Bagpiping Services - Portland Oregon and Beyond

 Grace your wedding with a highly-skilled, professional bagpiper.   

Weddings are so special to me, having been married for over 25 years.  I know I'm doing something right when I played for a young couple's wedding, and I was the bagpiper at their parent's wedding.

Whether your ceremony occurs inside a chapel, church, or historic building, or outside in the mountains, by a lake or a rushing river, the Great Highland Bagpipes add timeless beauty to any wedding ceremony.  

Bagpiper Bill performs for over 25 weddings annually throughout Oregon and surrounding states each year.  

Call him anytime; Bill would love to talk to you about your upcoming wedding and to help you arrange music for your guest arrivals, ceremony processional, unity candle/ reflective moment, recessional, leading guests from ceremony to cocktail hour music,  entrance into the reception music, or for any combination of the above.   

Add the bagpipes for a special birthday SURPRISE, as the piper starts in the distance, walking towards and ending at the birthday person. Bagpiper Bill will march in as a surprise, performing for the honored person a selection of favorite songs (from Irish Eyes Are Smiling and Scotland-the-Brave, to Amazing Grace) before playing Happy Birthday on the bagpipes where all join in singing with the pipes! 

Grace your family's service with skilled bagpiping at an affordable price. Bagpiper Bill can help you add a selection of beautiful tunes to your funeral service. With over 50 funeral services annually throughout Oregon and surrounding states, Bill adds a soulful beauty to any service.  

 
Bagpiper Bill, for example, can pipe as mourners gather for the funeral, lead the procession to the place of service, lead bearers into the place of service, or pipe a lament after the final words of committal.

 
Bill performed at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia as a solo piper for a Marine Corps sergeant killed in Afghanistan; the family flew him to Washington, DC, to perform after full military honors. Recently, Bill piped at a celebration of life event in Issaquah, Washington, for a US Reservist fighting in Ukraine.

Bagpipe tunes can be selected from a wide variety - such as Highland or Lowland Scots songs or melodies with military or geographic associations. Irish tunes are also played with the Highland Bagpipe. 

 
Popular tunes include Amazing Grace, Skye Boat Song, and Flower of Scotland- Scotland's National Anthem. Traditional laments include Flowers of the Forest or Lochaber No More. Gaelic airs include The Mist Covered Mountains and Going Home. Irish melodies include Danny Boy, Fields of Athenry, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, and The Galway Shawl.

 
Rest assured that you are in good hands. Whether in a church, a cemetery service, a formal Military service, or a scattering of the ashes, Bill's pipes will add a soul-lifting and profoundly emotional ambiance to your family's service. 

Bagpiper Bill will bring an element of surprise to your guests or even a tear to their eyes. He is sure to make your day extra special and one not to be forgotten.  Bill has a range of different colored kilts and Scottish regalia that he can wear to your event.  Also, there will be no shortage of tunes for your event as Bill has a repertoire of over 3000 tunes, so there will surely be music that fits your needs. He is also more than willing to work with last-minute requests.

Add the sound of the bagpipes to your event and make the day a great day to remember.  Bagpiper Bill performs at a wide range of festivals to private, intimate ceremonies.  Bill is creative and instantly adaptable to the needs of his clients, guaranteeing the event's success.  He loves to perform, and any event becomes alive with his melodic and dynamic music. 

 Bagpiper Bill performs for schools in his continued commitment to helping culturally educate the next generation about Scotland and Ireland.  Having lived as a boy in Scotland, Bill entertains children with a fantastic video show called  "A Wee Trip to the Old Country - Our Beloved Scotland " while performing on his soothing, electronic bagpipes in the background.  He gets the children dancing and marching to the Great Highland Bagpipes afterward - they love it ! 

Add the sterling harmonic sound of "The Great Highland Bagpipes" to your event to make it Amazing !