SMARDAN, Romania (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vadim Ghirda has been working for The Associated Press since 1990 ...
The all-volunteer band was formed in 2002 and performs traditional and seasonal music on the Great Highland bagpipes and Scottish drums at parades, ceremonies and Celtic events throughout the region.
What sorrow then must bedew the visage of every Scot who hears that his time-honored bagpipes, drone, chanter, bellows and al , are not Scotch The skirl and the growl are not the proper companions ...
Many Scots celebrate the event with a Burns supper, eating a meal of haggis plus neeps and tatties, and dinners are often punctuated with bagpipe music ... of Orkney-based Highland Park distillery ...