Uilleann Piping is a musical practice in which a particular type of bagpipe (known as ‘uilleann’, ‘Irish’ or ‘union’ pipes) is used to play traditional music. Bearers and practitioners include ...

Although its original focus was the revival of Ireland's elbow-driven uilleann bagpipes (pronounced "ill-un"), the club rapidly expanded into teaching many other traditional instruments.

"When the Uilleann Pipes were developed, the big breakthrough was in producing a bagpipe capable of playing along with the fiddle and flute and concertina, tuned to the modern scale, as opposed to ...

Jim Smith started playing the bagpipes when he was 12 Jim Smith has played the bagpipes for more than 60 years but when he was told he would have to have all his teeth removed he thought his ...

The bagpipes, most commonly seen in their Great Highland form from Scotland, are a loud and imposing musical instrument. Known for being difficult to practice quietly, they’re not the ideal ...

The award-winning Byrne Brothers aim to raise the temperature when they perform a pulsating free show in Galway's West End at ...

Red Luck, an acoustic string trio with local ties, is bringing Irish and American traditional music to Poway’s Templars Hall ...

The popular Great Highland Bagpipe is used the world over to lift the spirits with tattoos and massed pipe bands and to remember and mourn the dead at funerals and memorials. It inspires soldiers ...

The Kerry Dance; The Green Factor; Oh Corko Mio; I Lost My Wisdom; Oh Danny Boy; The Untold Story; Somewhere Over the Rainbow; Wild Colonial Boy; Peter Pan; Your Highness. Ada Rovatti; Tenor and ...

At age 27, he recently placed fourth in the B Grade March, Strathspey and Reel event at the prestigious Northern Gathering bagpipes competition in Inverness, Scotland. "To the best of my knowledge ...

Their genre-defying compositions are lush with cyclical trance-like melodies, co-written by Belfast uilleann piper/whistle ... Ross Ainslie (Whistles, bagpipes) to the lineup, replacing founding ...