His funeral was held at Pitlochry Church of Scotland and was attended by hundreds of pipers. On 14 December 2005, Duncan was found dead at his home in Perthshire following a long struggle with alcoholism. He arranged music for the Vale of Atholl and ScottishPower pipe bands. Compositions ĭuncan composed over one hundred tunes in his lifetime, with perhaps his most famous work, Andy Renwick's Ferret, being performed and recorded internationally.
He worked as a refuse collector and was known to scribble compositions on cigarette packets whilst at work. His work was heard at T in the Park, Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours in Canada, the Lorient festival in Brittany, where he was the two-time winner of the MacAllan Trophy and the Fleadh Cheoil in Ireland. He also incorporated the bagpipes into a rendition of AC/DC's Thunderstruck. ĭuncan created a new style of idiosyncratic bagpipe music. He was a member of the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band and also performed with the Atholl Highlanders, as well as being signed by Greentrax as a solo artist. He was a very influential piper who broke the boundaries of traditional piping music. He began composing soon afterwards, having travelled across Europe and been exposed to other traditions, especially Breton music. He attracted attention from folk bands, touring the US and Europe with the Tannahill Weavers, Wolfstone and Ceolbeg and became associated with Dougie MacLean, playing low whistle on his albums. Initially taught by his father, Gordon began his piping career at the age of 10, winning many junior competitions under the tuition of Walter Drysdale, but started to lose interest in competition piping by the age of 18, at which point he was an apprentice joiner. Jock Duncan joined the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board shortly after Duncan's birth and the family moved to Thurso then to Pitlochry. His parents were tenant farmer and bothy ballad singer Jock Duncan and Frances Duncan. Like this story? Sign up for the SAP Business Trends newsletter here.Duncan was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire on. And if BadPiper makes a keynote appearance at SAPPHIRE NOW or becomes the next TED Talk phenom, remember where you heard about him first. And it looks like he’s got the promotion thing down, influencing millions of people to buy into his unique brand of “hardcore, cranking Australian pub rock – with a Scottish instrument.”ĭoes the BadPiper change your perception about thought leadership? It certainly doesn’t have to be a white paper delivered by a guy in a tie.
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