You see them on the streets, and certainly hear them when their sirens are blaring, but there's something you probably have never heard coming from the New Orleans Fire Department -- until now. The ...
Amarillo native John Brewer is what you’d call the godfather of ceremonial bagpipe tradition in West Texas. An accomplished musician and teacher with a heart for American patriotism, Brewer began ...
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WASHINGTON -- How will they get there? Where will they stay? What will it cost? That all will be worked out. But the Cleveland Firefighters Pipes and Drums made the hardest decision at a rehearsal ...
Stop by an Irish pub today, and if you’re lucky you’ll hear the evocative wail of a Great Highland Bagpipe. It’s an instrument with ancient roots in Scotland, not Ireland. Today, the men playing those ...
Throughout their history, bagpipes have been linked by definition with the fighting Scots — first the Highlanders who invented them, then the Scottish regiments of the United Kingdom. That military ...
For 23 years, Scott Musgrove has served in the Lake County Sheriff’s Department Honor Guard, making nearly a dozen trips to Washington, D.C., for National Police Memorial Week, culminating every May ...
Think of them, as one enthusiast suggests, as the “agony bags” or, as another said, “an acquired taste.” Some equate them to the sound of cats in great distress, although there also seems to be a bit ...
Celtic Pipes and Drums of Hawaii members perform at the Spirit of ’45 Wreath Laying Ceremony at Punchbowl in August 2015. Learning to play a bagpipe, like learning any musical instrument, takes time ...
The pipes, the pipes are calling from a parking lot. But soon they’ll be calling all the way from Glasgow, Scotland, where 20 pipers and 10 drummers from the Pikes Peak Highlanders Pipes and Drums ...
(CBS Detroit) --Detroit police are seeking the public's help in locating a suspect wanted for stealing a vehicle belonging to a member of the Metro Detroit Police and Fire Bagpipes & Drums. Police say ...
CHICAGO — Recognizable by just a few short notes, the Bagpipes and Drums of the Emerald Society have marched in parades and honored fallen police officers for decades. Formed in 1982 after two Chicago ...