Formed in 1998, Pipedown won a coveted Danny Kyle Open Stage Award at Glasgow's 2001 Celtic Connections festival. Drawing on influences from Scottish and Irish traditions and Celtic music across the world spectrum, the the band has developed a powerful and distinctive sound.
Pipedown
Axel Campbell (mandolin, mandola), from the Isle of Harris in the Western Isles, has played guitar, bass and mandolin in Edinburgh bands since settling there in 1993.
Lee Moore (bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, whistles), from Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland, has been playing since the age of eight and has played with the David Urquhart Travel Pipes and Drums and the Glasgow Pipes and Drums. Lee is also a tutor for ALP Scots Music Group.
Steve Reid (guitar), from Dunfermline in Fife, was previously guitarist with New Celeste, a rock and jazz-influenced Celtic band from Scotland, with whom he recorded two albums.
Steve Fivey (percussion) is from Denny, near Falkirk, and is the most recent member to join the band - as well as teaching at the Feisean and Gordon Gathering organisations, he is a member of the drum corps in the Scottish Gas Pipe Band (now the City of Edinburgh Pipe Band).
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