Gary West

GARY WEST is a writer, musician and broadcaster based in Edinburgh, who has spent his professional life researching, teaching, performing and promoting the cultural and musical traditions of Scotland. A former professor and head of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, he has published widely on the themes of music, heritage and folklore. He presented the specialist music programme Pipeline on BBC Radio Scotland for two decades before developing his own podcast, Enjoy Your Piping, which promotes bagpipe music on a weekly basis to over 100 nations worldwide. He serves as an external examiner at the Royal Conservatoire of  Scotland and the University of the Highlands and Islands, and in 2020 was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame.