What an honour it is to receive the TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award for my Bagpipe Masterclass. Thanks to the incredible feedback from guests, the experience has been placed among the top 10% of attractions worldwide, something I’m truly humbled by. My Bagpipe Masterclass offers guests [...]
Hire a Bagpiper! Your wedding day deserves the very best. Whether you’re planning a Royal Mile procession, a City Chambers ceremony, or a reception at the Virgin Hotel Edinburgh, hiring a professional bagpiper will make your celebration extraordinary. The Magic of a Royal Mile Procession A wedding procession down Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile with a [...]
Roddy and the 11-piece band embraced the event with enthusiasm and creativity, donning Era-fied kilts that featured dazzling blue sequin panels. This stylish attire added a vibrant visual element to their already impressive musical performance. Combining traditional Scottish kilts with modern, sparkling details perfectly symbolized the fusion of contemporary pop music with classical Scottish sounds. The [...]
To bring together quite a lot of new videos that I have made over the last few weeks, we decided to make a blog post!! It's amazing how much traction and views these have been getting on Facebook, so thought you might like to have a watch of them here. Thanks very much to [...]
As well as performing my solo Bagpiping duties for weddings, corporate events, Burns nights, and more, I have a few Scottish bands that I perform with at events all over Scotland and the world. One of these is Tartanium, a Scottish Rock Band I created with the intention of wowing [...]
International Bagpiper heads to the Philippines for a Wedding Only a couple of weeks ago, I was performing International Bagpiping duties in Las Vegas, working with Visit Scotland for one of the worlds largest events shows, IMEX. This time, I am flying East, back to the Philippines for the third event in [...]
The Travels of International Bagpiper Roddy the Piper continue, this time to Las Vegas, Nevada. The first thing you notice stepping off the plane is how hot and heavy the air is. Then you realise how crisp the air in Scotland is. That’s always nice to come back to. I’ve landed in Las Vegas [...]
Robert Burns celebrations The Burns Bagpiper. To celebrate our Nations Bard, Rabbie Burns, Roddy was asked to do a number of Burns Nights. The start of the 12 day tour started with an Oil and gas giant who put on a fantastic traditional burns supper at the AECC in Aberdeen. With immortal memory, addres [...]
VIP bagpiper. X Factor was back in Edinburgh, as part of their UK wide talent competition. Of course when in Scotland, you need to have some bagpipes. But they didn't just want a bagpiper, they wanted to play (maybe not to professional standards!!) Roddy was assigned to it. The idea was to [...]
With so many wedding venues to choose from, I thought I would publish a wee story from the best place I get to visit to provide my wedding bagpiping service. So, ever thought of getting married on an island? This week I have had the pleasure of piping at a fantastic wedding in the middle [...]
