Bruce Gandy Bagpiping Development Society

Together we can encourage greater appreciation of bagpipe heritage around the world! Bruce Gandy has been a professional bagpipe competitor for almost 35 years and a full-time professional bagpipe player and teacher for 14 years. This doesn’t come by chance, it comes by hard work and a great deal of opportunity. A series of events led Bruce to awake one day with a very clear thought. "All the even

ts had now come full circle in my mind, from playing myself, to raising a son who is a top piper, to really seeing how difficult it is for some people to be able to follow a passion. My concern was the lack of foundations set up just now. Is is too much work or do people feel you must be deceased first, or was it just because, generally speaking, piping is not a rich mans game."

“I’ve been blessed since my early piping days to have tremendous instruction, incredible opportunities to play with top bands, travel the world to perform, compete, judge, and compete and have been given much help along the way, and I need to do what I can now to help others achieve some of these goals.”

Once Bruce had a clear idea of what he wanted to achieve with a new society, he started on the main project of trying to raise a large, ongoing scholarship endowment.