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Download a Neil Oliver Audio Walk in Kilmartin Glen to your mobile phone

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Neil OliverBBC Radio Scotland and the Open University have collaborated to produce an Audio Walk in Kilmartin Glen. The presenter is Glaswegian Neil Oliver, arguably – but who would argue? – the most galvanic historian to hit the television screen for a long time when he emerged from the team on the first series of Coast. The extent to which his personal contribution underpinned the series was recognised when he effectively became the lead presenter in the following series.

You can download and print off instructions on the walk and you can download the Audio Walk itself to your mobile phone. Argyll’s Kilmartin Glen is a site of primary archaeological and historical inportance to Scotland – as well as beng a very beautiful and mysterious glen where it’s past never seems far from the surface. This audio walk is an imaginative and mobile information source for locals and visitors alike.

The photograph of Neil Oliver above is a screenshot from the television series Coast, reproduced here under fair use conventions.

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Carradale’s Lorne MacDougall in final of Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award

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Lorne MacDougall, a young piper from Carradale on the Kintyre peninsula is one of six finalists in the Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award from BBC Radio Scotland.

Playing the small pipes and the Border pipes as well as the Highland Bagpipes, Lorne plays with the Grade 1 Scottish Power Pipe Band.

The other five finalists in this Award are:
•    Adam Holmes, singer and guitar player from Edinburgh
•    Kenneth Nicolson, gold medal winner in Gaelic singing at the National Mod
•    Daniel Thorpe, a fiddler from Inverurie
•    Ruaridh MacMillan, a fiddler from Nairn
•    Jack Smedley, a fiddler form Buckie

Lorne quite regularly features on radio programmes like BBC Scotland’s Pipeline and Travelling Folk.

UPDATE: The Winner of the Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award is Ruaridh MacMillan, the talented young fiddler from Nairn whose competition pieces were challenging and innovative.

Carradale’s Lorne MacDougall piping and talking on BBC Radio Scotland

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Lorne MacDougall from Carradale in Kintyre, a talented young piper, is in the Final of the Young Trad Musician of the Year Award which will be broadcast live on 1st February on BBC Radio Scotland. He is the only piper in the final.

Tonight (24th January), in recognition of Lorne’s achievements,  BBC Radio Scotland’s piping programme will feature Lorne in interview and playing three sets. The tunes he has chosen to play include some about Kintyre and some composed by Kintyre musicians.

Tune in tonight.

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