In my experience, most people see bagpipe music as fitting for only two types of occasions: weddings and funerals. So it was heartening to be asked to use the instrument to help recreate that ...

Madonna insisted on what she called “romantic music” when she discussed her wedding with cathedral organist Stuart Anderson. She also opted for Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” – the theme for ...

The 63-year-old former educator took up the bagpipes in the late 1980s. "I signed up for a community education class," she says. "I thought it sounded like fun." Today she plays for weddings ...

They also play at weddings, parades and everywhere ... bringing their bagpipes with them. "A lot of the music in this area — bluegrass and country, [for example] — comes from Celtic, Scottish ...

Dressed in her full Scottish regalia, Potter can be found playing the bagpipes at funerals, weddings ... “They can feel the music. It’s very moving.” Potter took her first bagpipe lesson ...

But in the hills of Garhwal in Uttarakhand, Indian bagpipers are proud members of bands that provide the background score to weddings. Bagpipes have a better known military history. No military ...