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Guest performers scheduled include vocalist Karen Matheson, All-Ireland champion banjo player Enda Scahill, Scottish piper Ross Ainslie and others.
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Anne Schrager, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
Helping one family turned into helping hundreds, and along the way Biffle became something of a pied piper to other people who owned helicopters and wanted to help.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 18 Dec. 2025
And, in Edinburgh, the especially brave get the chance to play bagpipes with Scotland’s national piper, Louise Marshall, who has entertained queens, popes, and celebrities.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 6 Nov. 2025
It was preceded on departure from Kensington Palace by a piper from the Royal Dragoon Guards, for which Katharine had been the Deputy Colonel-in-Chief since the regiment's inception in 1992.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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Anne Schrager, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2026
Helping one family turned into helping hundreds, and along the way Biffle became something of a pied piper to other people who owned helicopters and wanted to help.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 18 Dec. 2025
And, in Edinburgh, the especially brave get the chance to play bagpipes with Scotland’s national piper, Louise Marshall, who has entertained queens, popes, and celebrities.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 6 Nov. 2025
It was preceded on departure from Kensington Palace by a piper from the Royal Dragoon Guards, for which Katharine had been the Deputy Colonel-in-Chief since the regiment's inception in 1992.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piper
Noun
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The group was founded in 1986 by the now-legendary Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser and his wife Sally Ashcraft, and now features more than 200 members.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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Prophet, folktale hero, missing Passover guest, bris supervisor, fiddler.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 May 2026
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Mihalka profiles several of baseball’s most prominent ballpark organists, including Gladys Goodding, who worked the keys and pedals for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1942 to 1957, and Nancy Faust, who was the organist for the Chicago White Sox from 1970 to 2010.—
Tom Reinsfelder,
The Conversation,
9 June 2026
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Torn between toiling away at farmwork, his corrective swimming lessons, and learning music from a local organist — the elderly Michel (Alexandre Astier, Clichy’s former directing partner), who shows him more kindness than most — Christophe’s world gradually widens.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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The tour will feature founder and guitarist Schon, keyboardist and backing vocalist Jonathan Cain, lead vocalist Arnel Pineda, keyboardist and vocalist Jason Derlatka, drummer and vocalist Deen Castronovo and bassist Todd Jensen.—
Daniela Avila,
PEOPLE,
11 Dec. 2025
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And with world-class musicians behind him, including Malo’s co-founders in the group, bassist Robert Reynolds and drummer Paul Deakin, the Mavericks earned a reputation as the most eclectic and entertaining of performers.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
9 Dec. 2025
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The soloist for this performance is the young Spanish violinist Maria Dueñas, first prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Competition’s senior division in 2021 as a teenager.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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Additional guests include actor Will Arnett and violinist Aleksandar Gajić.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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The film, which screened over the weekend in New York at the Steinway Hall, follows the story of Duo Amal, which comprises Palestinian pianist Bishara Haroni and Israeli pianist Yaron Kohlberg.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
8 Dec. 2025
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Roundtree believes her presence continues every time a pianist plays with feeling.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
8 Dec. 2025
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Things turn even jazzier a couple minutes in, when trumpeter Cees Bruinsma lays down the song’s ruminative central riff before veering off into exploratory flights of fancy.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2026
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Still, a budding jazz guitarist (Torn was mentored by pioneering trumpeter Don Cherry) joining forces with a rock icon’s sidemen for his recording debut shows a strong independent streak and no small amount of ambition.—
Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
1 June 2026
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The flutist Denis Bouriakov and the bassoonist Whitney Crockett applied pinpoint dexterity to Paganini and Rossini, respectively.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Also on the program was popular jazz pianist Danny Green, a fine pairing of flutist Elena Yarritu with pianist Cho-Hyun Park, and a cool duo of John Offerkuch on piano with Ian Harland on vibes.—
Lonnie Burstein Hewitt,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 May 2026
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His wife, Ruriko Terada Guo, is a harpist.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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The singer appeared on stage in front of a group of Modigliani paintings alongside a group of musicians, including a harpist and a string section.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Piper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piper. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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