No more do pipers hibernate like bears in the winter months of the eastern USA. As winter wanes and spring waxes anew, there are a slew of opportunities to warm the ears with great live bagpiping, warm the fingers and start off your 2013 competition season, or warm your brain with workshops and lessons. Here is a cool sampling of events that should attract pipers at any level, enthusiast spectators, competitors, or learners.
Where do you want to go with your bagpiping?
Have you ever asked yourself this? It’s a fair question and one that might make you uncomfortable to think about. We tend to be stuck in the present when it comes to piping. Cramming on tunes, hammering your repertoire, all keep us focussed on what we might be doing at any giving moment. But where is it all taking you? How much better do you want to be? Progress, potential success, and the unknown future itself can be scary things. A lot of us just “go through the motions” in quite a bit in our lives and playing bagpipes can sometimes be no different. You might be just starting out and only have a few tunes under your belt or you might be far along as a player with some piping “chops” to show for it. But the answer to this question is the key to moving forward as a musician and as a bagpiper. The important thing though is that you answer the question honestly and not be afraid of what that answer might be.
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