The brilliant Baghdaddies will be going bagpipe-crazy in a groundbreaking performance as part of the 49th Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering. Band member Ziad Jabero has been working with staff at the ...

The bagpipes are synonymous with Scotland, so why on earth was the first museum dedicated to them in the UK opened in Northumberland? This curious museum in Morpeth Chantry has an impressive ...

How they are made and played is influenced by culture France Musette de cour: A French open ended smallpipe, believed by some to be an ancestor of the Northumbrian smallpipes, used for classical ...