CONTACT:    Ian Rawlinson
                        (818)518-3612
Email:             IRawlins1@yahoo.com
Location:        Orem, Utah
 Some other Pipe and Whistle sites: 
James J. Coyne Memorial Pipe Band,
    Seumas Coyne's pipe band.  A solid Grade 2, out of Southern California.  Seumas taught me the pipes.  He is a master piper... this is a great sounding and very family oriented pipe band named in honor of Seumas' Father the late James Coyne.
Mick's Virtual Whistle,
    This is one of my favorite tin whistle sites with Mick's beautiful playing along with sheet music.  He lives in Northern England, and has made a really great site, a great learning tool as well.  If you are learning the whistle be sure to check it out, and if you just like to listen the recordings are quite nice. 
Here is a newspaper article from 1992 about myself when I was still a kid, it was in the LA times, I came across it on the WEB. 


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A Chronicle of the Passing Scene


August 21, 1992|SUE REILLY
Bringing Home the GoldWhile some of our million-dollar babies were slam-dunking gold medals in Barcelona, Ian Rawlinson of North Hollywood was getting some of his own in another venue.
Rawlinson, who marches to a different drummer, won his gold at the Glengarry Highland Games in Maxville, Ontario, Canada, site of his North American championship.He won two more gold medals at the recent Big Bear Games which, incidentally, culminated with an earthquake.Rawlinson's event takes a lot of lung power, but he's not a swimmer, and his footwork's fancy, but he doesn't run or jump.He's a 14-year-old bagpiper. The youngest member of the Los Angeles Scots Pipe Band.When they yell "Thar he blows" in his neighborhood, they aren't talking about Moby Dick.His brother, Justin Rawlinson, 18, is a big supporter."We have some Scots blood, he and I were both interested in the bagpipes," his brother says. "But Ian was really serious, he's really good."That admiration hasn't kept Justin and his friends from occasionally threatening to lock Ian in his room, a room their mother, Maureen Rawlinson, says she's going to soundproof.So why does a nice-looking, athletic, musical kind of guy just entering Notre Dame High School play the bagpipes? Why not go for some sport with endorsement money or at least a rock band with the groupie perk?"It's cool," he says. "Bagpiping has a lot of class and history attached to it."Employment opportunities are definitely limited, however."Still, it's something you can enjoy all your life," he says.
Utah Bagpiper, John Miner
A good piper who really loves bagpipes.  I really like the pictures of historical pipers and bits of history on this page.