Deb Siebert figures she must be passionate, crazy or both. Siebert and her husband, Paul, who live in Manito, near Peoria, travel 170 miles one-way weekly to practice with the Midlothian Scottish Pipe ...

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 ...

McPHERSON – Between the rainy weather Saturday and performances by the City of McPherson Pipe Band, the newly renamed McPherson Festival of Cultures kept a distinctly Scottish atmosphere. The band ...

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 ...

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, ...