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Teddy Krogh
Piper
Pipe
Major
krogh_teddy@hotmail.com
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Jim Bohannon
Piper
biologic@alaska.com
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 Aiden
Bromaghin
Piper
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Bruce Chandler
Drummer
bpc@gci.net
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Erik Chroinster
Drummer
erikthegreatbeatsdrumslikeanimal@hotmail.com
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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. |
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Lacey Donaldson
Drummer
laceyak@gmail.com
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Eric Langerman
Drummer
jollygunner@gmail.com
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Chase Newbrough
Drummer
new4cats@aol.com
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Piper
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Pat Murphy
Piper
murf2bike@gci.net
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Mark Ryan
Piper
pandmryan@gci.net
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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. |
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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! |
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Dave Torrance
Drummer
dave210th@gmail.com
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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