Barry Conway has studied under Doug Ross, Ken Eller, Sandy Keith, Noel Slagle, and Bob Worrall, and had his Piobaireachd training from Jim McIntosh. He is a successful solo player having won the Ohio Scottish Games Piper of Day 3 times and won or placed at virtually every major contest in Ontario, Midwest and East including North American Championships in Maxville. Barry finished his solo career at Open level. 
He is the current Pipe Major of Great Lakes Pipe Band and a former member of Windsor Police Pipe Band Gr. 1 and City of Washington Gr. 1 Pipe Band, 87th Cleveland Gr. 2 Pipe Band, and Western Reserve Gr. 2  Pipe Band. He began his career playing with The Caledonian Pipe Band, Cleveland, OH and he is founding member and former Pipe Sergeant and Pipe Major of North Coast Pipe Band. 
He has produced or co-produced four recordings in career. Pipes UP, New Crossroads and “Dirty Laugh” while with North Coast Pipe Band and Generations while a member of 87th Cleveland Pipe Band. 
Barry has been a bagpipe instructor in the Cleveland, Ohio area for many years and has taught at the Ohio Scottish Arts School since 2008. He is an adjudicator on both the EUSPBA and MWPBA panels.

Andrew Duncan began piping at age ten. His first teacher was his mother, Ann Marie Duncan. He has studied with John Cairns for over 18 years. Drew won the P&PBSO's Champion Supreme award for Grades II and I light music. Drew has won several professional prizes in North America including the 2004 Winnipeg Knockout Championship and the 2005 John Ure Anderson Memorial Gold Medal for Piobaireachd at Ligonier. He began competing with Grade I bands at age 15. Andrew was a member of the highly successful Windsor Police Pipe Band Organization. As a nine year member of the Windsor Police Organization he was; a member of the Grades One and Two bands, pipe major of the Grade Three band, and the primary instructor and organizer for the piping school. Andrew is currently a member of the Peel Police Pipe Band. Andrew also teaches piping at Alma College. Andrew is a past president of the Windsor-Detroit Branch of the Piper's and Pipe Band Society of Ontario. Andrew is the Director of Piping at Alma College and the Co-Director of Alma College’s Highland Arts Program.  He and his wife Jodie own and operate Duncans Highland Supply and reside in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Reay Mackay was born in Toronto and studied piping under his father Colin Mackay, Murdo MacLeod and John Wilson. He turned professional at age 13 and has won most of the North American piping awards including the North American Professional Solo Championship 6 times consecutively. He has been P/M of the 48th Highlanders of Canada and the Metro Toronto Police P&D. He has judged most of the major N.A. competitions as well as World Championships in Scotland.

Stephen R. MacNeil has career consisting of 15 years of successful open piping plus 18 years experience in Grade 1 pipe bands with The MacNish Distillery and St. Thomas Police PipeBands (12 years as Pipe Sergeant). He currently plays with the Grade 1 Windsor Police Pipe Band after 4 top 5 placings at the World's in Grade 2.  Steve is also a Midwest Pipe Band Association Adjudicator and founder of the Northern Michigan School of Piping.  He is a member of the Celtic Folk group “Glengarry Road”. Steve was raised in the Detroit area, with strong family ties to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and now lives with his family in Manistee, Michigan.

Bob Worrall is one of North America's leading teachers, adjudicators and performers. Bob is a respected composer, having published two collections of bagpipe music, and also having compositions in a large number of other collections. He is featured on three solo piping recordings and is a member of the folk group "Scantily Plaid".
After a piping career with a number of Ontario's leading pipe bands, including the City of Toronto Pipe Band and the General Motors Pipe Band, Bob retired from competitive piping in 1983. His solo accomplishments were extensive, both in North America and Scotland. He won the North American Professional Championship an unprecedented 7 times and the Ontario Professional Championship Supreme title for 12 of his 13 years in the professional class. He was also the 1977 winner of the March and Strathspey/Reel events in Inverness. He was a pupil of Bill Millar, Willie Connell and the late John Wilson.
A member of all North American and the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association's judging panels, Bob has been selected to judge the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow on eleven occasions. For the last three years he has been the colour commentator for the BBC's broadcast of the World Pipe Band Championships. He was added to the Piobaireachd Society's Senior Judges list and in November, 2000, became the first non U.K. adjudicator to judge a major U.K. solo event when he was selected to adjudicate the Bratach Gorm in London, England. He has adjudicated the Macallan/MacCrimmon solo piping event in Brittany on ten occasions. He has adjudicated the New Zealand, Australian, and South African National Championships. He has also been a solo adjudicator at both the Cowal and Argyllshire Gatherings.
Bob was the senior instructor at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton for 15 years. Recently, he has been taking on a number of new summer school assignments, including Kingston, Ontario; Washington State; Vancouver Island; Uruguay; and, South Africa. He has also been a regular performer and adjudicator at the Lorient Celtic Festival in Brittany, France. His weekend workshops and recitals provide him with a schedule that has him booked months in advance and have taken him to virtually all of the Canadian provinces and 36 U.S. States.