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DAVID LANIGAN has been playing various types of bagpipes (Highland pipes, Scottish
smallpipes, shuttle pipes, Lowland pipes, and electronic pipes) for 19 years and has been
influenced by the piping styles of Highland and Lowland Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, Galicia,
and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He also plays a dulcitar (a hybrid of Irish
bouzouki and mountain dulcimer), and several whistles.
He has performed solo and in bands throughout the Pacific Northwest
at concerts, coffeehouses, festivals, Highland games, weddings and
receptions, and other public and private events.
A veteran of piping schools in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, British Columbia
and Scotland, David has studied with many of the world's top pipers.
In 1996, he traveled to the Scottish Hebrides island of South Uist and took
part in the first annual Cẹlas school, a reintegration of the music
(piping, fiddling, singing) and step dances of the Gaelic peoples of
Scotland. Cẹlas also affirmed links between Scotland and Cape Breton.
David is a former Pipe Major of the Desert Thistle Pipe Band, of which he is
still an active member.
In January, 2001, several of David's compositions and arrangements were
published in "The Gathering of the Clans Collection, Volume 2".
David and his wife Brooke live down by the river in Pasco, WA. They share
their house with their dogs Tipper ("The most excellent frisbee hound"), Bandit
- a.k.a the debonair Mr. B ("He can't control his licker."), and Jack ("Captain
Jack - Arrrrr"). |
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