Jon Quigg (D/S Emeritus)Jon Quigg began his drumming career in the Annapolis Pipe Band in the heart of Maryland at the age of 13. His primary influences through those formative years include the likes of John Bosworth, Tom Kee and Alex Duthart. In 1976, at the age of 16, he moved into the professional solo competitor ranks and into the Denny and Dunipace Pipe Band of Washington, DC. He assumed the Drum Sergeant position of the "the Denny band", now named the City of Washington Pipe Band, in 1989 and his solo and band successes continued through 2005 - not the least of which was a Grade II World Championship in 1999. He stepped down in 2006 to pursue further teaching and solo competition options, but has stayed on as a corps player with the band. Over the past 20 years, he has guested with The Monterey and Glenfinnan Pipe Bands of California, The Honolulu Pipes and Drums of Hawaii, Triumph Street Pipe Band of Vancouver B.C., and the Tokyo Pipe Band. His association with that band in 1994 resulted in his experience as a Yank ... performing Scottish music ... with a Japanese pipe band ... at the Interceltique Festival in L'Orient, France - surely a testament to the appeal of the pipes around the world. In addition to the pipe band world, he has also spent time pursuing his interests in American Rudimental drumming by performing with The American Originals Fife and Drum Corps with its founder (and his first instructor) John Bosworth, and recording for Row-loff Productions, one of the preeminent producers of concert and marching percussion literature in the world. He currently lives north of Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Beth - owner of the International Academy of Dance, and their terrier-mutt, "Mac" MacDubh. E-mail Jon Quigg --> Jonny1drum@comcast.net <-- Back to CoW Members |