Joanie Buller

Joanie’s Irish ancestry is what inspired her to take up the bagpipes. She also wanted to be musically influential for her 2 young kids, hoping that if exposed to bagpipe music long enough they will be future bagpipers and/or drummers! She contacted Sue Frambach and began taking lessons in 2009.

Jean Davis

Jean joined the band in 2009 and traces her love of the pipes to her Grandmother, a proud Scot. Jean, too, is a Frambach School of Piping grad.

Marcia Elliott

At a young age, Marcia was fascinated with the pipers playing on the square in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Marcia eventually connected with Sue Frambach, bagpipe instructor, and was taken on as a student. This is her third year with Iowa Scottish. Prior to learning the bagpipes, Marcia played piano, violin, viola, piccolo and flute and was a cellist in the Iowa State University Symphony

Sue Frambach

Sue explains, "My Mother made me do it!!" At her mother's suggestion, she joined the University of Iowa Scottish Highlanders, where she learned to play the bagpipes. After graduation, Sue helped found the Iowa Scottish Pipes and Drums. Currently, she is President of the Scottish Heritage Society of Iowa - Central Iowa Chapter. Sue also plays the piano and is the organist at St. Luke's Episcopal church.

Sam Greer

Sam is of Scottish descent and was cautioned as a child to "straighten up before you get us kicked out of this country too". The pipes follow naturally.

Bart Hicklin

Bart became an official member of the Iowa Scottish Pipes and Drums in 2006. Band historians have confirmed that he is the ISPD's first polo player.

Bob Henderson

Bass drummer Bob Henderson has been a percussion player off and on since 1958. He started playing with a pipe band after returning from a seven year tour in Alaska in 1977. Bob retired from the Air Force in 1987, after 23 years and touring many countries. He has played percussion with the Omaha Pipes & Drums, Coriovallum Dutch Pipes & Drums and Iowa Scottish Pipes and Drums.

Chuck Leibold

Chuck serves as Drum Sergeant (lead drummer) for the ISPD and as lead tip for the band's Grade III competition unit. As Lead Drummer he is responsible for writing all of the performance and competition drumming scores for the band. He has successfully competed in solo competition in Grades III and IV. He has been a drumming since he was just a lad and has been with the band for over twenty-five years.

Jeff Lierow

Andrea Mattingly

Andrea Mattingly, ISPAD’s lead tenor drummer, started playing the bagpipes but quickly fell in love with tenor drumming. She competed in the World Pipe Band Championships held on Glasgow Green in Scotland in 2001 when she played with the Elliott Bay Pipe Band of Seattle. Andrea is also an experienced Scottish country dancer. She moved to Iowa just over a year ago to marry the famous Dan Mattingly. Previously Andrea spent 3 years teaching in Kenya, East Africa.

Robb McMullen

Rob joined Iowa Scottish in 2005. He hails from Roland, Iowa and is a proud graduate of the Sue Frambach school of piping.

Grant Purdy

I wanted to play the pipes since I was a small child, after hearing them on a record my parents had. My parents couldn't find anyone to teach me pipes at that time, so they encouraged me to play the flute. I played that instrument for many years until my senior year in high school, when my dad finally found a man to teach me pipes. I took lessons for 6 months and went off to college, where I continued the flute but let the pipes fall by the wayside. It took coming to Des Moines and hearing the Iowa Scottish Pipe Band to get me started again. Now the flute has fallen by the wayside.

Karen Palm

Karen has been a piper with the Iowa Scottish for almost two years. She recently retired from Qwest after 30 years, and now lives peacefully in Urbandale with Digger, her Schnauzer. He is not overly fond of the pipes.

Lorinda Roth

Lorinda played French horn, piano and guitar, but she always wanted to play the bagpipes. A couple of years ago she bought a chanter and soon discovered she couldn't learn to play on her own. After months of searching for a teacher she finally connected with Sue Frambach, the local bagpipe teacher, and was taken on as a student.

Jeff Rowat

Jeff started drumming as a "little drummer boy" and continued through college. After a few years away from the drum he picked up the sticks again to join the UI Hawkeye Alumni Band. He is now enjoying life as a Scottish drummer.

Peter Schmidt

Peter was always fascinated with the pipers playing in various renaissance festivals around the mid-west his whole life. After moving to Des Moines with Army two years ago, he happened to stumble on one of ISPD's CD's. With the urging of his children he pursued his lifelong desire to learn to play the bagpipes, found Sue Frambach, and was taken on as a student. In the fall of 2009, Peter became a member of the band and played in his first parade in Des Moines.

Sue Seidenfeld

Sue has been Pipe Major of ISPAD since 2007. She founded and continues to instruct the Warrior Pipes and Drums bagpipe band at Waukee High School. Sue has played bagpipes for over 40 years with five different bands. Her background includes both vocal and instrumental music (clarinet, saxophone, bell lyre, soprano recorder, hammered dulcimer, piano and organ).

Mort Seidenfeld

Mort has been strongly influenced by the bagpipes for over 35 years. Mort played bagpipes with Omaha Pipes and Drums in 1991 through 1998 and has played with Iowa Scottish since moving back to this area in 1998.

Bruce Smith

The Iowa Scottish Pipes and Drums has been my favorite place to go on Thursday nights playing the pipes for the last fifteen years or so. My piping experience began when I lived in Rockford, Illinois, in 1956 when my dad decided that since we had Scottish heritage my sister and I should learn the bagpipes. The three of us (Dad, my sister and I) played with the Rockford Scottish pipe band till we moved to Minneapolis in 1959. My dad and I then joined the Twin Cities Band (they didn’t allow women). Other experiences were with the Brian Boru Irish band in Minneapolis and the Mackenzie Highlanders in Des Moines. Now in retirement I play with the Hugh O’Connor Irish band in Tucson, Arizona during the winter months and ISPAD during the summer.

Chris Tyrrell

Chris joined the band in 1995, learning the pipes from then PM Tom Mulvehill. He enjoyed solo competition in the light music early in his career, but is now content to annoy the neighbors with piobaireachd. He occasionally plays with the band in its various endeavors.