Happy New Year to All

This is the last day of 2009, a great year for Smallpiping and Border Piping.  Here's to hoping 2010 will be even better.

Here's a few links to some great events I'll be attending (or trying to anyway) in 2010:


Golden Festival - My very favorite non bagpipe (well, actually there will be bagpipes!) event of each year.


Upper Potomac Piper's Weekend - ( I won't be able to attend this one, but you should!)


Celtfest Cuba! - I'm going to try really hard to make it to Cuba!   Yes, there is celtic-ness in Cuba!


Maine Pipes and Fiddle - The best two events of the year, of course.

http://www.peifiddlecamp.com/ - I'm really looking forward to this one.  The first Prince Edward Island Fiddle Camp.  But not just fiddles.  Smallpipes will be represented, including a few loaner sets made by yours truly.  Ward MacDonald, of Maine Pipes and Fiddle fame is running this glorious monstrosity.  I can't wait.
No link for it, but the Vermont Bellowspipe school is always a treat.

And of course:

Piper's Gathering

In addition to all these things, I will be slowly plodding through tunes to put together a tunebook.  And of course, 2010 should have the Elbowmusic Workshop producing a record breaking amount of Smallpipes and Border Pipes!  And maybe a third type of bagpipe . . . .

See you in 2010.

Nate