Teddy Krogh

Piper

Pipe Major

krogh_teddy@hotmail.com

Jim Bohannon

Jim Bohannon

Piper

biologic@alaska.com

 

 


Aiden Bromaghin

Piper

 

 

Bruce Chandler

Bruce Chandler

Drummer

bpc@gci.net

 

 


Erik Chronister

Erik Chroinster

Drummer

erikthegreatbeatsdrumslikeanimal@hotmail.com

 

 

Ken Cunningham

Cionaod (Ken) Cunningham

Piper

cionaod@mtaonline.net

 

Cionaod was raised in Ballymahon, Ireland and imigrated to the United States at the age of 10 to Brooklyn, New York in 1964.  In 1972 he joined the USAF as an Aircraft Mechanic, he is a Viet Nam vetran, and when he separated from the Air Force in 1978, he had attained his commercial pilots license.  Cionaod has been flying as an Airline pilot for 31 years and is presently a Captain on the B747-400.  Cionaod has been playing the pipes since 1985, and has played with the Royal Canadian Legion.  In 1990, Cionaod moved to Alaska, and has been playing with the Crow Creek Pipes and Drums since 1995.

Lacey Donaldson

Drummer

laceyak@gmail.com

 

 

 

Loy Donaldson

Drummer

Drum Sergeant

pakinled@hotmail.com

 

I started playing "percussion" at an early age with mixing bowls and spoons. Despite this, my parents allowed me to live long enough to move on to Orff instruments in the 3rd grade and later to orchestral percussion. I currently play with the Anchorage Symphony, Opera, Civic Orchestra, and several smaller theater companies in town. I became interested in pipe bands after watching Crow Creek at the '07 Highland Games and decided to start taking lessons in Scottish Side Drumming.

  

Ryan Johnson

Ryan Johnson

Piper

President

president@crowcreekpipes.com

 

I love the skirl of the pipes.  There is no other sound like them.  They are unearthly, transcendental, and a lot of fun.  I had moved around a lot during school and when I moved to Anchorage in 2004 I knew it would be for long enough to finally fulfil my dream of learning to play the bagpipes.  I promptly sought out the best local band and have been with Crow Creek ever since.

 

 

  

Heather King

Heather King

Drummer

king_heather@asdk12.org

 

Heather competed at her first solo event at the Alaska Highland Games in 2006, and has been drumming at every available moment since! She is an instructor for the Crow Creek Pipes and Drums in Anchorage, and an instructor for the Alaskan Youth Pipes and Drums group in Eagle River, Alaska. The majority of Heather's drumming instruction has come from Tyler Fry at numerous drumming schools. She has also learned a few things from Kevin MacHeffner, Mike Jett and Andrew Hoinacki. While Heather is a tenor drummer at heart, she has pursued some snare drumming with lessons from Steven McWhirter, John Scullion, Reid Maxwell and Blair Brown.

Eric Langerman

Drummer

jollygunner@gmail.com

 

Chase Newbrough

Drummer

new4cats@aol.com

 


Matt Rowley

 

Piper

 

 

 

 

Pat Murphy

Piper

murf2bike@gci.net

 


Mark Ryan

Mark Ryan

Piper

pandmryan@gci.net

 

Gerda Stechauner

Piper

gerda.nolan@bp.com

 

Hi, I'm Gerda.  I was born and raised in Anchorage, and I learned to play the bagpipes with CCPD when I was about 12 years old.  When I went away to college in 1996, that was the beginning of a long hiatus from piping, except for a short stint practicing with Stonehaven Pipe Band in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2006.  In total, I spent about 8 years abroad studying and working, but I finally returned to playing with CCPD in fall 2008 when I moved back to Anchorage.  I work at BP as a reservoir engineer for the Prudhoe Bay field.

 

 


Jenni Stewart

Jenni Stewart

Piper

Pipe Sergeant

Secretary

burpbirl@gmail.com

 

When I was 11 years old, my parents trotted off to Scotland and they came back home with a set of bagpipes that they bought for $27 (circa 1940 MacRae's with ivory) and I was told that I was going to learn to play and I haven't looked back since.  My career as a radiation therapist actually gets in the way of my piping but it keeps the bill collectors off my back!

  

 

Dave Torrance

Drummer

dave210th@gmail.com

 

 


Chris Walker

Chris Walker

Piper

Quatermaster

aewalker@mtaonline.net

 

Chris Walker started on chanter at age sixteen after a six month battle with her parents who wanted her to play anything but the bagpipes.  They eventually gave in and after many years later they, and most of the old neighborhood, decided that they enjoyed it.  She met her husband at bagpipe school, and they now have two twenty-something drummers as offspring.

 

 

Jim Walker

Jim Walker

Piper

Assistant Quatermaster

aewalker@mtaonline.net

 

Jim Walker met a bagpiper from Philomath, Oregon who was willing to take on an adult beginner student.  After a year on the practice chanter, it was strongly suggested that I take two weeks off work and go to bagpipe school in Couer d'Alene, Idaho.  While there, I actually started playing my bagpipes and met Chris, a bagpiper from Palmer, Alaska who was one of the founders of Crow Creek Pipes & Drums.  After we married, Chris brought me up to Alaska and introduced me to the band in 1984.  Other than odd absences (law school in Oregon, etc.) I have been playing with Crow Creek ever since.

 

 


Bill Watson

Bill Watson

Piper

Treasurer

treasurer@crowcreekpipes.com

 

Bill is a transplanted South Dakotan who came to Alaska via the U.S. Air Force. He is an accountant and recently started playing the pipes after a lifetime love affair with the sound.

 

 

J.P. Wood

Piper

jp_wood@yahoo.com

 

JP Wood was born and raised in Alaska. He works for the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, the State agency that regulates public utilities (water, electricity, gas, telephone...). He started learning the pipes four years ago so that he could distract himself from the irritation of having to work for a living. The pipes, being loud, are nice and distracting.

 

 


 

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