You can do a lot with bagpipes, as the Red Hot Chilli Pipers prove.

The world’s top “Bagrock” band returns March 6 to the State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton.

The Pipers are known for combining traditional Scottish music with covers of rock songs like AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and Coldplay’s “Fix You.”

Speaking from Scotland, with a pronounced Scottish accent, in a Zoom interview, piper Willie Armstrong says, “You can’t just play solo bagpipes in a show for a general audience.”

Their covers use clever arrangements. “It’s not just ‘bagpipe karaoke.’ We carefully segue between rock and traditional,” says Armstrong.

Many of the traditional-sounding tunes are written by the band.

The group at the State Theatre will have three pipers, a drummer using a drum kit, a percussionist, a keyboard player, a bass player, a guitarist and a male vocalist. There might also be two dancers.

The Pipers have performed a concert at the State Theatre nearly every year since 2014 except during the pandemic.

“We were on our way to Easton and had to turn back just before the lockdown,” recalls Armstrong.

The Pipers will again be joined at the State Theatre by the Liberty High School Grenadier Pipes and Drums.

Armstrong says the Pipers will visit Liberty High School in advance of this year’s concert to give drum and pipe lessons to students. “They do a great job and get better and better every year,” he says. “A lot of young people have started playing the pipes because of us.”

Armstrong says the Pipers usually tour the United States for three months every year. “We cross the pond six or seven times a year.” They have played in most of Europe, Saudi Arabia, India, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand.

There are, unfortunately, some people who don’t like the bagpipes. Armstrong says that is because “Eighty percent of times bagpipes are out of tune. If not played properly, they can sound like a cat being strangled. They are one of the hardest instruments to master.

“I remember hearing a busker in Glasgow play out of tune and it broke my heart.” He suggested that it might be good for musicians to be required to have a license before they are allowed to play the bagpipes.

The Red Hot Chilli Pipers formed in 2002. At first playing weddings and corporate gigs, they gradually rose in popularity. In 2007 they were winners on the BBC talent show “When Will I Be Famous?”

They got their name when the girlfriend of co-founder Stuart Cassells was sorting his CDs, and she mistakenly put an album by the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers in with his traditional music CDs, misreading “peppers” for “pipers.”

Cassells had to leave the band after he developed a medical condition called “musician’s cramp” that left him unable to play the pipes.

The Chilli Pipers have released nine albums. Armstrong says the next one will be a “back to the roots” CD, which will sound more traditional.

Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Liberty High School Grenadier Pipes & Drums, 7:30 p.m. March 6, State Theatre Center for the Arts, 453 Northampton St., Easton. Tickets: 610-252-3132, www.statetheatre.org