Cristina Pato's passion for the pipes

Cristina Pato Quartet
When: April 11, 8 p.m.
Where: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, UBC
Tickets and info: tickets.ubc.ca
Spanish piper, composer and pianist Cristina Pato can amaze with her mastery of the Galician gaita (bagpipes). The first female gaita player to record a solo album, she is also an original member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.
With that group and her own bands, she has spread the sound of her instrument worldwide.
There may not be another bagpiper in the world w