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The 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, also known as The Scottish Lion - 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band, is a pipe band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by the regiment of the same name, the Frasers became the first non-Scottish band to win the World Pipe Band Championships, in the summer of 1987. Under the direction of Pipe Major Bill Livingstone, the band is still active in the competitive pipe band arena to this day. The band has both won the North American Pipe Band Championships (held in Maxville, Ontario) and the Canadian Pipe Band Championships (held in Cambridge, Ontario)...

Andrew McLan "Andy" Fraser (3 July 1952 – 16 March 2015) was an English songwriter and bass guitarist whose career lasted over forty years and includes a notable period as one of the founding members of the rock band Free in 1968, at age 15. Rock Icon Andy Fraser had been recently honored by BMI’s 4 Million Play Club for crafting the monster rock anthem "All Right Now". Andy Fraser is best known around the world as the legendary bassist and founding member of the 70's rock band FREE, and for writing Robert Palmer’s mega-hit "Every Kinda People". For over...

Elizabeth Davidson Fraser (born August 29, 1963 in Grangemouth, Scotland) is a Scottish singer, best known for her highly unorthodox vocal work as the Cocteau Twins' lead singer. Her unique vocal stylings and abstract, indecipherable lyrics have generated much debate over the years, but she has often been circumspect on the matter when asked about it. The Cocteau Twins were signed to Ivo Watts Russel's record label 4AD and Fraser found herself contributing to Russel's 'supergroup' This Mortal Coil which showcased the talents of his stable. Her most notable performance was probably on Song to the Siren; a beautifully haunting...

Singer/songwriter Fraser Anderson joins such artists as Iron & Wine, Paul Simon and John Martyn in creating songs that are alternately lush and intimately earthy. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and currently living in France, where he is recording his third album, ‘Little Glass Box’. This hotly anticipated album will be released in the Autumn 2010 ‘Little Glass Box’ has been graced with accompaniments from the legendary Danny Thompson on double bass (John Martyn, Kate Bush, Nick Drake), Dick Pearce on trumpet (Ronnie Scott Quintet), Martin Ditcham on percussion (Sade, Mary Black) and Max Middleton on Rhodes piano (Jeff Beck, Kate...

Held every year on verdant polo grounds in Indio, California, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is many things to many people: A way to hear the best alternative music, a giant lawn party of hipsters wearing hemp sunhats, or the one place you can gawk at members of super-bands as they ride around on golf carts. For Brooke Fraser, Coachella 2009 was the event that re-awakened her desire to make music. It was April and the Wellington, New Zealand-born singer and songwriter was burnt out after completing a three-year tour supporting her second album, 2006’s Albertine, which debuted...