User:Lornemacd/Lorne MacDougall

== ''Biography == Two time BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the year finalist, Lorne MacDougall is one of Scotland’s leading young pipers. Born and brought up in Carradale, in the piping stronghold of Kintyre Lorne was awarded a BA in Scottish Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2005 and has performed at many local and international festivals and has been involved in a number of recordings including UK Top 40 hits and albums achieving platinum disc status.

On leaving school, Lorne studied for a BA in Scottish Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, graduating with honours in 2005, one of the first graduates on the RSAMD’s piping course. He has played in Grade 1 pipe bands at world championship level from an early age joining the David Urquhart Travel Pipe Band while still at school and has also played with Glasgow Pipes and Drums and the Scottish Power Pipe Band, providing the musical arrangements for the latter competition and concert repertoire in 2005.

He has toured Scotland and Europe with his principal folk band Canterach, led by ex-Tannahill Weavers’ Ross Kennedy and Brian McNeill’s “Back of the North Wind” prequel “Baltic tae Byzantium” production. He has performed at many significant festivals including Lorient, Aviles, Celtic Connections, Mull of Kintyre, Jura, and Orkney Folk Festival and the CoOperative Cambridge Folk Festival.

A versatile musician who plays Highland bagpipes, smallpipes, Border pipes, whistles, piano and keyboards, Lorne has made frequent radio appearances, including live sessions on BBC Radio Scotland’s Travelling Folk, A Bit of a Blow and Pipeline, and as a session musician has appeared on albums including Ross Kennedy’s”Scottish Voice and Acoustic Guitar”, Brian McNeill’s “Baltic tae Byzantium”, Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller’s “In a Bleeze” and Norman MacKay’s “The Perfect Squeeze”, Alabama’s leading celtic voice Jil Chambles’s new album as well as 3 albums with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and the 2008 BBC Scotland Children in Need single “We Have a Dream”.

As a composer his tunes have featured on albums from such bands as Skerryvore, Deoch ‘n’ Dorus, Stuart Cassells, the House of Edgar Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. They have also been used in various media events such as the theme music for Sky Sport’s SPL coverage.

When not playing music he is the presenter and producer of the highly popular internet radio show PlanetPipe with Bees Nees Media in Glasgow. Working with Bees Nees means he also enjoys occasionally working on other productions including Radio Scotland’s Iain Anderson Show and various productions for BBC Alba. He also teaches with various organisations troughout Scotland such as Tarbert Academy Music Centre and the Glasgow Fiddle Workshop.

His debut album "Hello World" will be released on 1st November 2010 on Greentrax featuring supporting musicians such as Ross Kennedy, Brian McNeill, James MacKintosh, Adam Brown, Duncan Lyall, Martin Simpson, Troy McGillivray, Andy Thoburn and Siobhan Miller.