Bagpipers and drummers from across North America and the U.K. hope to stay on the beat and in tune this week in Kansas City while competing in the annual Winter Storm piping and drumming contest.

MEMBERS of Warwick’s Thistle Pipe Band are asking for aspiring pipe players to help them return to the former glory days of this historic local club. Launching a new initiative titled Project 100, ...

The snare drum is huge! Not that it’s ever been unimportant in the grand drumming scheme of things, but the rise of several forms of dance music has seen more attention focused on the snare than at ...

New York City Fire Department Capt. Liam Flaherty learned to play the bagpipes from a fellow firefighter so he could perform with the FDNY's storied pipes and drums band. But even after a year of ...

It was a warm, clear summer night when Los Gatan Maribeth Allen heard the music. She had been outside stargazing when she heard a melody begin, but she couldn’t believe her ears. “Were those bagpipes ...