I’ve always loved the sound of bagpipes. The movie “Gunga Din” had a scene with bagpipe music in it. I am Scots Irish so maybe that played a part …
I met Bagpiper Michael Hostler a few months ago when my beau Ron Gill’s band, “The Lowbillies” had a gig in Hutchinson Square. Michael has had quite a life. He grew up across from Kent State University. He was at the KSU Commons (N. end) as a teen when he saw and heard the infamous shots ring out at the S. End of the commons in front of the Pagoda on May 4, 1970, when four KSU students were gunned down by the Ohio National Guard. They were protesting the invasion of Cambodia and La