3 generations of this pipe-and-drum band have helped Kansas City celebrate St. Patrick's Day

The St. Andrews Pipes & Drums band plays year-round at graduations and funerals. But there's nothing like the thrill of Kansas City's legendary St. Patrick's Day parade.
Iain McKee grew up listening to the hum of the Highland bagpipe. Sixty years ago, his grandfather Wallace McKee helped found St. Andrews Pipes & Drums.

"Nobody ever told me I had to play the pipes," Iain says. "I was around it, obviously, growing up and I was over at my grandparents house one day and my grandpa said, 'Hey, maybe I can show you how to play a scale.' And I said, 'Oh, that'd be kind of cool."

Iain thought the resulting sound was "pretty neat," so he showed his dad what he'd learned.

"He got really excited," Iain remembers, "and he started lining up lessons with me and my best friend and just kind of took off from there."