Exceptional piping.
Unforgettable moments.
Professional bagpiping for funerals, weddings, celebrations, and special events. We tailor to your event and provide outstanding service and support.
Professional bagpiping for weddings, funerals, memorials, celebrations, and corporate events. Choose a solo piper, a piper and drummer, or a full pipe band. Every performance is tailored to your occasion, with exceptional musicianship and professional service.
Services
There is nothing quite like the bagpipe to take your wedding celebration to the next level. Your biggest day deserves the best. Explore our wedding services.
Weddings
The Happy Bagpiper considers playing for a departed person to be the most solemn duty that a bagpiper can perform. Read more about our funeral offerings.
Funerals & Memorials
Bagpipes are AMAZING for Parties, Parades, Golf Outings, Corporate Events and Promotions, Graduations, Holidays, and more! Find out about our special event options.
Special Events
Why choose The Happy Bagpiper?
The Happy Bagpiper was founded by championship bagpiper Thom Moore in 2016 with the goal of providing the highest-quality professional bagpiping musicianship and performance for events.
We offer exceptional solo bagpipe and pipe band (pipes and drums) performances for weddings, parties, funerals, memorial services, corporate celebrations and promotional events, and a wide range of other occasions.
The Happy Bagpiper performances are provided by a carefully vetted network of skilled veteran bagpipers and drummers serving a geographic area from Philadelphia, PA, south to Wilmington, DE, Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC, north to Trenton, NJ and the greater New York City and northern New Jersey area, as well as west to Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Allentown / Bethlehem, PA and east to the NJ, DE, and MD shore points. Our expertise ensures that every Happy Bagpiper client will have the very best Celtic bagpipe music at every type of event.
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Thom Moore is a highly trained musician-bagpiper with over 4 decades of experience as a champion solo and pipe band competitor on the Great Highland Bagpipe. He has earned hundreds of trophies and medals in his record of competitions sanctioned by the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA) and the Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario, Canada (PPBSO).
A certified, successful grade 1 solo competitor (grade 5 being the lowest) and former member of more than a dozen competition-level pipe bands, Thom is a sought-after performer and bagpiping instructor for individuals and pipe bands. Thom is the Bagpiping Instructor to the Camden County (NJ) Emerald Society Pipes & Drums, the Philadelphia (PA) Police & Firefighters Pipes & Drums, and the New Castle County (DE) Police & Firefighters Pipes & Drums, and he provides lessons, workshops, and seminars to many other bands and individual bagpipers both in person and online.