Three times BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the year finalist, Lorne MacDougall is one of Scotland's leading young pipers. He was born and brought up in Carradale, in the piping stronghold of Kintyre.
On leaving school, Lorne studied for the BA Scottish Music - Piping 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 from an early age including leading bands like Scottish Power.
He has toured Scotland performing at many significant festivals including Lorient, Aviles, Celtic Connections, Mull of Kintyre, Jura, and Orkney Folk Festival, Shetland Folk Festival and the Cambridge Folk Festival.
A versatile musician who plays Highland bagpipes, smallpipes, Border pipes and whistles, Lorne is in constant demand to perform for various concerts and recordings throughout the world. He was the co-producer of all the Red Hot Chilli Pipers albums including “Bagrock to the Masses” which achieved a UK Gold disc with over 100,000 sales and the CDs have sold over 250,000 combined.
Some recent recordings include the 2008 BBC Children in Need single and is currently working on a soundtrack for the upcoming Disney Pixar movie "Brave".
He released his solo album, “Hello World” in 2010 and has formed a gigging band on the basis of it consisting of some of the most respected musicians in Scotland.
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 and he composed and performed the theme music for Sky Sport's SPL football coverage from the 2009 season to date.
He produces and presents an online piping podcast PlanetPipe and also has presented BBC Radio Scotland's Celtic Zone many times.
He also performs with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers and was a member of Bodega in 2011 until they split although now continuing to perform with the surviving members under a new, as yet untitled band.
Live Recordings