Bob Worrall 

Bob Worrall is one of North America’s leading teachers, adjudicators and performers.  Bob is a respected composer, having published three successful collections of bagpipe music.  He is featured on three solo piping recordings and was a member of the folk group “Scantily Plaid”. 

After a piping career with a number of Ontario’s leading pipe bands, including the City of Toronto Pipe Band and the General Motors Pipe Band, Bob retired from competitive piping in 1983.  His solo accomplishments were extensive, both in North America and Scotland.  He won the North American Professional Championship an unprecedented 7  times and the Ontario Professional Championship Supreme title for 12 of his 13 years in the professional class.  He was also the 1977 winner of the March and Strathspey/Reel events in Inverness.  He was a pupil of Bill Millar, Willie Connell and the late John Wilson.

A member of  North American and the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association’s judging panels, Bob has been selected to judge the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow on sixteen occasions.  For the last 18 years he has been the colour commentator for the BBC’s broadcast of the World Pipe Band Championships.  He is a member of the Piobaireachd Society’s Senior Judges list and has adjudicated   major competitions throughout the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Brittany and South Africa.   Bob's recent overseas piping ventures have included teaching and performing engagements  in Zimbabwe, Australia and Italy. His M.C. skills have been called upon by the Field Marshal Montgomery, Simon Fraser University, Scottish Power, Inveraray and District, Toronto Police Pipe Bands, and most recently, the annual Winter Storm concert.  

Bob was the senior instructor at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton for 15 years.  He is the Director of Summer Blast, the PPBSO's virtual summer school.. Other recent piping camps have included Kingston (Ontario), the Ohio Scottish Arts School, Lake Diefenbaker   (Saskatchewan), Washington State and Oregon, Vancouver Island, Uruguay, Australia and South Africa.  Weekend workshops, adjudicating and recitals provide him with a schedule that has taken him to virtually all of the Canadian provinces and 36 U.S. States.

Eric MacNeill

Eric MacNeill is regarded as one of the top pipe band drummers in North America. Growing up in a pipe band family, Eric brings a lifetime of experience as a drummer, competitor, adjudicator, composer, and leader to the Scottish Arts community.

Eric became the Lead Drummer for the Oran Mor Pipe Band, of upstate NY, in 2000 and helped build the band to the top of Grade 2 and into Grade 1. In 2011, Eric led Oran Mor into the Grade 1 finals (top 14 bands in the world) at the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. In 2012, Eric joined the 6-time World champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band of Vancouver, BC where he played under long-time mentor, Lead Drummer J Reid Maxwell.

In 2015, Eric took a position as Drumming Director for the CIty of Dunedin Pipe band programs in Dunedin, Florida and assumed the role of lead drummer for the City of Dunedin Pipe Band. With Eric, the City of Dunedin quickly rose to the top of grade 2, winning the North American Championships in 2016 and the World Pipe Band and Drum Corps championships in 2018.

This success catapulted the City of Dunedin into grade 1, where the band won the grade 1 North American Championship in 2019.

Eric is also an accomplished solo performer, having qualified for the World Solo Drumming Championships Finals (top 12 solo drummers) in 2018, 2019, and 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Eric is a past president of the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, and currently a member of the association’s Music Board and Adjudicator’s panel for bass, tenor and snare. Eric is currently the president of the Dunedin Scottish Arts Foundation, overseeing Scottish events in Dunedin, such as the Dunedin Highland Games & Festival, the Dunedin Celtic Music Festival, and the Dunedin Tide summer camp for piping and drumming.