There is no other music quite like the sound of bagpipes, and for one group of bagpipers in Cape Girardeau, performing with them is as much a chance to socialize as it is to honor tradition. Terry ...

To mark her longest reign, the pipers of the Royal Highland Fusiliers play what they call a "historic tune" publicly for the first time Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more ...

Bill Gilchrist got his bagpipes two days before he married his wife Debbie in 1963. "It was a pretty good week for me," he said, after playing a tribute he wrote for fallen law enforcement at the ...

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 ...

Legend has it that a couple of hundred years ago, a Scotsman traveling through England was condemned to death for carrying what the local authorities considered an instrument of insurrection. They ...

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 ...