October 10–18, 2025
Iain MacDonald has long been a highly regarded figure on the Highland and Island music scene and internationally, as a piper, flautist and whistle player with Ossian, Battlefield and other bands and as a much sought after producer and teacher. One of the formidable trio of piping MacDonald brothers from Glenuig in Moidart, Iain grew up in what he describes as “a hotbed of traditional music”, with pipers, fiddlers, accordionists and singers from Moidart and beyond. A former musician-in-residence at the Gaelic college of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye, he is also a visiting tutor at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire, Limerick University and the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music in Plockton. He now lives on Benbecula, where he teaches on the Gaelic Language and Music course at Colaisde Bheinn na Faoghla, the Benbecula campus of the University of the Highlands and islands’ Lews Castle College.
| venue | Strathspey Performing Arts Centre |
| locale | Mabou |
| price | $45 |
Performers: Kenneth MacKenzie • Iain MacDonald • Allan Henderson • Mac Morin • Ingrid Henderson • Margaret Stewart • Cathy Ann MacPhee • Kris Drever • Kimberley Fraser • Mary Jane Lamond • Wendy MacIsaac • Angus MacKenzie • Shelly Campbell • Cameron MacNeil • Ruairidh Gray • Ed Woodsworth • Seonaidh MacIntyre • Harvey Beaton
