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Upcoming Appearances
- Saturday, March 13, 2010
- 1:00PM - Wedding
- Lemont, IL
- Saturday, May 01, 2010
- 9:00AM - Bay de Noc Community College
- Escanaba, MI
- Saturday, May 29, 2010
- 2:00PM - Wedding Ceremony
- Traverse City, MI
= Booked through GigMasters
Past Appearances
- Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- 11:00AM - Veterans' Facility
- Saturday, October 10, 2009
- 3:00PM - Mission Point
- Mackinac Island, MI
- Saturday, September 26, 2009
- 2:00PM - Wedding
- Menominee, MI
- Saturday, September 12, 2009
- 2:00PM - Little Stone Church and Mission Point
- Mackinac Island, MI
- Saturday, September 12, 2009
- 5:30PM - O'Hickey's Tipp of the Mitt
- Carp Lake, MI
- Saturday, September 05, 2009
- 7:30AM - Harbor Springs Highland Fling
- Harbor Springs, MI
- Saturday, August 29, 2009
- 3:30PM - Riviera Resort
- Prudenville, MI
- Saturday, August 01, 2009
- 8:00AM - Ishpeming Ren Fest
- Ishpeming, MI
- Saturday, July 18, 2009
- 2:30PM - Wedding
- Mackinac Island, MI
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
- 7:00PM - Walloon Lake Country Club
- Walloon Lake, MI
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- Location:
- Mackinac Island, Michigan
- Travel Radius:
- Will travel up to 3000 miles from Mackinac Island.
- Pay Range:
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$250-$750 per event
- Member Since:
- 2006
- Primary Category:
- Celtic Bagpipes
- Additional Categories:
- Bagpipes
- Influences:
- Walter S. Rose, John MacFadyen, John Goodenow, Lars Sloan, Dave Martin, Bruce Burt, Frank Edgley, Syd Girling, The Chieftains, Roddy MacLeod, MBE
Description
Specializing in Northern Michigan 'Destination Weddings'. Well-known and highly respected by other wedding professionals and vendors on Mackinac Island, and in Petoskey, Charlevoix, Traverse City and other popular venues around Michigan.
40 years' experience. Skillfully intergrating bagpipe music into wedding ceremonies, memorial services, concerts, and just about any setting imaginable. Full-time professional. Always prompt, punctual, and absolutely in-tune. Providing an all-around excellent musical experience.
Different pitch varieties (A-440, Bb-466, and standard Bb-470+) allow accompaniment of virtually any other kind of instrument.
Recent engagements include several performances with The Chieftains, and performances of Maxwell Davies' "An Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise" with both the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the West Shore Symphony Orchestra.
I have performed at all of the following venues, and more: on Mackinac Island: Inn at Stonecliffe, Grand Hotel, Mission Point, St. Anne's, Somewhere In Time Gazebo, Patrick Sinclair's Pub, The Harbourview Inn, The Island House, the Stone Church, the Mission Chapel, and the Murray Hotel; In the Petoskey Area: Perry Hotel, St. Francis Xavier Church, Bay Harbor Yacht Club, Little Harbor Club, Vivace School of Arts and Music, Stafford's Bayview Inn, Charlevoix's Castle Farms, and on the deck of the Lalapalooza in Round Lake for the Venetian Festival; Treetops Golf and Country Club and the Gaylord Country Club near Gaylord; Grosse Pointe Yacht Club in Grosse Pointe, Greystone Golf and Country Club in Romeo, and the Roostertail, Detroit. Other venues include Alpena, Ossineke, Houghton Lake, Lake Leelanau, Leland, Northport, Central Lake, St. Ignace, Traverse City, Omena, Walloon Lake, Paradise Lake and more.
I also frequently play for funerals and memorial services regularly throughout Northern Michigan and Northern Wisconsin
Song List
- Highland Wedding
- Mairi's Wedding
- Scotland the Brave
- The Black Bear
- The Jig of Slurs
- The Curlew
- Highland Cathedral
- Green Hills of Tyrol
- Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
- The Mason's Apron
- Brian Boru's March
- Hugh Travers' Reel
- ...and hundreds more
Available For:
Anniversaries, Awards Nights, Banquets, Birthday Parties, Children's Birthday Parties, Casinos, Celebrations, Christenings, Christmas Parties, Church Services, Coffee Shops, Community Events, Conventions, Corporate Functions, Country Clubs, Cruise Ships, Dinner Dances, Festivals, Funerals, Graduation Parties, Grand Openings, Hotels, Jingles, Movie Soundtracks, Picnic, Private Parties, Resorts, Restaurants, Reunions, Showers, Studio Session, TV Soundtracks, Weddings
Feedback
- He was great...very easy to work with and made our wedding extra special! I would recommend him in a heartbeat. Thank you! -- Anne F, Suttons Bay, MI, 8/23/2008