I have more than
30 years of piping experience and usually perform in full highland
dress, - in the ancient, hunting, MacLeod tartan. I try to play for 5-9
engagements a month. I've played for numerous weddings, funerals, and
other events, and in pipe bands.
I've studied in
Edinburgh, Scotland, two separate years (1976-1977 and 2003-2004), and
played in the Fettes College Pipe Band and at the Edinburgh Tattoo in
the Castle, when I went to school there.
I've studied
with some of the finest piping teachers and pipers in the world: Pipe
Majors Ed Krintz, Sandy Jones, John MacFadyen, Joyce MacFarlane, Duncan
Johnstone, Alasdair Gillies, Ian Whitelaw, Ken Sutherland, Jack Lee and Iain Watson.
I
often play Amazing Grace, and Scotland the Brave, because they're loved, familiar and beautiful. I also play the lovely 'Scotsaire Hornpipe,' and 6/8 Marches such as
Seamus MacNeill and Cameron MacFadyen, as well as Hornpipes, Jigs
and Reels, and occasionally an urlar from a Piobaireachd. Given enough
time to learn a piece of music, I also take requests.
Piping For You in the Following Cities and Places:
East
Bay, Moraga, Oakland, Montclair Village, Stanford University, San Jose,
San Francisco, Sacramento, Middletown, Calistoga, Healdsburg, Atherton,
Berkeley, Contra Costa, Corte Madera, Emeryville, Fremont, Citrus
Heights, Concord, Elk Grove, Hayward, Hillsborough, Larkspur, Marin,
Piedmont, Daly City, Fairfield, Pleasant Hills, Richmond, Antioch, San
Mateo, Vacaville, Livermore, Redwood City, Alameda, Napa, Mountain
View, Rancho Cordova, Union City, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek, Milpitas,
Davis, South San Francisco, Pittsburg, Palo Alto, San Rafael, Petaluma,
Santa Cruz, Cupertino, Novato, Watsonville, San Ramon, Gilroy, Newark,
Danville, Rohnert Park, San Bruno, Pacifica, Campbell, Martinez,
Dublin, Morgan Hill, Oakley, Pleasant Hill, Brentwood, Menlo Park, San
Pablo, Saratoga, Monterey, Foster City, Los Gatos, Burlingame, Los
Altos, San Carlos, Benicia, Belmont, Lafayette, El Cerrito, Millbrae,
Hercules, Pinole, Orinda, Albany, Pacific Grove, Mill Valley, San
Anselmo, Half Moon Bay, Salinas, Santa Rosa, Scotts Valley, San
Leandro, Santa Clara, Sausalito, Solano, Sonoma, Stockton, Sunnyvale,
Tiburon, Vallejo, Woodside, Fairfax,
Sebastapol, Marin City, Bodega Bay, Carmel, Pacific
Grove, Big Sur, Yosemite