"How many tricks can one unicyclist do? Brian Kidd, also known as the Unipiper, uses his flamethrowing bagpipes to deliver a classical score atop a unicycle". "The Bagpipe Unicycle Guy Dressed as Charmander and Played the Pokemon Theme Song". "Musician balances on Pokeball while playing Pokemon theme on flaming bagpipes". "Watch: Unipiper presents 'Batman v Superman' in a theme song battle for the ages". "Bike Guide 2014: The Unipiper-Behind the Darth Vader mask of Portland's one-wheeled mascot". "Brian Kidd is the Unipiper: the unicycling bagpiper". ^ a b Chris Higgins (January 6, 2014)."Unipiper pops up in 'Gong Show' revival". ^ a b Turnquist, Kristi (June 21, 2017).In 2019, The Unipiper helped organize Weird Portland United, a non-profit dedicated to promoting artists and creatives in the Portland metropolitan area. His antics as Uncle Sam have attracted international attention. He has since branched out into performances referencing non-Star Wars fictional elements, including Game of Thrones, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Pokémon.
His other mainstream media appearances have included America's Got Talent and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The video featured The Unipiper wearing a Darth Vader mask, while riding a unicycle and playing the bagpipes, and was subsequently featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The Unipiper first found Internet fame in 2011 when a video of him performing The Imperial March went viral. The Unipiper is an American performance artist whose work regularly combines unicycling with playing the (sometimes flaming) bagpipes. He named his character the Unipiper when he moved to Portland. The Oregonian newspaper wrote in 2017 that he came up with the act that he would later name the Unipiper "shortly before he moved to Portland", but developed it in Portland, where he was influenced by the city's receptiveness to quirky characters. The playing, pipes and other instruments, is nice enough with some intriguing arrangements.Brian Kidd moved to Portland, Oregon, from North Carolina in 2007. I have to confess the tunes themselves don’t grab me to the point I want to learn them - the one I most like on the album is Matt’s own stirring air “Lindisfarne”. It is evidently a compendium of Border Pipe tunes and variations. She snatched it out - hence this album’s title - and duly kept it. This MS had been known about for some time - a biography of one of its owners published in the 1920s reveals that he offered to give it to a lady visitor but was offended by her offer to buy it to the extent that he threw it in the fire. England these were a bellows-blown instrument with the same 9 - note range as the Highland pipes, which went out of use in the c19 and are currently being revived.įive tracks, which I have denoted with a D, comprise tunes taken from the Dixon Manuscript, written in Northumberland in 1733 or within a few years afterwards. On this 1999 album (label, Discipline Global Mobile DGM 9907) he has recorded mainly music that would have been played on the Border Bagpipes of S. Matt Seattle is a well-respected fiddle and bagpipe player from the NE of England.
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