Over the years Dougie has been hailed as one of Scotland’s premier singer-songwriters. An exceptionally talented musician he is as accomplished on the fiddle, mandola, viola, bouzouki, banjo,


The former member of the Tannahill Weavers and Silly Wizard has also enjoyed an incredibly successful solo career recording numerous albums and creating his own record label, Dunkeld Records.


More recently, he has found renewed popularity among a reinvigorated audience


generation during the referendum debate.


Passionate about performing before live audiences, Dougie and his wife Jenny have for the last eleven years brought folk music to an ever expanding audience in the form of the ‘Perthshire Amber’ festival.


get-together for Dougie and friends has turned into a major event run over a ten-day period featuring some of the country’s top musicians.


“I was trying to get some of them to come and see Perthshire because a lot of my songs are influenced by the landscape here... I’m a country boy from this wee village and you can’t escape the fact that your surroundings would have an influence on the kind of songs that you write. It was a way to get the people to come and see the place where the songs come from,” he said.


The festival, which last year brought in more than June 2015 33


£1million to the local economy, doesn’t just incorporate music. There are also walks and talks that take people out into the landscape. Performances take place in cathedrals, castles, village halls and many other interesting venues, providing a unique musical experience.


“It gives people an opportunity to relate the music, to the place, because music is not just


with the background of what I grew up with and the way I relate to the world,” he says.


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