Murray Easton

Murray Easton has earned the well-deserved title of Levin’s Own Piper. 

Murray has been playing the bagpipes for over fifty years at all sorts of special events in the district: ANZAC parades; civic parades; Christmas at the War Veterans Home; St Andrew’s Day; Haggis ceremonies and for private functions like a recent naval wedding in Koputaroa.

Murray learnt to play as a youngster in Hawkes Bay but he and his pipes have travelled the world with some wonderful and unusual highlights like playing for the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday; the Edinburgh Tattoo; and he was invited to play with the City of Christchurch Pipe Band in Tripoli in Libya in a military music festival in honor of Colonel Gaddafi’s forty years in power. 

The pipes have been a large part of family life for Murray. He has a drummer, a piper and a highland dancer in the line up! Bagpipes so often provide the wonderful finishing touch to special occasions and we in Horowhenua are grateful to have had such an accomplished piper to enhance them.