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,” ...

Miami University Regionals Artist Series continues its season with an outstanding lineup of performances that includes Galician bagpipes, traditional and progressive bluegrass, Celtic, jazz and folk ...

Watch a Galician bagpiper and her trio take the traditionally Celtic sound of her bagpipes in an entirely new, wild and wonderful direction. The Cristina Pato Trio: Tiny Desk Concert After nearly a ...

One might be surprised to hear that great Celtic music comes out of Spain. And one of its leading cultural ambassadors is the virtuosic bagpipe and recorder player, Carlos Nunez, from the Galician ...

Yo-Yo Ma doesn’t wait for musicians to come collaborate with him. He sends scouts around the world to find them. The result? The Silk Road Ensemble, Ma's collective that promotes collaboration between ...

The Wall Street Journal has called musician Cristina Pato “one of the living masters of the gaita.’’ What’s a gaita? You can find out when Pato performs Wednesday night at 7:30 at the Ware Center, as ...

The world’s most adventurous bagpipe player doesn’t hail from Ireland. Or Scotland. Or Wales. Or even France’s historically Celtic Brittany region. No, the most progressive piper comes from Spain. In ...

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One of my most memorable music festival experiences was the day I saw the rambunctious Spanish multi-instrumentalist Carlos Núñez rock out on the gaita at the Colorado Scottish Festival near Denver.