The International Bagpipe Organisation warmly invites you to attend the Seventh International Bagpipe Conference (IBC) to mark International Bagpipe Day 2024 (10 March), a celebration of the [...] Read more

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Wiebe Stodel's Bagpipedia The very first extensive encyclopaedic dictionary of international terminology of bagpipes and related instruments. An organological-linguistic study, provided with [...] Read more

Customs are practiced in many vilages on the mountains. But Gaida is played only In Pagoneri on the 6th of February, Volakas on the 6th and 7th of February and in Kali Vrisi onthe 6th, 7th [...] Read more

Happy New Year

The International Bagpipe Organisation presents the SIXTH INTERNATIONAL BAGPIPE CONFERENCE 11-13 March 2022 Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract submission [...] Read more

A new publication from our archieves of field recording of gaida players from the time period of 2008-2018. These field recordings are self sponsored. Mr Tsilogiorgos Nikolaos is the last [...] Read more

Watch the teaser of the new documentary of Gioegos Arvanites about the askaulos at https://thejourneyofaskavlos.com/

The presence of the gaida within the geographical boundaries of Greece Introduction The gaida is a type of musical instrument which belongs to the askaulos familly. Askaulos literary means [...] Read more

Tania Zountsa about her documentary: As a musician I often try to identify what the essence of sound is and how I became interested in it in the first place. In search of a topic valuable to [...] Read more

Gaida.gr will travll to Plovdiv to present the elder gaida players from the Northern Evros area. The proceedings will be held from Friday the 8th to th Sunday the 10th November 2019. For [...] Read more