piper

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Noun
  • Highlights include fiery fiddler Tom Rigney on Saturday at the Waverley Stage and a Uke Jam on Sunday at the Webster Stage.
    Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Headliners include perennial favorite folk-rockers Gaelic Storm, Dublin folk quartet The High Kings, modern Scottish instrumentalists Talisk, young folk singer Emma Langford and fiddler Eileen Ivers, among others.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Eddie produced many albums on the Alegre and Tico Records labels, including the 1971 classic Vámonos pa’l monte, which also featured his brother Charlie as guest organist.
    Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Bobby Freeman has been the Arizona Diamondbacks' organist since the team's inception in 1998.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Hinds co-founded Mastodon in 2000 with bassist Troy Sanders, guitarist Bill Kelliher, and drummer Brann Dailor.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Hermlin was performing as a drummer with another ensemble, not his own orchestra.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Featured on the album are violinist and violist Macie Stewart, cellist Ben Whiteley, upright bassist Nick Macri, and woodwinds player Hunter Diamond.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Federal immigration agents reportedly arrested a professional violinist on the same day of his wife's birthday.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The five members — Montesi, Dressler, fiddlers Maggie MacPhail and Julia Homa, and cellist/pianist Giulia Haible — originally met at the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School ten years ago; at the time their ages ranged from 7 to 11.
    Brett Milano, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • For his album release concert Sunday at Tio Leo’s, Sprague will perform with Moore, bassist Mackenzie Leighton and pianist Danny Green.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Windy City Ramblers — led by the bouncy trumpeter Mario Abney and, sometimes, his two pint-size kids — would then process into Pritzker Pavilion.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • While playing theatres across the country, Carson had worked with a young trumpeter named Doc Severinsen, who had been hired as an NBC studio musician at twenty-two and played lead in Henderson’s orchestra when Allen’s show first aired.
    Chris Almeida, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Saxophonist-flutist-vocalist Denson is a gifted jazz-funk veteran, and his band can be relentlessly energetic live.
    Bret Saunders, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Sophia is a flutist in the CHMS band program and picked up bass guitar during the last school year and joined the school’s Jazz Band.
    Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Watch chefs expertly prepare your dinner at Herons, or make a reservation for afternoon tea featuring a live harpist in the lounge.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
  • While jousting was too difficult to facilitate indoors, guests can see duels by Crossroads Swords, combat by Mythic Adventures LARP and entertainment from Pirates Dinner Adventure in addition to a harpist, a violinist and a wandering bard.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Piper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piper. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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