The weekend of March 24th, 2012, brought the 8th Annual San Francisco International Bagpipe Festival to the Croatian American Cultural Center. It featured bagpipe music from around the world, including Spain, Italy, Greece and many other countries including Scotland and Ireland, of course. Also available was ethnic Bulgarian food to round out the afternoon.
Since this was the 8th annual Festival, if you missed it be sure to mark your calendar for next year, as the Festival will surely return again next spring. And if you are a San Francisco bagpiper , remember to bring your pipes along for free admission !
One other area of interest for those who love bagpipers in San Francisco and would love to learn how to play the pipes, is a program started in the fall of 2011 from a partnership between the Irish Pipers Band and the United Irish Cultural Center. This program is free to children and teens aged 8-18 who are interested in learning to play the Great Highland Bagpipe. All that is needed is the purchase of materials and the group instruction is free of charge.
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