NORFOLK — On a cold Thursday night, 10 bagpipers of the Siren City Pipe Band sat in folding chairs around card tables on the third floor of the First Lutheran Church. Everyone held thin practice pipes ...
The pipes, the pipes are calling from a parking lot. But soon they’ll be calling all the way from Glasgow, Scotland, where 20 pipers and 10 drummers from the Pikes Peak Highlanders Pipes and Drums ...
The sound of a snare drum rang through the air Saturday afternoon as a parade celebrating Scottish heritage began down Duke of Gloucester Street. What followed was bagpipes and more, as the Saint ...
After finding out their ancestry includes a wee bit of Scottish, Topekan Jim Williamson and his 10-year-old son, Jack Williamson, began taking lessons together in 2007 to learn how to play the ...
LANDER — A few years ago, 11-year-old Cormac Susanka found himself seeking to learn “a weird instrument.” Tottering between bagpipes and accordion, he chose the former – partly because several of his ...
SIALKOT, Pakistan -- The British Raj is history and Pakistan is half way round the world from Scotland, but in the bazaars and alleys of Sialkot the pulse of the Highlands beats -- or rather drones -- ...
A correction was made on Jan. 30, 2024: Due to incorrect information provided to The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, an earlier version of this article misstated that a Jan. 27 Burns Supper was ...