A Collection of Blair Douglas's Music and Songs

Manran, a book of Blair Douglas's best-loved music and songs, is published by Skye company, Macmeanmna. This publication has been eagerly anticipated and given the popularity of Blair's work, has been very well received.

This is the first music collection of Blair's to be published and among the nearly 50 compositions featured are such classics as Kate Martin's Waltz, Solus m'aigh, Nelson Mandela's Welcome to the City of Glasgow, Màiri Ruadh a' Dannsa, An Cocaire Beag and Ruith na Gaoith. Where appropriate, there are pipe settings for tunes something which will be welcomed given the growing popularity of a number Blair's compositions among solo pipers and pipe bands.

On Saint Andrew's Day (30th November 2009) at the Town House in Inverness the Highland Branch of the Saltire Society presented its award for an outstanding contribution to Highland culture to musician Blair Douglas for his composition the Gaelic Mass, An Aifreann Ghàidhlig.

The Gaelic Mass was premiered as part of the Blas Festival in St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness on 4 September. This was followed by performances on the following two days in FortWilliam and Portree. St Columba's Cathedral in Oban hosted another performance, as a closing event to the Year of Homecoming celebrations, on 30 October 2009.

  BLAIR DOUGLAS has been voted Composer of the Year in the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2008!

You can watch the whole awards ceremony on the BBC by clicking HERE

Or you can read what the papers say about the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2008 at The Scotsman Online

There's also some Photos of the Awards Ceremony which you can see by visiting the Photo Gallery section, and Video Clips in the Video section - Check out the links in the Menu above.