Cristina Pato is a jazz pianist from Spain who also plays flute and sings. But on her new album, Migrations, there's a striking sound not often heard in jazz: a bagpipe. Pato has been playing the ...

The bagpipes aren’t only for men in kilts. And they’re not just from the British Isles. Cristina Pato has been wowing the world for years with her gaita-a small version of the bagpipes from the region ...

Hearing bagpipe music may pop images of men in kilts from the Scottish Highlands into your mind. Cristina Pato would like to add her own image representing Galicia in northern Spain, where she gained ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The bagpipes are among the world’s best-known musical instruments, largely identified with the Celtic cultures of western Europe but whose roots, scholars ...

Aug. 5 – Jam session with Beat Kaestli & Band (Switzerland) and Costa Rica New Jazz Project, 11:30 a.m., Eugene O’Neill Theater, CCCN, Barrio Dent; concert by Túpac Amarulloa Ensemble, 5 p.m., Auto ...

When pianist and gaita (bagpipes) player Cristina Pato was growing up in Galicia, a northwest region of Spain, she had a life-changing experience. “I am not the only female bagpiper, but I was the ...

On the new album Migrations, Cristina Pato plays the gaita, a bagpipe from her native region of Galicia in northwest Spain. Cristina Pato is a jazz pianist from Spain who also plays flute and sings.