PITTSBURGH—Ally Crowley-Duncan strutted around the stage at the Pittsburgh Irish Festival like a rock star. But forget the Stratocaster; she was wailing away on red set of MacLellan bagpipes. The ...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a feature (subscription required) on what it says is the “only student majoring in bagpipes at any American university or college.” He’s Nick Hudson, a freshman at ...

Let’s face it, the sound of bagpipes is a pretty Marmite-y proposition – for every person who goes glassy-eyed at a stirring reel, there’s someone else who wouldn’t wish such dour tunelessness upon ...