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Band members: (listed alphabetically)

Sophia Balentine

Sophia Balentine

A former member and instructor for Body By Bellydance, Sophia has spent the last two years in Manhattan participating and performing with the Casbah Dance Experience with Morocco, one of the first dancers admitted to the AAMED Mideastern Dance Hall of Fame as a “world class” performer and instructor as well as a lifetime achievement award winner from both the Isis Foundation and Zaghareet Magazine.

Andrew Beck

Andrew Beck

Andrew Beck began his piping career at the tender age of 10 years old taking lessons from Bill Smillie.

He started down the Great Highland Bagpipe Competition path two years later with Northwest Indiana Pipes and Drums and quickly qualified as Champion Supreme at Grade III.

David Duncan

David Duncan

David began bagpiping at age 12. He has since played in many traditional pipe bands including: North Coast Pipe Band, 7 Pipers Society, 78th Frasers, Toronto Police, Midlothian Scottish and the College of Wooster Pipe Band.

Jill Anne Jack

Jill Anne Jack

A former member of Celtic Menagerie, Jill Jack spent over five years performing professionally before lending her skills to this project.  Now a partial owner and full time road dog, she draws her inspiration from the many cultures and areas she visits.  “Life is a highway. Let’s ride.”

Max McDougall

Max McDougall

Max has had a passion for drums ever since he was but a wee one, but started learning and playing more seriously by the age of fourteen. He has played percussion, mostly drum kit, with many different bands and genres of music in the Houston and Greater Houston Area such as: Violent Iris (Alternative Rock), Erase the Virus (Industrial), All the Above (Punk), and Sever Syndrome (Emo).

Mike McNutt

Mike McNutt

Mike McNutt began piping at age 10 and has played in numerous bands, solo competitions and concerts over his 16 year career. He has received instruction from many highly skilled and generous teachers over the years and in 1998 began making a yearly trek to the Gaelic College in St. Ann’s, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. He’s known for having “the grip of the ancients”.

Adrian Walter

Adrian Walter

Adrian Walter is the booking contact, drummer, dancer, and front man of  Tartanic. If you let him—he’ll pick up guitars and penny whistles or a didgeridoo—but heavy medication has aided greatly to quell this urge.

Elijah Woolcott

Elijah Woolcott

Elijah joined Tartanic as a full member in February 2010.  A bag-piping Michigander of nearly 20 years, Elijah brings to Tartanic both solo and Grade II/I pipe band competition experience, as well as an innovative ear for compositional musical theory.