Band members rock out in kilts, while music fans are drawn to the drone. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Feb. 11, 2008— -- A quarter of a million people flock to Scotland's Edinburgh Castle every summer to ...
Scotland is often associated with the famous Highland bagpipes - an integral part of Scottish culture. However, a history writer has recently highlighted that the instrument is not truly Scottish and ...
The 2015 Alaska Scottish Highland Games take place on Saturday, June 27. One of the most stirring moments -- and probably the loudest -- will be when ranks of kilted pipers and drummers from around ...
The sound of the bagpipes has the unmistakable stamp of Scotland -- and defies an American explanation. Is it an old Oldsmobile horn that won't turn off? A smoke detector on steroids? Or, a duck being ...
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, ...
IT’S news likely to get Scots hot under the kilt as a historian claims that bagpipes — one of the nation’s national symbols — are not actually Scottish. Instead, the wailing wind instruments ...