The 10th annual Radford Highlanders Festival is today and Saturday, so what better time to break out our favorite bagpipe jokes? What's the difference between a bagpipe and an onion? No one cries when ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Each year, thousands of people enjoy the tunes played by the bagpipers marching through downtown Cleveland for St. Patrick's Day. The history of the bagpipe can be traced back to ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Trident Medical Center celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day with some classic Irish tunes Wednesday morning. Professional bagpipe player, Mike Hostler, began playing in the ...

The musician, known as Piper to the Sovereign, has the honour of acting as a human alarm clock for Her Majesty, blasting tunes in earshot of the Queen’s bedroom every weekday. Piper to the Sovereign ...

Ally Crowley-Duncan played for a while on the heavy-metal-free competitive bagpipe circuit. Part of male-dominated bands, she ...

Dan Grollman MSc'05 GS knows his audience well. Standing by the flagpole outside Rhode Island Hall, the computer science Ph.D. candidate arranged the arm strap of his instrument - a hefty bagpipe - ...

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 ...

A research project aims to uncover long-forgotten music composed by pipers in the killing fields of the First World War. Several of today's best known bagpipe tunes, such as Battle of the Somme and ...

In German, it’s called a dudelsack or a sackpfeife, in French a musette. The Italians know it as a piva, while in Spain it’s referred to as a gaita. But to Scotsmen like Iain McLeod of Edinburgh, it’s ...

Joseph Stapleton stands in front of the judge’s bench, making the kind of squawking noise associated with a tongue-lashing from the judge. But after hours, the cavernous ceremonial courtroom of the ...