News - Matt Willis Bagpiper

Join Matt Willis & Peter Bailey for Christmas Carols for Charity!

December 8, 2017

Love holiday music? Love Bagpipes? Ever thought those two would never meet? Never fear! Pipe Major Matt Willis Bagpiper and Pipe Sergeant Peter Bailey Bagpiper from Metroplex United Pipe Band are going trade their typical Great Highland Bagpipes for some Scottish smallpipes to live-stream Christmas carols and other holiday music on Facebook! Click here to head […]

Matt Willis featured artist for R.G. Hardie & Co.!

September 26, 2017

Matt Willis Bagpiper is thrilled to announce he has been added as a featured artist for the R.G. Hardie & Co.! Click here to read more! Matt WON his current set of P. Henderson pipes (made by R.G. Hardie & Co.) at the January ’17 Winter Storm concert in Kansas City! There was a raffle, […]

New Pipe Tunes on Soundcloud!

August 12, 2017

Just posted, new music including a solo version of Metroplex United Pipe Band’s 2017 March set, including the classic tunes “Corriechoillie’s Welcome,” “Teribus,” “The Rowan Tree, and “Wings.” Also on Soundcloud is my take on “The Kansas City Hornpipe” by Fred Morrison as well as my three-part arrangement of the theme to “Game of Thrones” […]

Rathmore to HEADLINE Texas Scottish Festival this Friday May 5, 2017!

May 2, 2017

Matt’s Celtic Rock band Rathmore will be headlining this Friday at Texas Scottish Festival, with the show starting at 9pm. Several members of Metroplex United, including Peter Bailey, Leah Jahns, and Barrett Bishop will join Matt onstage for the introduction of the show. You don’t want to miss this!

Just in time for the Holidays! Volume TWO: Christmas Edition of Tunes, Chords & Harmony AVAILABLE!

November 20, 2015

JUST RELEASED on AMAZON!! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1943784094 Experienced highland bagpiper Matt Willis has created a collection of 22 favorite Christmas and holiday songs with unique harmony parts for all of the tunes. This book also contains a CD with all the melodies and harmonies played on the highland pipes by Matt Willis. An extra feature of this […]