Are you a lucky or unlucky person? Or, to put it more precisely, are you prepared to be lucky... Given that next Sunday is St. Patrick’s...

Sharing from the NCDPS: The State Highway Patrol honored 55 sworn and 11 civilian members yesterday during a promotional ceremony held a...

You may not have caused this problem yourself, but it is your job to do something about it, especially when you hold any kind of a leader...

“What we found is that people who have worked together for 10 or 15 years can learn new things about their coworkers through music, shari...

St. Valentine’s Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories w...

If you haven’t heard of The Piano Guys before then let us just tell you that you are seriously missing out.  These guys are a perfect exa...

Sharing from the White House Historical Association — On November 13, 1963, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), a British Army lin...

Too much time and energy in life gets spent trying to fit in…trying to be seen as “normal”.  I personally think that normal is pretty bor...

On Monday, February 4, 2019 -- the sound of the bagpipes filled the air at the Raleigh Police Memorial in honor of a Raleigh Police Offi...

A bagpipe band is not a finished product. Every well built band started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the na...

It is impossible to understate the importance of leadership in any human endeavor. Proverbs says: “Where there is no vision, the people p...

When I was a teenager I was the primary target of an extremely persistent bully at my high school.  One day I came home in tears and wrot...

Our members come from all walks of life and bring an indeterminate amount of experience with them. We are Seabees, police officers, firef...

Most bands like to measure themselves by their strongest, most talented people. However, the strength of the band is always impacted by t...

Victor Hugo said -- "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." Music gives a soul to the ...

On Monday, January 7, 2019 the Wake and District Public Safety Pipes and Drums held our annual general meeting to review and plan for 201...

We often make the assumption, what is interesting to us is therefore interesting to others. If you have read one of these year end entrie...

The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No Poem by Shel Silverstein It was nine o'clock at midnight at a quarter after three When a turtle met a bagpi...

Theodore Roosevelt said – “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”  May we add — “with those around you“.   Wake and Distric...

I'm always looking out for a unique presentation of musical performance and analysis. Last week I made a brief post talking about ear tr...