Horse ( McDonald)

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Who is Horse ( McDonald)?

Horse is iconic and utterly unique. Her voice has been described as a finely honed instrument. Her music is both moving and uplifting. With a successful career spanning over several decades, she has opened and toured with international artists such as Tina Turner, BB King, Bryan Ferry, Burt Bacarach. One of her best known songs Careful, was covered by Will Young.

she has released nine albums including, The Same Sky on Capitol and God's Home Movie on Universal, with those and various singles charting top 40. She has her own record label ‘Randan Records’.

In 2016 she had her acting debut at the National Museum of Scotland in a play of her life, ‘Careful’ debuting at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It garnered many 5 star reviews, winning the Arts award Pick of the fringe’. written with Lynn Ferguson and directed by Maggie Kinloch, it went on to successfully tour Scotland

Through the next 12 months she is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Same sky, with the band and also ‘flying solo’

She is a proud ambassador and patron

Nordoff Robbins, LGBT+ helpline, Switchboard, the Clutha trust

She has received many awards over the years, amongst those :-

the SSE Scottish music awards’ Music ambassador award for services to music.

one of The ‘Saltire society’s Outstanding women of Scotland’ 2017

Recipient of DIVAs Lifetime achievement award ‘DIVA HALL OF FAME’ 2018

#19 on the DIVA POWER LIST, 2019

#43 on the World Pride Power List 2019

What others say:

“Years of experience, technique, control and emotional history have ripened Horse's voice into a truly astonishing instrument” - The Scotsman

“A voice like folds of very rich chocolate” - Iain Banks

“Horse could sing a weather report and make it moving” - Leicester Mercury

“Her voice wraps us up like a great big duvet” - The Scotsman “One of the finest singers in Britain” - Q Magazine

REVIEW 22 11 2019

Queens Hall http://www.southsideadvertiser.biz/Horse-The-Same-Sky-30-The-Queens-Hall-Edinburgh-2019.htm?fbclid=IwAR2mUennXahlsIPCRKTtXktwVOzLzgEOJRsPTsbyQJu5S3PvVER-RXLzsA4

Images (all Kris Kesiak)

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SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS twitter.com/horsemusic FB https://www.facebook.com/HorseMcDonald/ www.linkedin.com/in/horsemcdonald

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Submitted by Horsemusic
on March 09, 2020

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