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23 03, 2025

Make Your Wedding Unforgettable with a Professional Wedding Bagpiper in Edinburgh

By |March 23rd, 2025|Roddy the Piper|0 Comments

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 [...]

21 06, 2024

Celebrating Taylor Swift’s Arrival in Scotland: Bagpipe Rendition by Roddy the Piper & Reel Time Pipe Band

By |June 21st, 2024|Roddy the Piper|0 Comments

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 [...]

28 02, 2020

Roddy’s Scottish Bagpipe Rock Band Tartanium

By |February 28th, 2020|Uncategorised|0 Comments

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 [...]

25 10, 2019

Bagpiping at a Wedding in the Philippines

By |October 25th, 2019|Uncategorised|0 Comments

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 [...]

29 06, 2017

VIP Bagpiper: Who has the Bagpipe X Factor?

By |June 29th, 2017|Uncategorised|0 Comments

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 [...]

19 05, 2017

Ferrari Owners Club 50th Anniversary Celebration in Edinburgh

By |May 19th, 2017|Uncategorised|0 Comments

So everyone wants to be a Ferarri owner.  When you hear that the Ferrari Owners Club is having a wee event to celebrate their 50th anniversary, you just have to be there.  You are even keener when they then mention they are bringing along a few cars, and Greypaul are putting some of their excellent [...]