Born into Clan MacGregor, Elise grew up enjoying the weekly summer parades of Eastern Canada’s 100-year-old Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band. Nowadays, she performs seasonally with the KSPB, competes year-round with California’s Silicon Valley Pipe Band, and also performs with California’s Monterey Bay Pipe Band. Her solo performances include being a seasonal phantom piper at Kincardine harbor’s historical lighthouse, giving concerts at Silver Mountain Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and bagpiping for private and corporate events in Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Bay Area. Elise also plays bagpipes and fiddle with Celtic band Charmas.
Private clients have praised Elise for having a professional attitude, helping clients choose appropriate music, setting a reverent mood, creating lively concert sets, and playing expressively for emotional occasions.
Elise’s green kilt features a modern version of the MacGregor tartan. Her Silicon Valley Pipe Band kilt features the gray/light blue Baird tartan, And her Monterey Bay Pipe Band kilt features the dark blue/green MacKenzie tartan.
Two sets of Great Highland bagpipes, one made by Broadleys in Scotland and one made by Roddy MacLellan of North Carolina, allow Elise to offer a choice of sounds favoring various indoor and outdoor spaces. She also own a set of Garvie session pipes, made by Nigel Richards, for events where Great Highland Bagpipes might be too loud.
Bagpiper Servicing California's San Jose and Monterey Bay Regions & The Greater San Francisco Bay Area 