Bagpipes with no limits for $250

Musically qualified, award winning Bagpiper specialising in session bagpipes. Open for advice, collaboration and brainstorming! Also performer of Celtic Winds (Low Whistle, Penny Whistle etc).

Based in Glasgow, Lorne MacDougall is one of Scotland's leading innovative traditional musicians performing on a range of bagpipes and whistles. Recent times have seen him achieve an MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards Instrumentalist of the Year Nomination and previously placed 3 times in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Final. He has an Honours Degree in Scottish Music specialising in Bagpipes.

He is known for seamlessly integrating his sounds into soundtracks with highlighted credits ranging from movies like Disney Pixar’s Brave and DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon series to television shows like Doctor Who, Call the Midwife, Silent Witness and Thunderbirds Are Go. 2022 saw him pipe for the role of the Ship's Piper in Netflix' The Sea Beast. He was one of the mass bagpipers who recorded for the 2021 movie Dune for Hans Zimmer.

In 2019 he arranged and recorded the pipes for the long-running BBC Scotland sitcom Still Game for The Final Farewell show at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow.

His career has covered the wide spectrum of Scottish music from 5 years touring the USA and Europe with the established world-renowned, pioneering traditional folk band the Tannahill Weavers to having had various roles on on all releases from the masters of modern bagrock, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, being a driving force behind their music from inception.