2020

October 8, 2020

Richmond School community hosts final farewell to Dave Clark

• Bagpipes

The sound of bagpipes welcomed popular deputy headteacher Dave Clark into Richmond School car park for a final time. 

October 1, 2020

The Final Countdown

Bagpiper Archy J (who goes by “The Snake Charmer”) partnered with 8 other artists for this rockin’ version of the awesome 80s tune “The Final Countdown” by Europe.

September 10, 2020

Bagpipes played Amazing Grace during the graveside service. As the Caledonia Lodge Bagpipe ...

• Bagpipes

Bagpipes played Amazing Grace during the graveside service. As the Caledonia Lodge Bagpipe Players of Salina, Kansas, traveled to honor the Baxter Springs sailor. While playing they walked away in the distance to the north. Their playing was drown out by the military flyover. It was a perfectly timed out and meaningful moment. Caledonia Lodge is a Scottish Rite Masonic Lodge with a Celtic flare. Caledonia #459, part of District 03C, is the only Lodge in Kansas with a Lodge Piper. BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. — A World War II sailor who was killed during the Pearl Harbor attack will be finally be laid to rest in his hometown due to DNA matching.

September 10, 2020

Brìghde Chaimbeul's Scottish small pipes and the late philosopher and musician Roger Scruton

• Bagpipes

It’s not every other day that an album of traditional bagpipe tunes makes a “best album” list. Brìghde Chaimbeul’s done it with her first album. She’s the 21-year old musician from Skye who’s changing the audience and sound of pipes music. …

September 10, 2020

Famous pipers: PM John MacLean

• Pipers

My father, John MacLean, was born in the solitary house on the small tidal island of Kirkibost, North Uist, where his father, Angus, was the herdsman.