Cape Breton
Kevin Dugas
Born in Inverness, Cape Breton, Kevin Dugas has been playing the great highland bagpipe for more than 30 years. Growing up he was surrounded by family and local tradition bearers who played the fiddle, piano, pipes, and step danced. Kevin was inspired musically by his Scottish and Acadian roots, and the many great traditional musicians from Inverness County. With a family history of piping and music tradition, notably among his great-grandfather’s family, Hughie Dan MacDonnell of Deepdale Road, Kevin took to the pipes at a young age. As a professional class competitive bagpiper and composer, Kevin traveled the world as a member of the 78th Highlanders Halifax Citadel Grade 1 Pipe Band for 17 years. He currently competes with the Peel Regional Police Pipe Band (grade 2) based out of Brampton, Ontario, and is an accredited solo piping and pipe band adjudicator with the Pipers and Pipe Band Society of Ontario. Some of Kevin’s influential piping mentors over the years include John MacLean, Bruce Gandy, and Alasdair Gillies. Kevin has also performed with the traditional piping group Nuallan at festivals locally and internationally including the William Kennedy Piping Festival in Armagh, Northern Ireland, the Broad Cove Scottish Concert, the East Coast Music Awards, and Ennis Trad Fest. Kevin recently moved back home to Inverness and works as a Clinical Therapist in Mental Health and Addictions.
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