Brian Bigley has studied the Irish uilleann pipes for more than 25 years as a player and builder of the instrument. He has toured North America and Europe extensively as both a musician and a dancer, appearing in productions such as Tomàseen Foley's A Celtic Christmas and Apollo’s Fire’s Sugarloaf Mountain Christmas, and he is delighted to be back with Celtic Journey. In 2002 and 2003 Brian competed with great distinction at the World Irish Dance Championships held in Glasgow and Killarney. In 2019, he was awarded second place at the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in the piping competition. Brian has four self-produced albums of traditional Irish music as well as a contribution to the Sugarloaf Mountain Christmas album that reached number three on the Billboard Charts. Brian now lives near Cleveland, Ohio, with his fiddler wife, Kristen, and their dancing children, James and Kathleen. There, they have started a family business producing stage productions and building Irish pipes and flutes. In 2019, they debuted their very own show called Rambling House, which will be on tour in 2020.
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