Roddy Deans

Adding a musical sparkle to any event with the combination of traditional highland dress and award winning bagpiping.

Pipe Major Roddy Deans has been playing the bagpipes for 17 years, competing as well as entertaining. As a member of George Watson's College Pipe Band he won British and Scottish Pipe band championships, and later became Pipe Major. Roddy has also played with Grade 1 Bands in top adult competition against the best pipers in the world.

On the solo circuit, Roddy picked up a Bronze Medal in the Cowal World Solo Championships, as well as winning the Lothian and Borders Solo Competition.

For the last eight years, Roddy has worked as a professional piper, entertaining people from all over the world, from Scotland to the Ukraine, Australia and Kenya. He has played at foreign weddings, ex-patriot Burns Suppers as well as entertaining on board Scotland's only International cruise ship, The Hebridean Spirit.

Michelle Kath and Keifer Sutherland with Pipe Major Roddy Deans. May 2004.

He has participated in Scottish shows, Highland Games, Hen Nights, concerts, even giving an assembly to a Kenyan school. Corporate events in the past have made a lasting impression on guests, making them remember fondly the night they have had.

Roddy is available for weddings, parties and all other events throughout the central regions of Scotland, supplying 5 star hotels and castles and private clients. He is also more than happy to pack his pipes and travel a little further to make your event memorable.

Full ceremonial number 1 dress is worn for most occasions. Pipe Major Roddy Deans wears a Ramsay tartan kilt and a horse hair sporran with the military black tunic plaid. The outfit is finished off with a feather bonnet. ( For less formal events, Roddy can appear in number 2 uniform, comprising of a kilt and Prince Charlie jacket. )