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

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

Famous pipers: PM John MacLean
Famous pipers: PM John MacLean 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. …

How Ireland's tradition of blind musicians led to a new vision for orchestral music
How Ireland's tradition of blind musicians led to a new vision for orchestral music Within the Irish ‘uilleann’ piping tradition, there existed two particularly famous blind musicians, both from County Clare. The fame of Pádraig O’Briain … …

Irish Jig on Fiddle & Uilleann Pipes - Cherish the Ladies - Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson
Irish Jig on Fiddle & Uilleann Pipes - Cherish the Ladies - Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson 3.2k members in the Fiddle community. Topics relating to fiddles, fiddling, fiddlers and fiddle music. …