See schedule below for more details
Tickets for all events are available HERE
Welcome to the Fifth International Bagpipe Conference!
Here is a breakdown of the schedule for the weekend. If you still have questions after reading it through, please write to us at [email protected]
NOTE! If you wish to purchase a ticket ONLY for the Friday night concert, please visit Harvard's ticketing service (https://bit.ly/2utiGRI). For any other combined ticket with the concert, please follow THIS LINK.
Friday 13 March 2020
Bagpipes of the World Concert
8pm at Paine Hall, Harvard University
Featuring bagpipes from Estonia, Greece, France, Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Spain and Austria
Note: if you only wish to attend this event, please visit Harvard's ticketing service (https://bit.ly/2utiGRI).
Saturday 14 March 2020
Day event
Fifth International Bagpipe Conference
8:30am-6pm
Paine Hall, Harvard University
Paper sessions, discussion panels, etc.
THE FULL PROGRAMME IS COMING SOON
Papers include
'Under the Kilt: The Pipe Band as a Tool of Cultural Transmission',
'Surdulina: a little bagpipe of Balkan origins, built in the USA and returned to Italy'
'Bagpipes, “Martial Races”, and Empire in the Central Himalayas'
and
'The spread of Uillean Piping in Cuba'.
with speakers from all over the world including Spain, Italy, Estonia, Greece, USA, China and more.
Evening event
Bring your own bagpipe – curated session
INCLUDED IN TICKET (all delegates are welcome, as are friends and family)
8pm till late at The Bebop
1116 Boylston Street
Boston MA 02215
Sunday 15 March 2020
Bagpipe Brunch
INCLUDED IN TICKET (all delegates are welcome, as are friends and family)
9am-12pm at The Bebop
Buy your Own Brunch
Have some brunch while listening to informed bagpipe performanced with Cätlin Mägi and friends
1116 Boylston Street
Boston MA 02215
Dancing with the Pipers Social Dance
1:30-3:30
Participatory Folk Dance and Demonstrations: Irish Ceilí, Step, and Sean Nós dancing; Breton dancing, Greek dancing.
Led by Jaclyn O'Riley & Joey Abarta, Bagad New York, an others: dance and discover folk dances from different piping traditions.
Tickets for all events are available HERE
Artwork by Jesse Smith