Bagpipes in Bohemia: A festival full of surpises
The world’s biggest bagpipe festival is not in Scotland but in an obscure, post-industrial town in the Czech Republic.
Read moreThe world’s biggest bagpipe festival is not in Scotland but in an obscure, post-industrial town in the Czech Republic.
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Read moreEvery two years the International Bagpipe Festival draws pipers from all over Europe — and occasionally from as far away as New Zealand — to a small town in the Czech Republic.
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