Bad Haggis

Cutting-edge Celtic for the New Millennium

This is one of the group publicity photos.

Recently there have been movies in which you hear the sounds of the bagpipes. Turns out that in many cases, it's one artist doing the bagpipe work, one Eric Rigler. He's done "Braveheart," "Titanic" and "Austin Powers," among others. Now he's got a band, and he showed up at the 2002 Atlanta Celtic Festival.

Bad Haggis?, you may ask. My question was: is there such a thing as good haggis?

Then I got to listen to them. Their sound is not exactly traditional, but it's good. Eric plays not just the pipes we all know and love, but the Scottish smallpipes and the Uilleann pipes. You don't find many people these days playing more than one or two types of pipes (except the guy who's got the album where he plays 30 different types of pipes).

The other members of the band are Mike Hoffmann on guitars, Mick Linden on basses and vocals, and Bryon Holley on drums and vocals. Or rather, percussion and vocals. See, there's one track on "Trip," the group's second CD, where he plays the drums, the brekete, sogo, kaganu, djembe, talking drum, atoke, gankogui, axatse and Irish pygmie chant.

Here are the album covers:

store entrance	Celtic music
Filk and folk music	music books
new stuff in the store	non-musical stuff

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Copyright of the page text stays with me and is presently July 23, 2002.
Copyright to the pictures remains with the band.

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