Hearing bagpipe music may pop images of men in kilts from the Scottish Highlands into your mind. Cristina Pato would like to add her own image representing Galicia in northern Spain, where she gained ...

When pianist and gaita (bagpipes) player Cristina Pato was growing up in Galicia, a northwest region of Spain, she had a life-changing experience. “I am not the only female bagpiper, but I was the ...

The world’s most adventurous bagpipe player doesn’t hail from Ireland. Or Scotland. Or Wales. Or even France’s historically Celtic Brittany region. No, the most progressive piper comes from Spain. In ...

Playing Steve Reich's music demands incredible precision and accuracy. You wonder whether the ideal Reich recording could be realised in a studio, using sequencers, samplers and loops. The intent ...

In their 2005 performance at the Phillips Center, The Chieftains introduced a young piper who dazzled the audience with the sweet sound of a different sort of bagpipes. The Chieftains called the ...

The 2014 Colorado Scottish Festival in Highlands Ranch features a Saturday evening performance by Spanish bagpiper Carlos Núñez, who is the world’s most famous player of the gaita, the bagpipes of ...

Galicia, in the northwestern corner of Spain, is a land very unlike the stereotypical Spanish landscape. More akin in mood and look to Ireland and Scotland than to the beaches of the Costa del Sol or ...

Like most festivals devoted to Scottish culture, the annual Colorado Scottish Festival at the Highlands Heritage Park in Highlands Ranch features caber tossing, haggis eating and plenty of bagpiping.