The Stone Frigate reel

Composed by Pipe Major Donald Kerrigan

Has anyone got more information about the composer Pipe Major Donald Kerrigan; was he a Pipe Major in the military?

Another great new discovery for me.

I believe he(Kerrigan) is a Cape Breton man.
This is a relatively easy tune to play in "D" although I’d imagine that it would have been a semi tone higher on the Highland pipes originally.

So The Stone Frigate was written by Pipe Major Donald M. Carrigan. A native of Truro Nova Scotia, it was written in honour of the Stone Frigate at the Royal Military College of Canada. I believe it was around 1983 he composed it.

Thanks for that, Keegan.
I thought it may actually have been Carrigan as opposed to Kerrigan but I wasn’t sure.

This setting of PM Carrigan’s pipe reel came up in the Boston area, as being played frequently at the Canadian American club session.
The source is a transcription of an Alasdair Gillies CD by B. McOwen via John Chambers (jc:trillian.mit.edu).