St. Patrick's Day weekend schedule

I'm piping at a ton of bars and restaurants this Friday and Saturday- come celebrate the holiday with me and hear some live bagpipes!

Here's where and (roughly) when I'll be performing publicly:

Friday:

• 9:00 am - Renner's Bar & Grill
• Noon - Renner's
• 4:00 pm - Renner's
• 5:00 pm - McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
• 5:30 pm - McMenamins Bottle Shop
• 6:00 pm - McMenamins St. John's Theatre
• 6:30 pm - McMenamins White Eagle
• 7:00 pm - McMenamins Chapel Bar
• 7:30 pm - McMenamins Kennedy School
• 8:15 pm - McMenamins Edgefield
• 9:00 pm until late - Renner's

Saturday:

• 5:30 - McMenamins Kennedy School
• 6:30 to 7:30 - McMenamins Edgefield

McMenamins Halfway to St. Pat's Celebration

While most people don't celebrate the "halfway" point to holidays, McMenamins certainly does!

The well-known restaurant chain and I will be doing our best to give you one more excuse to drink this Saturday, September 17th. Here are the locations I'll be piping through:

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• Crystal Ballroom
• 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop
• St. John's
• White Eagle
• Chapel Pub
• Kennedy School (my old stomping ground)
• and last but certainly not least, Edgefield (my old, OLD stomping ground).
  
  There'll also be traditional Celtic music played throughout the day to tie you over until I get there. Come find me! 

Oregon Piper + David Douglas Football = Awesome

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It's football season, and I'm piping at every David Douglas home game this season!

This is fitting as they are the David Douglas "Scots", and ironic because my (sort of) alma mater was Monmouth College, and their mascot? The Scots. 

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There we were in all of glory circa 2002. I'm off to the right...just out of shot, of course...

In short, I and several other pipers and drummers were essentially the mascots of the school, and piped at every football game, volleyball game, swim meet, and sometimes even...frat parties! It was an incredibly small, mid-western private college in an even smaller town surrounded by corn in rural Illinois, and they loved their division 3 sports. If you think people go nuts about OSU and UO over here (which are division 1, and UO was my second school), I can tell you from experience that the excitement over our little D3 team at Monmouth was absolutely on par. 

Come see me and the team at any of the following home games (all of which start at 7pm):

1. This Friday, September 16th
2. Next Friday, September 23rd
3. October 7th
4. October 21st

Tickets are extremely nominally priced. Hope to see you there!

Oregon Piper on Tour in SW America

It's that time of year again! I'll be out of town for about the next month on tour so if you find yourself getting married or dying anytime soon please contact one of my bagpiping associates:

• Dan Delmain | portlandbagpiper.com
   
• Travis Nelson | travydn@gmail.com

Specifically, I'll be gone from about 10/20 to 11/22 and I'll be headed to:

• Las Crucas, NM
• Farmington, NM
• Socorro, NM
• Alamogordo, NM
• Santa Fe (<< let's open up a restaurant here!)
• Midland, TX
• Houston
• San Antonio
• Tyler, TX
• Lafayette, TX
• Irving, TX

Also by the time I get back Fallout 4 will be out so in all honesty I won't be available for life/leaving the apartment until about January 2016. Just kidding. But seriously.