This article is about the musician. For the American football player, see Fred Morrison (American football). For the American inventor, see Walter Frederick Morrison.
Fred Morrison
Fred Morrison at Rudolstadt-Festival, Germany 2017
Background information
Born
1963
Instrument(s)
Bagpipes
Website
fredmorrison.com
Musical artist
Fred Morrison (born 1963 in Bishopton, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish musician and composer.[1][2][3][4] He has performed professionally on the Great Highland Bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, Border pipes, low whistle, Northumbrian Smallpipes and uilleann pipes.[3][5]
He holds the record for the most Macallan/MacCrimmon Trophies at the Lorient festival, having received the trophy ten times.[1][6] As well as his work as a solo piper, he has played with such bands as Clan Alba and Capercaillie.[7] His albums have been met with critical acclaim.[1][8][9]
In 2004 he was voted Instrumentalist of the Year in the Scots Trad Music awards.[10] He has won a number of prizes in the solo Highland Bagpipes circuit.
Morrison's tunes have become popular in the solo piping circuit and the folk scene.[citation needed] Notable are "Passing Places", respectively a lively hornpipe and a low whistle slow air inspired by train rides that Morrison made all over the UK, "Living Uist", "The Lochaber Badger" and the strathspey "Seonaidh's Tune" that he composed for his son.
Morrison is also the founder and designer of Fred Morrison Pipes,[11] a brand producing Highland bagpipes, Border pipes and Scottish small pipes.
^ abcFergus, Ewan (6 December 2012). "Fred set to pipe up for city show". Evening Times. Glasgow. p. 37.
^Mackenzie, Carol-ann (29 November 2012). "Composer to pipe up at gig". Aberdeen Evening Express. p. 12.
^ ab"Piper Fred among class line-up". Aberdeen Press and Journal. 2 May 2002. p. 6.
^"Mr. Fred Morrison - Oa Hall Of Fame". www.staloysius.org. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
^"Top piper Fred blows into town". Paisley Daily Express. 9 March 2010. p. 9.
^"Fred wins Lorient's MacCrimmon Trophy". 5 August 2019.
^McKay, Fiona (30 July 2012). "Seonaidh makes a meal of mountain charity bid". Evening Times. Glasgow. p. 16.
^"World-class piper heads for Longniddry night out". Evening News. Edinburgh. 5 December 2011. p. 17.
^Adams, Rob (27 June 2003). "Music Fred Morrison and Jamie Mcmenemy, Edinburgh folk club". The Herald. Glasgow. p. 21.
^Gilchrist, Jim (4 January 2005). "Morrison Still Doing it his Way...'I Love to See the Pipes Played in a Wild and Raunchy Kind of Way'". The Scotsman. p. 26.
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