Red Hot Chilli Pipers bring the bagpipes back to Blue Ocean Music Hall in March

The Scottish bagpipe-rock band, who sold out Salisbury Beach on their last visit, return on Wednesday, March 10, 2027.

There are not many winter nights on Salisbury Beach when a line forms outside a club. The last time the Red Hot Chilli Pipers came to town, it did: the band sold out Blue Ocean Music Hall in March 2025, and the local paper's headline summed up the night in four words, bagpipes, kilts and Queen.

Now they're coming back. Red Hot Chilli Pipers play Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury on Wednesday, March 10, 2027, at 8 p.m. The show was announced Oct. 14, and tickets are $37.22 to $48.01 through Ticketmaster. The hall holds 725, and given how the last one went, a weeknight in March won't keep this one from filling up.

If you've never seen them, the idea is simple and a little ridiculous, which is why it works. The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are a nine-piece from Scotland, formed in 2002, who play rock covers and Scottish tunes on bagpipes backed by drums, guitars and keys. They call it bagrock. A set can go from a traditional reel to a Queen singalong in the space of a few minutes.

A set can go from a traditional reel to a Queen singalong in the space of a few minutes.

The band has spent 2026 on its Back 2 the Roots world tour, behind the 2025 album Back to the Roots, with a heavy run of dates in Europe through the fall. The March swing through the U.S. Northeast includes stops in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut around the Salisbury date, so the Seacoast is getting one of the early nights of the run.

Blue Ocean is a good room for this. It's a hall right on the beach, and for a band whose whole act depends on the volume and spectacle of the pipes, that matters.

If you were there in 2025, you already know. If you weren't, this is the one weeknight in March worth driving down Route 1 for. Wear the kilt if you have one.

Sources: Red Hot Chilli Pipers — Salisbury, MA, Mar 10, 2027 — Ticketmaster (ticketmaster.com); Blue Ocean Music Hall — Ticketmaster venue page (ticketmaster.com); The Red Hot Chilli Pipers — Blue Ocean Music Hall (2025 event page) (blueoceanhall.com); Bagpipes, kilts and Queen — Newburyport Daily News (newburyportnews.com); Red Hot Chilli Pipers — Back 2 the Roots Tour 2026 (Hamburg) (hamburg-tourism.de); Blue Ocean Music Hall — Calendar (blueoceanhall.com)