Award-winning Delaware County bagpiper, competition bagpipers and drummers with over 30 years experience.  One or more available for entertainment at weddings, funerals, parties and more.

William Watson

• Winner of solo EUSPBA competitions, 1983-1989, at the Delaware County Scottish Games, the Alexandria Scottish Games, the Long Island Scottish Games, the Syracuse Scottish Games, and the Williamsburg Scottish Games. 

• Bagpiper for University of Pennsylvania events, 1984-present.

• Chairman of Honorary Pipers for St Andrew's Society of Philadelphia, 2001 - present.

• Official "Honored Guest" of Black Watch, took salute on behalf of City of Philadelphia at Spectrum, 2000.

• Scottish and Irish uniforms

• Performed for:

  • First Ladies Barbara Bush

  • Hillary Clinton

  • Former President Jimmy Carter

  • Musicians Bono and Quincy Jones

  • Academy Award winners Charlton Heston and Jodie Foster

  • Nobel Laureates Seamus Heaney

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

• Holder of PhD in History, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.

• Research and piping featured in 2006 RTE/Smithsonian Institution documentary "The Ghosts of Duffy's Cut," and 2013 PBS/RTE documentary "Death on the Railroad."