Bad Haggis is a Celtic band with roots based in Irish folk music group from America led by piper Eric Rigler, who has played on dozens of movie soundtracks. A tune by Bad Haggis was used in the first season of Crossing Jordan, and pipe and whistles played by Eric Rigler are still heard regularly on the show. Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic that is currently politically divided into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ... Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that airs on NBC. It stars Jill Hennessy as a crime-solving medical examiner. ...

Eric Rigler has played bagpipes on several movies and is commonly regarded as "The world's most recorded Piper". He also played the pipes at former President Ronald Reagan's memorial service. Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ...

Current members

• Eric Rigler
• Mike Hoffmann
• Mick Linden
• Bryon Holley

As of 2005/2006:

• Eric Rigler
• Mike Hoffmann
• Mick Linden
• Rogerio Jardim
• Alberto Lopez

Discography

• Bad Haggis (1998)
• Ark (2000)
• Trip (2001)
• Wine Dark Sea (2005)

Movie Soundtracks with either Bad Haggis or just Eric Rigler

• Titanic
• Braveheart
• Austin Powers
• Troy
• Master and Commander
• Cinderella Man

Titanic is an Academy Award winning 1997 dramatic film released by 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures. ... Braveheart is an epic American motion picture released in 1995 based on the life of William Wallace, a national hero in Scotland. ... Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, directed by Jay Roach, is the first film of the Austin Powers series. ... Troy is a movie that was released on May 14, 2004 about the Trojan War, which is described in Homers Iliad and other Greek myths as having taken place in Anatolia (modern Turkey) around the 13th or 12th century BC. It stars, among others: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric... Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. ... Cinderella Man is a 2005 American drama film titled after the nickname and inspired by the real life story of former Heavyweight boxing champion, James J. Braddock. ...

External links

• badhaggis.com The band's regularly updated homepage.
• yahoo.com More information about the movie history of Eric Rigler and Bad Haggis