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Like many pipers, I began on highland pipes, but I quickly found uilleann piping to be more my style. I was interested in playing with other instruments, especially the fiddle, and uilleann piping made that possible. It brought me to New York, where I apprenticed with uilleann pipemaker Seth Gallagher in Cold Spring for three years. I enjoyed my time there and took many opportunities to ride the train down to visit the New York City Irish scene.

Shortly after finishing my apprenticeship, I took a brief trip to Cape Breton Island which forever changed both my playing and pipe making plans. While there, I met Ellen MacPhee, a wonderful Scottish Smallpiper and Border Piper from Prince Edward Island. She taught me about the music of Cape Breton Island and the emerging role that Smallpipes and Border Pipes are playing in the island's musical traditions. I put away my uilleann pipes then, discovered strathspeys really for the first time, and have been playing a majority of my music from Cape Breton Island.

I now live in beautiful Rockaway Beach, New York, and focus my pipemaking on quality Scottish Smallpipes and Border pipes, attempting to bridge the musical gap between bagpipers and fiddlers.

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