Metro Atlanta Bagpiper - Occasional Music
About Tom Crawford
Tom Crawford was born in New Jersey, but has lived more than half his life in the
Atlanta GA area. Growing up just outside NYC, he learned to play rock, folk, blues and country music on guitar and bass.
He expanded his skills to include the tin whistle, mandolin, banjo,
bouzouki, and pedal steel guitar. Tom started college at age 16 as a music
major but graduated with a degree in Urban Planning. Developing his talents
in the graphics field, Tom founded Presentation Visuals, a computer-graphic
business communication company in 1984. PVI eventually morphed into
Atlanta Web Service LLC, a web services
firm specializing in the needs of small business, associations and
non-profits.
Tom moved to the Atlanta area in 1980 on a lark and now lives in
Woodstock, GA. His two grown children are Georgia natives but now reside in
Morristown NJ and Abuja Nigeria (Africa).
Highlights from my piping career include performing with The Chieftains
in Atlanta and Athens GA, The Celtic Women at the Fox Theater, Rod Stewart
at Philips Arena, and at the UT half-time show in Knoxville TN. I've toured
the Ring of Kerry in Ireland and Western Ontario, Canada with Keltic Kudzu.
I'm equally proud of my work for several Relays for Life and American Cancer
Society Golf Tournaments and events.
- Bagpiper since 2000
- Musician since 1966
- Active competitive bagpiper at the Grade 2 level, visiting Highland Games throughout the southeast, and as far as Canada
- Pipe Major of the North Georgia Pipes & Drums,
the newest Grade 4 band in Georgia.
- Member of Keltic Kudzu, a Celtic Band with a Southern Accent
- Active in the Southern Branch of the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association (EUSPBA),
the largest geographical branch of the largest Pipe Band Association in the world
Piping in front of three volcanoes on a pier in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Performance at the British Consul General's Residence
Playing in Sneem, Ireland on a Keltic Kudzu tour on the Ring of Kerry (left), and playing for the dancers in Douglasville, GA (right)