Ron - Have Pipes Will Travel Bagpiper from Madera, CA

Bagpiper Ron - Have Pipes, Will Travel is a lifelong Professional Musician, Performer, & Entertainer. P.M./E. of The Stag & Thistle Pipe Band. Retired Music Director of McLane High School. I have played for many weddings, funerals, military events, with satisfied clients from Scotland to Monterey, Ca. I can provide the proper Celtic Spirit for your event. My resume also includes a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance, 1976 from Fresno Pacific University and 34 years as a Music Educator in Ca. Public schools. Let me help you make your Highland dream become a reality. Be sure when listening to the samples of any performer, you notice the intonation of the pipes. Bagpipes have a bad rap because of poor tuning. When the chanter is locked in with all three drones, a beautiful hum is created. "This background "humming" is what characterises the instrument and remains steady and continuous as the pipes are being played. Many assert that the humming is what attracts aficionados to the instrument." This is a part of the mystery that is bagpipes.. An outdoor event requires the majesty of The Great Pipes. If you have an indoor, more intimate event/ setting, consider my softer, sweet sounding, cold wind, bellows blown, Scottish Small Pipes that are approved for events in the national parks where there may be DB restrictions. Have a peek at my extensive song list. Chances are you will find something that will be appropriate for your event. I treat every performance with the utmost care, as if it were an event for my own family. Bagpiper Ron - Have Pipes, Will Travel, will be delighted to discuss an appearance at your next occasion that will leave a truly lasting impression. This is the simple formula for your Celtic vision of your special event. Quotes of Note **He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing...( English Proverb ) **"“To the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning and seven generations before. At the end of his seven years, one born to it will stand at the start of knowledge, and lending a fond ear to the drone, he may have parley with old folks of old affairs.” (Neil Munro-“The lost Piobaireachd”). **Ancient Celts knew... that of all the sounds that mankind could make... only the pipes... could be heard in both worlds.

• Wee Totum Fogg | Willie Allen
• The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow | traditional Scottish 1513
• Johnie Cock up Your Beaver | Scotch Tune 1686
• Steam Train to Mallaig | Mary-Ann MacKinnon
• Pachelbel Canon in D | Johann Pachelbel
• Tam Bein's Lum | D.S. Ramsey
• The Sands of Kuwait | LCpl Gordon MacKenzie
• Duncan Johnstone- hornpipe | Donald Macleod
• On the Wings of a Snow White Dove | Ferlin Huskey
• Suo Gan | Welsh Lullaby
• How Great Thou Art | Carl G. Boberg and R.J. Hughes
• Greensleeves | Richard Jones
• Danny Boy | Frederic Weatherly
• Mull of Kintyre | McCartney
• Simple Gifts | Joseph Brackett, Jr.
• If You Want My Body | Rod Stewart
• Gilligan's Island | Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle
• Ye Banks "n Braes O Bonny Doon | Charles Miller/ Robert Burns
• Flower of Scotland | Roy Williamson/ The Corries
• Mauri's Wedding | J. R. Bannerman
• Murdo's Wedding | Pipe Major Gavin Stoddart
• The Battle's O'er | William Robb
• The Green Hills of Tyrol | melody by Rossini
• Military Themes ( Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard ) | traditional
• Scotland the Brave | Cliff Hanley
• Wearin'O'the Green | Irish street ballad
• Caubeen Trimmed in Blue | traditional Irish
• Highland Laddie | traditional
• Road to the Isles | traditional
• Gary Owens | traditional Irish
• Kilworth Hills | traditional Irish
• Maids of Mourne Shore | traditional Irish
• Leaving of Liverpool | traditional Irish
• Minstral Boy | traditional Irish
• The Rakes of Mallow | traditional Irish
• Spancil Hill | traditional Irish
• Raglin Road | traditional Irish
• She Moved Through the Fair | traditional Irish
• Paddy's Leather Breeches | traditional Irish
• The Ass in the Graveyard | traditional Irish
• Paddy McGinty's Goat | traditional Irish
• Danny Boy | traditional Irish
• Steamboat | traditional Irish
• Ye Banks and Braes | traditional Irish
• Black Bear | traditional Irish
• Stumpie | traditional
• Susan McLeod | traditional
• Rowen Tree | traditional
• Skye Boat | traditional
• Cockney Jocks | traditional
• Glasgow Police Pipers | traditional
• Edinburgh Tatoo | traditional
• Bessie McIntire | traditional
• Auld Lang Syne | traditional
• Amazing Grace | John Newton
• No Awa Tae Bide Awa | traditional
• The Old Rustic Bridge | traditional
• Balmoral | traditional
• Morag of Dunvegen | traditional
• Wings | traditional
• Flet from Flotta | traditional
• The Battle of the Somme | traditional
• The Argyles Crossing the River Po | traditional
• The Gael | traditional
• Bugle Horn | traditional
• Bonnie Dundee | traditional
• The Mucking of Geordies Byre | traditional
• Oft in the Stilly Night | traditional
• Barren Rocks | traditional
• Cock 'O' the North | traditional
• High Road to Gairlock | traditional
• Orange and Blue | traditional
• Miss Ada Crawford | traditional
• The Devil in the Kitchen | traditional
• Farewell to Camraw | traditional
• Itchy Fingers | traditional
• Atholl Highlanders | traditional
• The Battle of Waterloo | traditional
• Cabar Feidh | traditional
• Walter Douglas | traditional
• The Men of the West | traditional
• Pipe Major Donald McLean of Lewis | traditional
• Heights of Dargai | traditional
• Archie McKinley | traditional
• Hecter the Hero | traditional
• The Dark Isle | traditional
• Lord Lovat's Lament | traditional
• Lochabar No More | traditional
• Mist Covered Mountains | traditional
• The Old Hag at the Churn | traditional
• Rockin' the Baby | traditional
• Troy's Wedding | traditional
• The Gold Ring | traditional Irish
• Hamilton's Nutsack | traditional
• Trumpet Voluntary | Clark
• Roast Beef of Old England | traditional
• Sandy's New Chanter | traditional
• Love Devine | Hymn
• Here Comes the Bride | traditional
• Highland Cathedral | traditional
• Highland Wedding | wedding traditional
• When Irish Eyes are Smiling | traditional