You don’t often expect to hear the sound of bagpipes in the middle of Saskatoon, but when you do, it turns heads. It’s loud, a little strange and completely unforgettable.

Nate Linsley’s love of the unique instrument all started with a simple ad in the city’s leisure guide. • Poems for $1: Meet the Saskatchewan girl selling kindness by the line • Northern skies, family ties: The Paceys and the legendary Beaver • Saskatchewan’s own Nessie? The tale of the Turtle Lake Monster

“My mom found an ad in the leisure guide when I was maybe, I think I was eight, offering bagpipe lessons,” he said. “And so she brought it up and I thought, ‘Why not? That’d be super cool.’”

Thoday, Linsley is the director of the 96th Highlanders, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Celtic music and

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