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Bringing Scotland to the Pacific Northwest for over 75 years through the skirl o’ the Pipes and Drums, the beauty of Highland Dancing, the brawn of Scottish athletics, and the sharing of clan history!

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

Thousands of Scotland fans are in London ahead of their Euro 2020 match with England - but the skirl of the bagpipes has largely been drowned out by a 1970s disco classic.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021

"It had all the strange, wild, emotional force of the skirl of a bagpipe," wrote Herbert Warren Wind.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 13, 2020

The skirl also got to Lily Cunningham, a pixie of a 13-year-old who stood beside the evening’s emcee, Arthur McAra, clutching her three-quarter-sized bagpipe.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2017

Two Glover men began a spinning skirl on bladder and woodharp.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Its unnerving drones and belligerent skirls have been known to stir men's blood, their brains and, according to Shakespeare, their bladders.*

From Time Magazine Archive

It went on and on and on, never faltering, never pausing, in soft trills and gay roulades, shrill skirls or flute-like warblings, a continuous outpour, for I don't know how many minutes.

From The Lady Paramount by Harland, Henry

"But she threeps to keep on a black fause-face, and skirls if we offer to take it away."

From The Surgeon's Daughter by Scott, Walter, Sir

He heard our skirls," Birse said, "but couldna grip the words ony mair than we could hear the earl.

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

“I heard the voice of that lad Andrew Lammie; can the chield be drowning that he skirls sae uncannily?” said the old woman, seating herself on the ground, and looking earnestly at the water. 

From Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland by Anonymous

Then the bagpipes skirled, and the coffin was loaded into the hearse and borne away for a private burial.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2014

A bagpiper skirled "Amazing Grace," wreaths were laid and a bugler played "Taps."

From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2014

No bagpipe skirled in all Ireland, said dispatches; Dublin pubs were shuttered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scottish veterans of far-off El Alamein heard it in the whine of shells, and they skirled bagpipes and sang Annie Laurie as they crossed the Rhine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the darkness was closing in on his family; now the evil music filled the night, hung over the mangroves, skirled in the wave beat.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

Two minutes later John McGinn smashed a shot on to the Chelsea bar from 30 yards, the rebound sending the ball skirling up a similar distance into the London sky.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2020

He turned Ms. Nicks’s “Gold Dust Woman” into a darker incantation before taking a long, skirling, keening solo in his own “I’m So Afraid”; “Tusk” was a cry of despair, not a novelty.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2014

Distinct from the lilting singsong of the South, a Northern Irish accent is my favorite in the U.K.: hard, skirling, and sour, with a compulsively upward, interrogative lift at the end of the sentence.

From Newsweek ● Jul. 11, 2011

But there is still something magnificent – and magnificently out-of-kilter – about this great skirling tide of productivity.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2010

Another cliff-ghast and then a third fell in the stream or on the rocks nearby, stark dead; and then the rest fled, skirling and chittering into the dark toward the north.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman