LARGO, Fla. — Bunny Pearce has been slamming the bass drum in the same band for 44 years and has no plans to stop. “They’ll have to pry the sticks from my cold, dead fingers,” she said. Her passion is ...

SMITHVILLE, New Jersey (WPVI) -- A celebration of Irish culture took place in New Jersey today at the Smithville Irish Festival! "You don't have to be Irish to come and celebrate, it's a celebration ...

We've got a piper down! I repeat, the piper is down. Actually, these days, the piper is doing just fine, but there was a time when John McLean Allan left his bagpipes - an instrument he'd played since ...

And 1,800 people await the next band, whose members have planned this moment for two years. “We’re putting our necks on the chopping block,” says Mark Lundquist, before calling the first tune. It’s ...

Back in the late 70s, while most high schoolers were flaunting disco suits and bell-bottom pants, Charlie Street was a kilt-wearing drum major in the Dunedin High School marching band, the Scottish ...

The Grand Rapids & District Pipe Band will be hosting its annual fall Ceilidh Saturday, Nov. 20 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 5830 Clyde Park Ave. SW. A Ceilidh is a traditional Gaelic social ...

Alistair Campsie hears the way that pipers play tunes as they tred the boards at Highland Gatherings, he winces. Traditional bagpipe music has been bastardised, principally through the actions of a ...

Bollywood beats are probably the last kind of music you'd expect to hear from a bagpipe band, but Indian flavors are just part of the mix for the Secaucus-based Swamibapa Pipe Band. Over 10 years ago, ...

From a distance, it may appear that Garrett Thompson and Jake Newcomb are playing recorders, those plastic instruments beloved by fourth-graders everywhere. These two middle-school boys have a loftier ...