Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band

The Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band is a nonprofit band which was established in 1962 to preserve and advance Celtic piping, drumming, and dancing. Members of the Brian Boru Irish Pipe have performed with national acts including Green Day, Blink-182 and Rod Stewart as well as alongside local acts like Barra and Scoil Na Dtri School of Irish Dance. Our presence has been requested at events from the Minnesota Twins to the Twin Cities Marathon. The Boru has been a fixture in the St. Paul St. Patricks Day Parade since the very beginning.

Members of the Brian Boru Irish Pipe have performed with national acts including Green Day, Blink-182 and Rod Stewart as well as alongside local acts like Barra and Scoil Na Dtri School of Irish Dance. Our presence has been requested at events from the Minnesota Twins to the Twin Cities Marathon. The Boru has been a fixture in the St. Paul St. Patricks Day Parade since the very beginning.

Our distinctive Irish uniforms -- the saffron kilt, black tunic, and black cabeen (beret) with green or red plumes -- are modeled after traditional Irish pipe bands. A number of the band members wear the original brass buttons from uniforms of the Irish Volunteers, the very units involved in the historic Easter Uprising in Dublin, 1916. Officers of the Brian Boru Band, recognized by the distinctive red sash worn across their left shoulder, choose the tunes you hear.

Some of the music performed by the Brian Boru Band came out of that fierce era of Ireland's past. Other pieces are more modern, and many are much, much older -- ancient reels and airs, timeless ballads and war marches, and lively, lighthearted jigs.