After four years of consistently drawing large crowds, his local fame reached a new level when his bagpipes were stolen from the pub. The pipes were never recovered, but the community came together and raised enough money to not only replace the stolen pipes, but also send David to Scotland to study with master teachers. Upon returning, David teamed up with Pete Haworth to launch Molly’s Revenge.  Over the years and a few line-up changes, the band has served as major vessel for showcasing his skills as well as his love for the music. Molly's Revenge was voted Best Band of 2005 at the Live Oak Music Festival in Santa Ynez, California and has performed nationally and internationally at the Chicago Irish Festival, the University of Hawaii Concert Series, the Ballarat Federation Tattoo in Australia, the Tamar Valley Folk Festival in Tasmania, twice at the Shanghai International Music Festival in China and most recently in 2009 at Celtic Connections in Glasgow, Scotland. Molly's Revenge was also the featured band for the Fremont Street Experience, celebrating the 100^th birthday of Las Vegas.

While performing on his own, David Brewer has been a featured soloist at Barra Feis Piping Recital in Scotland, toured nationally with Tomaseen Foley’s Celtic Christmas Show as the featured uilleann piper, been a featured highland piper with both the North State and Napa Valley Symphonies, and was a special guest of the six-time Grammy winning group The Chieftains.

Teaching:
David Brewer is not only a multi-talented performer but also an avid teacher. He is the founder of the St. Andrew’s Academy concert series; he is on faculty for the Community Music School of Santa Cruz; and he has taught at several notable workshops including the Pebble Beach Piping School and Sebastopol Celtic Music Festival. He has been a guest lecturer on bagpipe history at UC Santa Cruz. Brewer continues to teach privately; several of his students have received accolades from the National Piping Centre of Glasgow, Scotland, and others have gone on to successful solo careers.
Brewer credits much of his success to his studies in Celtic music at the Ceolas School in Scotland, and his music theory training from Cabrillo College in California, as well as to many notable teachers along the way.

Studio Musician: 
David has been contracted to play pipes, bodhran, and whistles for indie films, commercials, and most recently the PBS special on Andrew Jackson. As a solo artist, Brewer appeared three times on the Bruce Latimer Musical Variety Show aired on San Francisco television, including a special appearance on the 800th anniversary show. He has appeared as a guest artist on over a dozen studio albums of various musical styles, and has composed over 200 original tunes. He released his first solo album Living Tradition in 2004, featuring several of the tunes he has composed. David’s music is regularly aired on NPR radio.  view discography

Formal Events:
  Weddings
  Funerals                                                   
  Parties

Instruments:
  Great Highland Bagpipes 
  Scottish Smallpipes
  Border pipes
  Uilleann pipes
  Whistles
  Bodhran 

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