Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band

Andrew Rogers began playing the bagpipe at age ten under the tutelage of the late Ivan Downie, long time Pipe Major of the Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band. After playing with that organization for sixteen years and helping the band win a number of grade two North American championships, Andrew left the band in 1995 to seriously pursue his professional solo competitive career. Since then he has accumulated many piping awards around North America and Scotland including the Silver Medal at the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban, Scotland and the MHAF United States Gold Medal at Kansas City. He currently teaches piping to students in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and various piping schools in Canada and the United States, and plays with the grade one 78th Highlanders out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a senior solo piping and pipe band adjudicator for the Atlantic Canada Pipe Band Association, and continues to compete at the Open Level around, Canada, the United States, and Scotland. Andrew also has the Piping and Drumming Qualifications Board Level Six Certificate for piping and the Teacher’s Certificate from the National Piping Centre, Glasgow, Scotland.