Rory Macdonald

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Rory Macdonald

voc, b, *1949 GB
Musician of Rock, Folk and World
A.k.a. Roderick Macdonald

Roderick (Rory) Macdonald (born 26 July 1949, North Uist, Scotland[1]) is the bassist of the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig, as well as their primary songwriter with his younger brother, Calum Macdonald. Rory tends to write the melody, and Calum the lyrics. Since former lead singer Donnie Munro left the band in 1997, Rory has taken lead vocal duties on songs in the band's catalogue written in the Scots Gaelic language, as the band's new lead singer, Bruce Guthro, is not a Gaelic speaker. In the mid to the late sixties, Rory was a part of a band called The Skyvers. Rory previously attended the Glasgow School of Art and had a promising career as a graphic designer until Runrig went 'professional'. Later putting these skills into practise, he designed the sleeve notes for Runrig's Recovery and Heartland albums.

Instruments

Vocals
Bass
Acoustic guitar
Accordion
Backing Vocals

Genres

Rock
Folk
World

Plays With

C / And / R

Runrig

The Band From Rockall

Band Members

External Links

Wikipedia

Discogs

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Acknowledgements

To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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