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Iain Morrison is a Scottish musician and singer/songwriter. He was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. == Career == Morrison grew up on the Isle of Lewis. He was taught to play the highland bagpipes by his father Iain M Morrison. He later learned to play guitar and developed his own style as a singer/songwriter. He was a member of the Glasgow-based band Crash My Model Car. They were signed to V2 Records in 2005 and released an album ''Ghosts & Heights''. Due to his early background in the classical music of the highland pipes (piobaireachd) he was commissioned in 2010 by the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow to write songs to form a show based on such melodies. The show, titled 'Ceol Mor/Little Music', received a 5 Star review from ''The Scotsman'' newspaper. Songs from Ceol Mor/Little Music were recorded for a feature on a radio session broadcast on the Mary Ann Kennedy show for the BBC World on 3 radio programme.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC World on 3 Radio programme )〕 He won Composer of the Year at The Scots Trad Music Awards〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Music Awards )〕 in 2010. He appeared on 3 programmes of the BBC’s TV series ''Transatlantic Sessions'' in 2011, singing 3 of his own songs alongside Bela Fleck, Danny Thompson and Jerry Douglas. He sang the part of Orpheus for Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown show〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hadestown show Glasgow. NME )〕 in Glasgow in 2011. To record ''To the Horizon, Sir'', Morrison traveled to Vermont and the home studio of producer & friend Michael Chorney (Hadestown Orchestra, Anais Mitchell, Dollar General, Justin Vernon, Ani Difranco). He returned to Scotland and completed the album with musician friends. Songs from ''To the Horizon, Sir'' were featured in a live broadcast on the Tom Morton show for BBC Radio Scotland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Radio Scotland Tom Morton show )〕 His 2015 release "Eas" is an album of songs inspired by the melodies of ancient traditional piping tunes (Piobaireachd). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iain Morrison (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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