#01 Piper Staccato – Callum Armstrong

#01 Piper Staccato – Callum Armstrong

by | Mar 15, 2020 | video

Piper staccato, a podcast produced by Gonçalo Cruz, is aimed as an international pro-bono project creating cultural bridges. On this episode, Callum Armstrong, a piper from England, lets us know how he became in love with bagpipes and tells us all about his current...

The Estonian Torupill

by | Nov 30, 2019 | BNM 01

Leanne Barbo (Estonia) Leanne is the head of Tallinn Dance Club, teaching folklore and kantele at Tabasalu Children’s Music School. She has also, since 2016, been teaching bagpipes and harps at the Tallinn People’s University. Leanne often participates in summer camps...
The Latvian Duda

The Latvian Duda

by | Nov 30, 2019 | BNM 01

Juris Lipsnis (Latvia) Juris is an Architect by profession, with a strong passion for folk traditions. He is a Dūdas piper and head of the Latvian folk-group “Suitu dūdenieki” Juris is a board member of the non profit “Suiti Cultural Heritage”, as well as an organizer...
Finnish Säkkipilli – State of the Art

Finnish Säkkipilli – State of the Art

by | Nov 30, 2019 | BNM 01

Markus Rantanen (Finland) Markus is a music educator and performing artist, as well as a “Finnd’it initiative” member. He has specialised in a range of string music instruments – teaches guitar, ukulele, folk music and songwriting at Turun seudun musiikkiopisto....
A Finnish Piper at the theatre

A Finnish Piper at the theatre

by | Nov 30, 2019 | BNM 01

Patrik Weckman (Finland) Patrik is a folk musician and researcher, as well as a “Finnd’it initiative” member. He started by making small kanteles and jouhikko (bowed lyre) and learning to play them. Inspired by Hedningarna, 20 years ago he acquired is first bagpipe –...

01 Bagpipe Network Meetings Latvian Dūdas

by | Nov 20, 2019 | News

FULL PROGRAM Latvian folk-group “Suitu dūdenieki”gathering Latvian traditional pipers in the Suiti region (2018 and 2019) Available seats are limited! PLEASE inform us you will be attending by filling this FORM NOTE: If you already play some bagpipe, please become...

A Finnish Piper living at the National Theater

by | Sep 26, 2019 | Iconography

Patrik Weckman, a recent member of our growing Finnish piper’s network, has brought to our attention an interesting artwork by the painter Juho Rissanen (1873-1950). In picture 1 – “Kolme soittajaa” (Three players) – the 1928 sketch intended as a study for...