From his first passport through to his first album deal, National Piping Centre director Finlay MacDonald told the Sunday National about the 10 things that changed his life
I GREW up in Neilston and this is the band where I started learning to play pipes.
I would sometimes go and help my gran and spend the afternoon cooking with her. She did not play an instrument but she sang all the tunes. Gaelic was her first language so she knew a lot of Gaelic songs. I actually applied to MasterChef a few years ago and got an interview. It was the most terrifying moment of my life and I wondered what I had done. It was quite a long interview process but at the end I found out you had to be available from September to February and I had a lot of gigs lined up so I couldn’t do it.I was slightly relieved. I think my weakness would be pastry. It’s not one of my strong points.
It was a real springboard too as I met people there in 1996 that I still work with and am extremely close to. It’s been a huge part of my life and friendships. The piping centre in some ways has been a full circle thing because three years ago I got the job of director here. It’s kind of mad to think that 27 years ago I was here as a young boy getting a lesson and now I am responsible.
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