Bev Palin Northumbrian Piper
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Bev Palin Northumbrian Piper
40, Bisley Rd
Morpeth
NE65 0NP
Tel : 01665 714 115
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| Beverley A Palin is a multi-instrumentalist performer and teacher, with a successful teaching practice alongside her performance work. She took up first the piano and then the Northumbrian smallpipes at the age of 9, taught by Joe Hutton, one of the most brilliant pipers of his generation. She played with the renowned Scottish Country band "The Cheviot Ranters" (later "The Glen Aln") from the age of 14, and appears on their final album, "Banks of the Aln". |
| Bev began work as a semi-professional piper while studying at university, and has provided music for many events from quiet civil weddings to international brain-surgery conferences, athletics events and the 1966 World Cup squad's annual get-together. She specializes in weddings and funerals, but can provide music for any occasion, please enquire! |
| She loves a challenge, whether leading processions with a horse-drawn carriage or serenading the sunset from a windswept castle roof, she will provide a personalised service to make your special event unique. She is one of very few working pipers in the full traditional dress in the country, and has appeared on the BBC's "The Curious House-Guest" and Channel 4's "Meet the Natives" at Chillingham Castle, where she is piper to Sir Humphry Wakefield. |
| Classically trained, she holds diplomas from the London College of Music, as well as degrees from Newcastle and Durham universities, and continues to study theory and composition on an informal basis, as well as developing her practical skills. Her favourite composers are Bach, Handel and Mozart, but she enjoys most music from Renaissance to the present day. |
| When not performing or teaching, Bev is an enthusiastic tribal-style belly dancer and enjoys archaeology, particularly Egyptology, keeping rabbits and fancy goldfish, growing vegetables, composing and historical cookery. She lives in the town she was born in and is married to Sam. |
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