Buying and selling bagpipes and supplies on and offline: hazards and benefits

To most readers of this Vancouver and Pacific Northwest bagpiping blog, the bagpiping forums at bobdunsire.com is a familiar online location to connect with the piping and drumming community worldwide. It’s here you can buy and sell pipes and supplies, listen in and participate in lively discussions about just about everything in the piping world, …

Top 10 bagpipe tunes to inspire English football team to victory in World Cup

One of the most inspiring sounds that can reach deep into a Scotsman’s or Brit’s soul, whether he or she is from the Old Country or are descendants living around the globe, is that of the massed bagpipes and drums playing together some of the most recognizable music in the bagpipe repertoire. For centuries the …

Bagpiping in Vancouver, BC in the rain, mist and gloom

Will this gloom ever end? The clouds and rain moved into the Lower Mainland of B.C. in early April. It’s now mid-June and it was 11 degrees today. I could see my breath when I went outside. Mo chreach! (that’s Gaelic, for ‘my goodness’).  I’ve been trying to get outside for a few tunes, but …