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Playing
beautiful, haunting melodies that stir the soul and rousing dance tunes
that can bring an audience to their feet, Bert Blue has recorded pipes for film,
theatre, radio and television. He
has played for All-Scotland Highland Dance Champions; HRH Prince Andrew, Duke
of York; on tour with The Chieftains and as Pipe Major of Snoopy's Own Pipe Band.
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Blue began learning
to play the Great Highland Bagpipes at six from his father, Pipe Major David M. Blue, a gold
medallist, and later from the world famous Pipe Major Donald Shaw Ramsay, BEM (late of
the 10th Battalion Highland Light Infantry, the back-to-back world champion City of
Edinburgh Police Pipe Band and the world renowned InverGordon Distillery Pipe Band).
He appears in concert at music and folk festivals
and in clubs all across America singing as well as playing Celtic-style guitar
and other instruments. As an entertainer, he brings the pulse-quickening music
of the Scottish bagpipes to the stage as no other; beyond the difficult and
complex fingering is the brilliant phrasing and the phenomenal expression and
emotion that can only be heard from true masters of piping.
Blue's virtuoso playing crosses a broad spectrum- whether
as Pipe Major of Snoopy's Own Pipe Band, or for alternative music dedicates such as heavy metal's
"Long Way to the Top," or simply playing old sentimental favourites such as "Scotland the Brave," and
the perennial "Amazing Grace," he brings the energy and vitality of this ancient
instrument to life.
Bert Blue has not only appeared on tour with The Chieftains
in concert and television, he piped for HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and for many British Navy ships,including HMS
Fearless and HMS Londonderry sailing home from the Falklands; for Libus Montgomery,
seven-time All-Scotland Highland dance champion and former Miss Scotland; Jacques Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso.
He also composed and performed the music which welcomed Evelyn Glennie, OBE,
to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Honours Gala.
He has piped also for Paramount Motion Pictures,
Universal Studios, Bally's/New Paris on the Strip in Las Vegas, in Bourbon Street pubs in the historic
French Quarter of New Orleans, for Macy's, and as a representative for many fine Highland Whiskys.
Blue also performs for numerous charitable groups including the American Cancer Society, Roots of
Peace and The Nature Conservancy; and has piped in noted memorials for the Fallen of September 11th and for many of those killed in the war in Iraq.
For more information, call
(707) 527-9653
or write to
Pipe Major Albert Insley Blue
c/o 1225 Elkhorn, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
or... send e-mail to: Pipie@ScotsPiper.com
The links below are to groups or people with whom I share activities or interest;
I receive nothing for these links nor do I profit from the groups or people themselves.
I encourage you to open any of the links below (a new window will appear),
you may find a new artist, a local pub or a group doing work you might wish to share.
Thanks, Bert Blue
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