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Thank you for visiting my site. If you have been combing the internet for a bagpiper in the Columbus and Central Ohio Area, CONGRATULATIONS! You have found a bagpiper living in, and serving the Columbus community!
I grew up in Grandview, a beautiful little suburb of Columbus, and I'm proud to be a long time resident of the Columbus and Central Ohio area. I have recently made Canal Winchester my home. It has a kind of Mayberry RFD feel to it,and though it is a bit laid back, I want you to know that I am professional, polished, and capable of playing the bagpipes to your highest standards. Feel free to browse all of the photographs and music files you will find in my Gallery and Music pages. Also, don't be shy about asking for references.
Remember the first time you heard them? I'm sure you do. You may have heard them echoing off Columbus' downtown walls on Saint Patrick's Day, parading past in a sea of multicolored tartans. Perhaps it was a wedding, or the funeral of a close friend, and you have never forgotten those haunting melodies played on ancient mystical instruments.
My purpose here is to keep that bagpiping tradition alive, while serving Columbus Ohio and surrounding Communities. Whatever the reason you find yourself at my webpage, I look forward to being your personal Scottish Highland Bagpiper.
I began playing music professionally in 1963. It has taken me from the heartland of Ohio to the California Coast and back again. In that time I have played a lot of music on a myriad of instruments, but no instrument has had as strong an impact on my life as the Great Highland Bagpipes. There is a spiritual side to playing the bagpipes that drives me to continue playing them,(even though at times it seems that they are playing me.)
When I stand on a hill, playing the bagpipes with the wind to my face, it is as though my ancestors are right there with me, nudging me, inspiring me to push further, to play more, and to be the best bagpiper I can be. Suffice it to say, I will be a bagpiper until the day I am put in the ground and another piper ultimately pipes me home. |