To mark her longest reign, the pipers of the Royal Highland Fusiliers play what they call a "historic tune" publicly for the first time Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more ...

PORTLAND -The long, low drone of bagpipes has enchanted many people for centuries. “There’s always something moving about the bagpipes,” Thomas O’Mara said. Just a few years ago, he watched from a ...

BLOOMINGTON — Musical shamrocks cast last year afore a Glengarry bonnet in Uptown Normal have since taken root and flourished into my revitalized bagpipe journey. Eureka’s Celtic Cross Pipes & Drums, ...

Robert Hackney plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and his favorite of all, the Great Scottish bagpipes. He picked up bagpipes 34 years ago because of an interest in folk music. “I fell in love,” Hackney ...

Follow the sound of the bagpipes and you’ll find Richard Cook. Cook, 55, is an artist at Disneyland, a guy who makes a living drawing portraits and caricatures of tourists. But he’s also a musician, a ...

Before bagpipe rehearsal came the earplugs. Mike Breidenbach, director of piping at Macalester College, proffered a pair with a grin before pipe band practice Wednesday night. Gather enough bagpipes ...