mile or so across the foothills. Karen ...

SEQUIM — Heidi Slack said there is a beauty and connection that comes from knowing the history of the bagpipes and the tunes. “Each piece of music being played usually has an old, and often tragic, ...

Wannabe bagpipers get subtle reminders of that in Bill McKiddy’s Great Highland bagpipe and Scottish drumming course at Wabash Valley College in Mount Carmel, Ill. Students can complete the course in ...

Michael Akard’s day job is teaching English at Modesto Junior College to immigrants from various lands. In his leisure time, he celebrates his own Scottish heritage by playing the bagpipes. That ...