Ken Smith

Pipe Major Ken Smith

Background:

v Hometown Peebles Scotland

v Served in 1st Battalion Scots Guards

v Performed at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and three Military Edinburgh Tattoos, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

v Pipe Sergeant Blue Bonnets (City of London) Pipe Band

v Pipe Major, British Airways Pipe Band, 1991-2001, played worldwide for the British High Commission/ Embassies, British Trade Fairs, Saint Andrew’s Night Balls, Robert Burns’s Suppers and British Airway functions. Guest band at the 1996 New Hampshire Highland Games, Loon Mountain.

v Before Leaving the United Kingdom, played solo for their Royal Highnesses, the Sultan of Oman and the late Princess Alexandra in London, 2003

v Experienced at playing for all social occasions, such as weddings, cocktail parties, anniversaries, birthdays and funerals.

v Play the Small Pipes

Training / Affiliations

v Army School of Piping at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

v Pipe Majors course, College of Piping, Glasgow, Scotland

v The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, RSPBA, UK

v Scots Guards Pipers Branch Association

v Retired, Scotland Yard Metropolitan Police London

v National Association of Retired Police Officers, UK

v New Hampshire School Scottish Arts, Instructor/ Band Member