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Biography
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Bobby MacLeod
Scottish accordion player (1925-1991).
Alasdair Robert Campbell MacLeod’ was born in Tobermory, Isle of Mull in 1925. He was a keen piper and was playing pibrochs by age 12. He also became an accomplished melodeon player and formed a band with other local musicians to play local dances on Mull.
Their popularity grew and by the late 1940s they decided to turn professional, playing much further a field, recording for Beltona, Parlophone & Phillips and making regular radio & TV appearances, notably ‘The White Heather Club’ as well as touring Canada, USA and in 1956 an appearance at a World Youth Fair in Moscow.
In 1958 Bobby retired from full-time musicianship and returned to the family hotel (The Mishnish) in Tobermory though other recordings followed and he invited other musicians to join him such as: Angus Cameron, Charlie Cowie, George Hill, Ian Holmes, Jim Johnstone, Fenwick MacDougall, Pibroch MacKenzie, Jimmy Ritchie, Billy Thom and two of his sons, Robert and Alasdair.
He would often play in the hotel and at occasional local gigs & functions such as The Caledonian Hotel, Oban during the Mod in the 1980's. His original compositions included ‘Murdo MacKenzie of Torridon’, ‘Finlay J MacDonald’, ‘John Robertson's Strathspey’, ‘The Lothian Waltz’, ‘Jean's Reel’ and a famous arrangement called ‘After the Games’.
Bobby MacLeod died in January 1991.
Alasdair Robert Campbell MacLeod’ was born in Tobermory, Isle of Mull in 1925. He was a keen piper and was playing pibrochs by age 12. He also became an accomplished melodeon player and formed a band with other local musicians to play local dances on Mull.
Their popularity grew and by the late 1940s they decided to turn professional, playing much further a field, recording for Beltona, Parlophone & Phillips and making regular radio & TV appearances, notably ‘The White Heather Club’ as well as touring Canada, USA and in 1956 an appearance at a World Youth Fair in Moscow.
In 1958 Bobby retired from full-time musicianship and returned to the family hotel (The Mishnish) in Tobermory though other recordings followed and he invited other musicians to join him such as: Angus Cameron, Charlie Cowie, George Hill, Ian Holmes, Jim Johnstone, Fenwick MacDougall, Pibroch MacKenzie, Jimmy Ritchie, Billy Thom and two of his sons, Robert and Alasdair.
He would often play in the hotel and at occasional local gigs & functions such as The Caledonian Hotel, Oban during the Mod in the 1980's. His original compositions included ‘Murdo MacKenzie of Torridon’, ‘Finlay J MacDonald’, ‘John Robertson's Strathspey’, ‘The Lothian Waltz’, ‘Jean's Reel’ and a famous arrangement called ‘After the Games’.
Bobby MacLeod died in January 1991.