Ashley MacIsaac is a master fiddler who changed Celtic folk music in Canada. A major 2025 concert was cancelled after Google ...

After hours at Crofton's Pretzels, owner Aidan Crofton takes the stage with his rock band alongside a collection of local ...

JOOLS Holland’s Annual Hootenanny is a New Year’s Eve staple, bringing together musical legends and rising stars for ...

THE success of comeback album Never/Know has inspired The Kooks’ frontman Luke Pritchard to get to work on their next one. He ...

“Any viewer’s tongue will grow shorter trying to describe it,” marveled the inveterate traveler Ibn Battuta while visiting Jerusalem in 1326. “This is one of the most fantastic of all buildings, of ...

The spectacle of bagpipe-playing shepherds still exists in Naples and Rome. Dressed in traditional sheepskin and woollen cloaks with peaked hats, the zampognari pipers come into the city from their ...

At Hamilton’s TD Coliseum, as 2025 was winding down, so was Paul McCartney’s latest — some wonder if it’s his final — North American tour. This penultimate show was another pilgrimage, some 18,000 ...

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 ...

BAGPIPE chiefs last night launched a proud defence of the instrument in the face of claims they’re not truly Scottish. But experts say that pipes from thousands of years are nothing like the ones ...

FERGUS – The Fergus Pipe Band marked the end of parade season with a holiday celebration at the Fergus Legion on Dec. 6. The group presented the James MacKenzie Award to Michael Giannikouris, a band ...