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Scottish musician, composer and producer Donald Shaw was brought up in a small village in Argyll on the west coast of Scotland, where his love for traditional music evolved. He is perhaps best known for his work with Capercaillie - the folk band he co-founded in the 80’s who have gone on to sell over a million albums with their unique sound of Gaelic songs & contemporary arrangements. He has earned equal acclaim for his film and TV Bafta winning soundtracks, including the BBC productions ‘Scotland’s Wild Heart’, ‘Bannan’, ‘Katie Morag’ (CBeebies) and ‘Hebrides – Islands on the Edge’ (narrated by Ewan McGregor) which was nominated for the coveted Jackson Hole award. He recently provided original music for the award winning HBO series ‘Succession’. He has performed with artists like James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Nicola Benedetti, Mark Knopfler, Michael McGoldrick, Vicente Amigo, Rosanne Cash and Ornette Coleman. In 2002 scored the feature films ‘American Cousins’ and ‘One Last Chance’ and was rewarded with two Royal Television Society awards for BBC drama ‘Crowdie and Cream’ (co-composed with Charlie McKerron). His epic commission Harvest for the opening night of the Celtic Connections festival 2004 featuring 80 youth musicians won him the Scots Traditional Music Composer of the Year and his expansive score for the feature film ‘Transition’ was BAFTA nominated for Best Soundtrack. In June 2011 he was honoured by Glasgow University with a Doctorate in music.