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BAD HAGGIS

Cutting-edge Celtic meets jazzy-world fusion

About Me

Just nominated for six Just Plain Folks awards, Los Angeles-based Celtic/World/Fusion Bad Haggis, featuring "world's most recorded piper" Eric Rigler, performs Nov. 11 at the JPF Awards show at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana. Bad Haggis makes several debuts in 2006 and returns to some familiar venues. Debuts include Scottish highland games in Sacramento and Anchorage, Irish festivals in Albany and Phoenix and LA's Getty Center. The band returns to Dublin, Ohio's huge Irish festival, Ventura's Seaside Highland Games, Pomona's United Scottish Society games, the Queen Mary Scottish Festival and the Los Angeles Farmers Market jazz series. Still ahead are Rosalie and Alva's Performance Gallery in San Pedro and the Orange County Celtic Festival in Irvine.Bad Haggis tours in 2006 to support their new cd WINE DARK SEA.

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Member Since: 3/13/2006
Band Website: badhaggis.com
Band Members: ERIC RIGLER -- BAGPIPES, WHISTLES; ROGERIO JARDIM -- DRUMS, VOCALS; MICK LINDEN -- BASS, VOCALS; MIKE HOFFMANN -- GUITARS; ALBERTO LOPEZ -- ETHNIC PERCUSSION

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Influences: Bad Haggis's discography includes Wine Dark Sea (2005), the award-nominated DVD Span (2004) featuring salsa king Ruben Blades, Trip (2001) and Ark (2000). Master piper Eric Rigler appears on more than 100 albums by such stars as Phil Collins, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart, Tracy Chapman and Josh Groban.

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