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Dougie MacLean
City Halls : Grand Hall
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In 2009, it’ll be 30 years since the release of Dougie MacLean’s album Caledonia, which launched him as a solo artist after his early career as a member of the pioneering Scottish bands Silly Wizard and the Tannahill Weavers. And it was that album’s title song, of course, which made his music known to literally millions, when Frankie Miller’s version topped the Scottish charts in 1992, prompting its widespread adoption as Scotland’s unofficial national anthem.
During those first three decades, MacLean’s resonant voice, melodic craft and timelessly soulful songwriting have been heard in formats ranging from full-scale orchestra to one man and his guitar, and in covers by Kathy Mattea, Mary Black and Dolores Keane, among many others. His own most recent studio album, 2005’s Inside the Thunder, was praised by Dirty Linen as “a delectable palette of colours and moods… sometimes wistful and melancholic, and at other times blissfully uplifting and rejuvenating.”
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