Chicago-land Bagpipe Prices

The cost for my services in the Chicago-land area ranges between $200. and $350. depending on time, travel, or number of performances required.

Method of payment? Cash always makes me happy, business and funeral home checks, OK. No personal checks, please. Future jobs (weddings) require a deposit, personal check, OK.

You can afford to hire the Best!

Don't wait to book me! I book weddings sometimes a year in advance and funerals usually have only a few days lead time. I can get several calls for a Saturday funeral because it's a popular burial day. The same is true for popular wedding dates.

With the High Holy Days of bagpiping around the corner. You can surprise your guests. Southside Irish Special, St. Paddy's Day, Week, Month!
Walk through. Only $150.oo (15 Minutes, South Side and So. Suburbs)

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Most programs are 10 to 15 minutes of music depending on the appropriateness of the situation or the embarrassment factor of the recipient. The bagpipe stops the action. The recipient at a party is frozen in time while the bagpiper is playing for them. It's not a background instrument! Playing time at a party can be stretched a bit by braking up the playing segments. It's easier on the ear and the bagpiper, if you avoid continuous playing. Rule of thumb: ten minutes of bagpiping is good, twenty minutes is way too much. Example: St. Paddy's Day walk through, 15 minutes.

But, I only want one Song!

What many bagpipe lovers don't realize is the bagpipe has to be played in advance (warmed up) and kept tuned prior to playing as well as adequate travel time to arrive early plus the amount of time between playing, etc, etc. It's my experience from over 25 years of playing the pipes, that few jobs are less than four hours total time. That's half a work day!

Funerals, wakes and graveside services can include 1 to 6 tunes, medleys of related tunes and often I am asked to play only "Amazing Grace". See Funeral Info

I play Irish and Scottish music plus several hymns and always wear the traditional Kilted outfit. I have played the bagpipe for many recipients who were neither Irish nor Scottish, it is an instrument that is universally recognized and quit a unique gift idea.

When only the skirl of the pipes will do!

Your bagpipe message can be delivered outside the Chicago Area too. Starting at $450. plus all expenses.
Let's surprise someone!

Contact: Paul S. Palmer, Bagpiper

Phone 312-749-3940