Gordon Andrew Taylor
Gord Taylor has always walked a different path than most. Gord started performing at age 10 with The Lord Selkirk Boy Scout Pipe Band and began composing when he was 13. From age 14 to 19, he and Matt MacNasty (of the Real McKenzies) began playing together in pubs and clubs, usually in exchange for drinks. Throughout his musical career, he’s toured Canada, the USA, Europe, and Asia. His stories of life on the road include uninvited – and sometimes risky – performances in bars and pubs from Scotland to Japan.
Gord has published three music books. The first, in 1993 with East Coast piper, John Gillis, and the second, in the year 2000, released as a private collection of tunes. In 2008 The Sherbrook Music Company published a third collection of Gord’s original tunes called “One Tone over the Line (Sweet Mhairi).” Gord describes it as “a beast of a book” containing over 130 melodies, harmonies and production pieces, some of which can be heard as mp3s listed in the Media section of this website.
These days you can still catch Gord playing his 1945 Robertson bagpipes, but increasingly you’re more likely to hear his combination of classical, Spanish and heavy guitar.