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Steve
has been a piper for over 27 years and has played in many varied and interesting
locations throughout the world. His experience gathered during this time puts
him in a position of being able to adapt to any job, or location and still
provide a professional show.
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Born
& bred in Northern
Ireland,
he began learning piano from an early age and has been doing music ever since. Steve
began learning the pipes in a local pipe band where his musical background soon
put him in a position of taking over as pipe major.
Ø He also plays the flute and trumpet and recently took up the bassoon. Steve attended University of Ulster and graduated with a 2:1 Hons Degree in Music specialising in the piano.
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He
now works as a professional musician in London but in his spare time plays with The Pride of
Murray, a Hounslow based Grade 3 competition
band, and is Pipe Sergeant of the Halton Voluntary Pipes and Drums, a Grade
4 Band based near Aylesbury.
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His
solo pipe playing has taken him to Hungary, Washington, Atlanta, Tunisia, Egypt,
Norway, Ascension Islands, Germany, France and Latvia to play for dinners in
Embassy’s and at special ceremonies like the unveiling of the new Hercules
C-130J aircraft or a countries bi-centennial celebrations in Tunisia.
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Steve has piped for weddings, birthdays,
Christmas & children’s parties, corporate dinners & events, funerals,
and many others up and down the country, not forgetting Burns Suppers and New
Years Eve.
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He
has also had the fortune to perform at 2 Edinburgh Military Tattoos, The Royal
Tournament, on Horse Guards Parade, in front of
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His
repertoire is wide and varied from the traditional Scottish to (as his name
would suggest) the traditional Irish.
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Steve
has three different tartans and two styles of uniform to fit any occasion.
Murray of Atholl, Douglas and the new RAF tartan in both full highland regalia
and day dress.
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Distance
is not too great a problem (within reason) but as the saying goes “If I
can’t do it, then I almost certainly know a man who can”.
Or
e-mail me at
dronesandtones@tiscali.co.uk
