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Sacred Sounds and Spaces: Bagpipes

Robbie Rogers — Thu, 05 May 2022 20:16:00 +0000

Here’s a program about pipes with Seamus Dunning and Rob Rogers, produced and written by Adam Van Wickle for AIB TV. Adam sits down with the two pipers to talk about the origins of the bagpipes, the rarely told history of this ancient instrument, and the unique sound of bagpipes. Hear Seamus, Rob, (and a …

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Piping in a Pandemic

Robbie Rogers — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:50:30 +0000

Early Friday morning my phone rang. It was an American calling from Spain, which got my attention (he’s from Atlanta metro area). His aunt here in Georgia had just lost her son. Although he and his wife are in Spain right now, he wanted to do something for her. She’s half-Scottish, he said. Would I …

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The Battle’s Over

Robbie Rogers — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:46:35 +0000

It was still dark when I arrived at Newtown Park in Johns Creek at 5:45 a.m. on November 11th, on the chilly side in the upper 30’s. I saw Kari’s big Toyota 4 Runner in the parking lot already. No Bob. (Surprise—he’s usually the first one anywhere we go.) I got out of my car …

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The Ranger at the Funeral

Robbie Rogers — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 20:36:48 +0000

For many people, bagpipes are often closely associated with funerals. As pipers, playing funerals is just one of the things we do. Nevertheless, it’s an important one. And it is a privileged role. The unique sound and music of great highland bagpipes has a way of piercing the soul. In circumstances of a funeral, the …

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Up/Down, Sharp/Flat – Sorting Things Out

Robbie Rogers — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:56:28 +0000

“You can tune those things?” my son asks with an incredulous expression. It’s his favorite bagpipe joke. Though many may have seriously wondered, yes, you can (and must) tune bagpipes. Friend and EUSPBA Judge Al McMullin once told me, “It doesn’t matter how well you play, if the pipes are out of tune, no one …

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Ceol Mor Catharsis

Robbie Rogers — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:14:34 +0000

My sisters love the bagpipes. Friends love the pipes. People I don’t know in the park or at a gig tell me they love the pipes. As a piper I am always glad to hear it. But there is a kind of music I play that not everyone loves. It’s called ceol mor, which means …

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The Worlds (2018)

Robbie Rogers — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 03:22:46 +0000

Wake Up! It’s Time for the Party Ever been to a party that starts an hour before dawn and ends in the afternoon? Dragging ourselves up at 4:45 a.m. on a Saturday morning, we hop into the car and head over to band mates Will & Kathleen’s house. It’s time for the North Georgia Pipes & …

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