CHICAGO - Bagpipes can play mournful renditions of “Amazing Grace,” and they line the streets at the South Side Irish Parade.
Rarely, though, are they the instrument of choice for a strolling musician at a romantic, candlelit dinner.
But for Kitty Kirk and Dave McKee, bagpipes helped start a love story that is still going strong 40 years later.
In 1964, Kitty and her younger brother, Frank, took two buses from their Chicago home on Garfield Boulevard to see a bagpipe band march in a parade in Chicago’s Garfield Ridge community.
Frank was enthralled, and began taking bagpipe lessons. When his teacher moved out of town, Kitty took him to find a new teacher where the Chicago Stock Yards Kilty Band practiced.
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