Elijah Woodward leans back in his seat and taps his bare foot on the tile in his kitchen, keeping in time with an electric metronome. Across the way, his student, Genesis Short, blows into her bagpipe ...
Back in the early 1980s, when Juneau’s waterfront was between the mining boom and the cruise ship boom, Puggy Nelson and I would ignore the “No Trespassing” sign, go around a chain link fence and walk ...
Some may liken their sound to the screeching of a cat in pain. To others, though, bagpipe music inspires strong emotion and even tears. And it will surely be a surprise for many to discover that one ...
Seven years ago, Mason Valley Fire Chief Scott Draper floated a question to Aaron Pelligrini, one of the department’s newest volunteers: What would it take to form a bagpipe and drum band to honor the ...