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 ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — When Rachel Clemente moved to Brattleboro in 2019, she hoped that she’d find someone who could make a small, Scottish harp, a clàrsach, ...

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 ...

It's been claimed that early bagpipes were actually used in modern-day Turkey back in 1000BC and the pipes did not appear in ...