An atypical musical group – the Moscow & District Pipe Band – staged a concert at Alexei Kozlov’s jazz club in Moscow. It is not often that you hear Russian folk tunes and Scottish battle marches at a ...

Miami University Regionals Artist Series continues its season with an outstanding lineup of performances that includes Galician bagpipes, traditional and progressive bluegrass, Celtic, jazz and folk ...

It was in the early 1980s, on reading the study The Maltese Zaqq by J.K. Partridge and Frank Jeal (Galpin’s Society’s Journal, vol. 30, 1977, pp. 112-144), that I decided to see for myself why the ...

SCOTLAND’S national musical instrument, the bagpipe entered the Uttarakhand hills through army troupes stationed in Garhwal and Kumoan during the British period. But, the foreign musical instrument ...

A cracking dancer … Jack Anderson in Not for Glory at Assembly @ Dance Base.Photograph: Brian Hartley Jack Anderson was once a champion Irish dancer who toured the world in popular shows. But when he ...

Andy Letcher looks like a pastiche of English folklore and history. Waxy-faced and cheery-eyed, Letcher sports broad-brimmed hats, clothes that look like they’ve been in mothballs for the better part ...

Robert Hackney plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and his favorite of all, the Great Scottish bagpipes. He picked up bagpipes 34 years ago because of an interest in folk music. “I fell in love,” Hackney ...

CHENNAI: It isn't often that a seven-year-old meets a storyteller named Helmut from the land of fairy tales - Austria. This is where the infamous Grimm Brothers were from. The event, a session on ...

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — “Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.” Listeners can hear them in Squeeze the Bag!, a concert associated with Shepherdstown’s Upper Potomac Piper’s Weekend, from 8 to 10 ...

Since its inception 41 years ago in France, the Fête de la Musique, known in English as World Music Day, has become something of an international sensation. The celebration of all things musical takes ...