On any given day, the craggy mountains, shaggy, horned highland cows and imposing stone castles of Scotland are a bit out of reach at more than 3,600 miles from Blacksburg; nevertheless, every year, ...

McPHERSON – Between the rainy weather Saturday and performances by the City of McPherson Pipe Band, the newly renamed McPherson Festival of Cultures kept a distinctly Scottish atmosphere. The band ...

There’s something intrinsically loveable about the Scottish. Free of any modern political prominence, the culture is largely focused on symbolic pride. Be it kilts, strongman competitions, bagpipes or ...

Sheila Liming grew up in Seattle playing "normal" instruments, including the piano and flute, she said, until her grandmother persuaded her to take up the bagpipes. Her grandmother, whose father had ...

SALISBURY — While they may not play “Californication,” “Under the Bridge” and other Red Hot Chili Peppers hits, the similarly named Scottish rock bagpipe band Red Hot Chili Pipers will be putting ...