I have been playing the bagpipes since 2002. From early childhood I have been fascinated with my Scottish heritage, folkways, and music. I have played with the Doonaree Pipe Band, the Chicago Stock Yard Kilty Band, and the Baltimore City Pipe Band. I have also competed solo in both light music and the traditional piobaireachd. I regularly play at weddings, parties, rallies, funerals, and other (outdoor) events. If you are interested in having a bagpiper, contact me!
I am also a long-time member of the Clan MacLaren Society. Creag an Tuirc!
"The ships sail off over the sleepless waters, and come not back again to us who haunt the wharves. Ringing their passing bells, the hours go forward, like sheeted ghosts, bearing with them so many dreams unfinished, so many loves untold. And what they take into their keeping they hold for ever. And if men ask you why you linger by crumbling houses, and tangled gardens, seeking again to hear old broken phrases of half- remembered tunes and why you people the mists with presences out of dreams you tell them, " Because the past is dear. Because, in days that are dead, true hearts beat close to ours. Because the faith that life has not a broken finish, but that God's love is the h'nal shelter of the soul divine, is our strength : and we wait, with memory bringing back old joys along the way of pain." --Lauchlan MacLean Watt "At the bottom of us, really “deep down,” there is, of course, something unteachable, some granite of spiritual fatum of predetermined decision and answer to predetermined selected questions. Whenever a cardinal problem is at stake, there speaks an unchangeable 'this is I.'” --Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil