New York bagpiper Richmond Johnston plays for weddings, funerals & memorials, and other special events in the Hudson Valley and NYC. A competition piper and piping instructor, Richmond pipes ceremonies and celebrations from Manhattan to Saratoga Springs. Your NY piper has hundreds of performances to his credit, playing Highland Pipes, Border Pipes, Scottish Smallpipes, Bulgarian Pipes, Bombarde and Pennywhistle. He’s performed onstage several times with famed Irish musical group The Chieftains, and is a member of several bands, regularly playing with Catamount Pipe Band and Bagad New York, the only Breton Bagad in the United States. Richmond is a board member and summer program instructor for the Balmoral School of Piping and Drumming in Pittsburgh, PA, and teaches private lessons from his home in High Falls, NY.

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