Upper Potomac Music Weekends 

Upper Potomac Piper's Weekend...  January 14-16, 2022
Totally online this year!

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

Our 2022 staff includes:

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

• Brian Bigley (uilleann pipes)

• Jerry O'Sullivan (uilleann pipes)

• Dick Hensold (Northumbrian smallpipes)

• on Scottish smallpipes and borderpipes: Rosalind Buda, Nick Hudson and Allan MacDonald

• Nicolas Gerardin (French pipes, Repertoire and Gurdy)

• Further enrichment classes TBA.

Rental of high quality Border and Scottish Smallpipes provided by Robert Felsburg and others will (not available this year) for a fee of $40 for the weekend. Advance reservation is needed as quantity is limited.