Upper Potomac Music Weekends 

Weekend retreat featuring classes, concerts, sessions and private tutorials for a variety of bellows-blown bagpipes, flute, fiddle, and mixed instruments.

This year, the Pipers Weekend offers 2-hour long classes at a variety of levels in Scottish smallpipes, border pipes, Northumbrian small pipes, Irish uilleann pipes, French pipes, and piper-friendly repertoire for mixed-instruments in a variety of styles.

A Friday night starts with a hosted round-robin (introductions, show and tell, and open mike) followed by sessions. Saturday night’s showcase concert is followed by a jam.

Our 2025 staff includes:

Weekend retreat featuring classes, concerts, sessions and private tutorials for a variety of bellows-blown bagpipes,​

• Sean Gavin (Uilleann pipes and Flute)

• Dick Hensold (Northumbrian smallpipes)

• on Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: Rosalind Buda,  and Iain MacHarg. 

• Further enrichment classes TBA.

Rental Pipes Available

Rental of high quality Border and Scottish Smallpipes provided by Robert Felsburg and others will for a fee of $40 for the weekend. Advance reservation is needed as quantity is limited.

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