Musician Cristina Pato was four years old when she began playing the Galician bagpipes, and five when she started playing the piano and entered the conservatory. “I have some sort of double life,” ...

After nearly a decade spent living in the city, Cristina Pato is a full-fledged New Yorker. But her first home is the place where Spain meets the Celtic world: Galicia. Pato's instrument is the gaita, ...

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Ordinarily, a long-distance interview on a phone connection so bad the interviewee can’t be understood is no way to get inside the thoughts and spirit of an extraordinary artist such as Carlos Núñez.

Galician Rodrigo Romani can’t be accused of overselling the group he brings to Edinburgh International Harp Festival next weekend. Its instrumentation includes two “toys” and its sound, he says, is a ...

The bagpipes are among the world’s best-known musical instruments, largely identified with the Celtic cultures of western Europe but whose roots, scholars are finding, are actually more Iberian. One ...

Spectacular Spanish Bagpipes (Carlos Núñez with the Victoria Symphony) When: Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. Where: Royal Theatre Tickets: $15 to $80 (including student and senior discounts ...

It may be made of some hi-tech space fabric nowadays, but the bagpipe still bears the stamp of its ancient origin as a shepherd’s instrument. It looks like a goatskin, with pipes – drones, fingerboard ...