Having friends who are musicians has enlightened me about the persona of many musical instruments. It didn’t take me long to realize the banjo is a joke to many. I never knew that and, frankly, don’t ...

Robert Hackney plays guitar, banjo, mandolin and his favorite of all, the Great Scottish bagpipes. He picked up bagpipes 34 years ago because of an interest in folk music. “I fell in love,” Hackney ...

The cross streets of Market and Commerce are tremulous with the rush of visitors and San Antonio natives. They hustle from trolley to street corner, some plunging below onto the slices of sidewalk ...

In your musical nightmare are Scottish bagpipes playing while you run screaming into the night? In a double-feature musical nightmare, banjos are twanging away and you bury your head under the pillows ...