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
  • Monday Summer Organ Festival: The 37th annual San Diego International Summer Organ Festival, running Mondays through Sept. 1, continues next week with Not-So-Silent Movie Night, featuring organist Russ Peck accompanying the films of Laurel and Hardy.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Saxophonist Jerry Weldon joins guitarist Ted Ludwig, Hammond B3 organist Pat Bianchi and percussionist Steve Pruitt at Birdies Cabaret Theater & Lounge, 301 Main St., North Little Rock.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Oppenheimer recalls meeting Ramone and that the drummer asked about the family band’s music in Peas and Carrots.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The drummer playfully taps out a beat to match the roaring engine.
    Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Daring composer Jlin also collaborates with violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain and percussive dancer Leonardo Sandoval.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Blending lyrical sensuality and emotional force, Primavera tells the story of Cecilia, a gifted young violinist raised in an orphanage in 18th-century Venice, whose world is turned upside down by her encounter with Antonio Vivaldi.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The former artistic director of the organization's jazz programming, composer and pianist Jason Moran, departed in July after joining the Kennedy Center in 2011.
    Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The pianist’s choice of instrument also matters.
    Anna Haines, Forbes.com, 11 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
  • The Replacements’ Tommy Stinson and harpist Mikaela Davis make guest appearances, alongside Miranda and bassist, Cameron Ralston, who joined the band following the departure of longtime bassist and backup vocalist Peter Hughes last year.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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“Piper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piper. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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