Seattle's Bagpiper Neil Hubbard Bagpiper from Bellevue, WA

Gigmasters' Most Experienced and only full-time professional Seattle Bagpiper! Best of Gigmasters Award Winner 2012 - 2025. Contact Neil today to book your event. Seattle's Bagpiper Neil Hubbard is professional, reliable, responsive to your needs, priced fairly, talented, well established, prepared, communicates well, easy to work with, always impeccably dressed. Visit Neil's website neilbagpiper.com for more detailed information. Rest assured Neil will go above and beyond to give you an excellent performance and great value for your money! Providing high quality Scottish bagpiping performances in the Greater Seattle, Washington area since 1990, Neil has enhanced weddings, brought a high level of traditional honor to funerals and memorials, entertained at birthday parties, and added pomp and ceremony to many other events. Neil lives in Bellevue, Washington and will travel any distance to play at your event. He is the only full-time professional piper referred by Gigmasters for the Seattle area. All the others do it part-time around their other jobs. Neil has been the Resident Bagpiper at the Golf Club At Newcastle since 2004, piping the sun down from May through September. Neil also teaches Seattle Firefighters, Seattle Police, King County, and Snohomish County Firefighters Pipes and Drums. In association with these bands Neil can provide a quartet, mini band, or massed pipes and drums. Contact Neil today for a special rate. The majestic sound of the Great Highland Bagpipe has been used for centuries to welcome royalty, mourn the dearly departed, celebrate weddings, inspire warriors, and bring distinction to virtually any other event. This awesome and powerful instrument adds emotional impact to any occasion, and a piper always provides a striking visual focal point. As a competitive solo piper, Neil perfected his musical skills, and piping judges have consistently praised him for his "lovely, expressive playing", "great sounding pipe," and "excellent tone and tuning". Neil is a successful solo piping competitor, having played on the boards in Scotland, Canada, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. As a long-time member of the Keith Highlanders Pipe Band, Neil has competed multiple times at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. Playing in this grueling, high pressure contest has honed Neil's confidence as a performer. Neil has performed at many more diverse celebrations including Carnaval in Mazatlan, Mexico, Fourth of July in Ketchikan, Alaska, and the week-long 1000th Anniversary of Clan Keith in Inverurie, Scotland. Neil has made many television appearances and has been featured as a soloist in the Keith's annual Kirkland Performance Center shows since 1998.

• Scotland the Brave
• Amazing Grace
• When the Battle's Over
• Green Hills of Tyrol
• Abide With Me
• Auld Lang Syne
• Irish Eyes
• Danny Boy
• Lament for the Fallen
• Cork Hill
• Drops of Brandy
• Donald, Willie & His Dog
• Eilean Phrihonsa
• Flett from Flotta
• Garry Owen
• St. Patrick's Day
• Flower of Scotland
• Flowers of the Forest
• Gravel Walk
• Highland Cathedral
• From Scotland With Love
• Intercontinental Gathering
• Rocking the Baby
• Rakes of Mallow
• Lament for Mary MacLeod
• Ave Maria
• Marine Corps Hymn
• Caissons
• Anchors Aweigh
• Air Force
• Semper Paratus-Coast Guard
• America the Beautiful
• Shenandoah
• The Foxhunter
• Many Christmas songs
• many, many, more