"rant (rant) n. boisterous or riotous merry-making" (The Concise Scots Dictionary). This new release lives up to the Scots dictionary's definition, featuring the energy of the Grade One City of Washington Pipe Band and the grace of Scottish fiddler, Bonnie Rideout, praised as "An extremely talented fiddler with a true empathy for the wild and gentle moods of Gaelic music." Folkroots (U.K.). Together they celebrate and perform highland bagpipe music from Scotland, Ireland, Spain, and North America in innovative new arrangements including small ensembles with solo pipes, small-pipes, drums, fiddle, viola, cittern, guitar, dombek, and bodhran.