Griogair Labhruidh is a singer who performs in the Scottish Gaelic language, plays the pipes and composes both bagpipe music and Gaelic song/poetry. Griogair belongs to a West Highland piping and song tradition that has been in his family for many generations.
Griogair was brought up in Gartocharn (Loch Lomond) but on his father's side he belongs to the Labhraidh/Laouridh dynasty of North Argyll; a family of pipers, Gaelic singers and tradition bearers and he is the last in his line to have revived and kept this particular native tradition alive. His mother's family have been pipers for several generations and also belong to North Argyll reinforcing his unbreakable link to his native tradition.
Because of the many negative factors influencing the decline of the language, his native area no longer has a predominantly Gaelic speaking population, but Griogair is determined to keep his particular part in its astoundingly rich Gaelic tradition alive through his music.
Griogair has toured Europe, performed at many music festivals and regularly works with some of the most notable performers of both traditional Scottish and Irish music. He has given numerous radio and television performances in both Scotland and Ireland. Having collaborated with Irish musicians, he considers the connections between Scottish and Irish Gaelic culture to be very important and this connection features in his music.
His critically acclaimed debut album 'Dail-riata' includes some of his own material and gives a taste of the tradition that he belongs to.