{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist | background = person | name = Roddy MacLeod | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=UK|size=100|MBE}} | image = | caption = | birth_name = Roderick MacLeod | alias = Roddy | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|08|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date first) --> | death_place = | genre = Pibroch | instrument = Bagpipes | years_active = {{start date|1978}}–present | current_member_of = The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland | past_member_of = Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band | awards = {{UBL |Northern Meeting |Kishmul Banner |Argyllshire Gathering |Glenfiddich Piping Championships |Bratach Gorm |Silver Chanter |Northern Meeting Clasp |Gillies Cup Open |Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award }} | website = {{URL|https://roddymacleodbagpipes.com/}} }}
'''Roderick J. (''Roddy'') MacLeod''' {{post-nominals|MBE}} (born August 26, 1962)<ref name=HOF>{{cite web |title=Roddy MacLeod MBE |url=https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/hall-of-fame/roddy-macleod-mbe/ |website=Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame |access-date=11 December 2025 |date=1 November 2012}}</ref> is a Scottish bagpiper, director of the annual Piping Live! Festival and former principal of the National Piping Centre.<ref>{{cite news |title=World's biggest piping festival underway in Glasgow |url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/14669161.worlds-biggest-piping-festival-underway-in-glasgow/ |access-date=11 December 2025 |work=Glasgow Times |date=8 August 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Augustine | first = Lalita | title = Piping Hot | newspaper = Evening Times | location = Glasgow | pages = 3 | date = August 11, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Craig |title=Bagpipers’ Olympic effort to win title |url=https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/bagpipers-olympic-effort-to-win-title-1614657 |access-date=11 December 2025 |work=The Scotsman |date=8 August 2012 |language=en}}</ref>
He is known to be vocal against Scottish reforms in the realm of piping. In 2006, when the government ordered pipers to play quietly,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zincavage |first1=David |title=Never Yet Melted » Health and Safety Inspectors Restrict Bagpipes |url=https://neveryetmelted.com/2006/08/16/health-and-safety-inspectors-restrict-bagpipes/ |access-date=11 December 2025}}</ref> and protect their ears whilst practising, he was quoted as saying; ''""If you are practising to become a serious piper, you cannot do so within these kinds of limits."''<ref>{{cite news | last = MacDonald | first = Stuart | title = Pipes of gie-us-peace; Army inspectors impose noise limits on musicians | newspaper = The Express | pages = 25 | date = July 24, 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = MacLeod | first = Murdo | title = Army pipers can't believe their ears | newspaper = Scotland on Sunday | pages = 9 | date = July 23, 2006 }}</ref>
In the same year he campaigned to introduce means-testing to acquire a busker's licence in Edinburgh.<ref>{{cite news | title = Pipers skirt fringes of musical taste | newspaper = Daily Telegraph | pages = A4 | date = August 10, 2004 }}</ref>
After speaking out against the lack of piping teachers in Scottish schools, he introduced Skype lessons in 2008 for would-be pipers as a potential solution to the problem.<ref>{{cite web |title=Individual and On-line Lessons |url=https://roddymacleodbagpipes.com/services/individual-and-on-line-lessons/ |website=Roddy MacLeod MBE |access-date=11 December 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Tweedie | first = Katrina | title = Now the Pipes on Skype are Calling; Far Flung Fans Log in for Bagpipe Lessons | newspaper = Sunday Mail | pages = 19 | date = March 20, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Cornwell | first = Tim | title = Piping centre bags new pupils with web lessons | newspaper = The Scotsman | pages = 14 | date = May 27, 2008 }}</ref> He also suggested that the chanter replace the recorder in primary schools.<ref>{{cite news | last = Brown | first = Craig | title = Schools are Urged to Adopt Chanter | newspaper = The Scotsman | pages = 16 | date = June 21, 2005 }}</ref>
He is a ten-time winner of the Piobaireachd at the Glenfiddich Solo Piping Championship; a record, and has won the overall title five times.<ref>{{cite web |title=Roddy MacLeod: 2016 Glenfiddich Champion|url=https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/roddy-macleod-2016-glenfiddich-champion/ |website=pipes{{!}}drums |access-date=11 December 2025 |date=30 October 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Forsyth |first1=Laura |title=Glasgow man Roddy MacLeod is crowned 2016 Glenfiddich Piping Champion |url=https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/14832185.glasgow-man-roddy-macleod-is-crowned-2016-glenfiddich-piping-champion/ |access-date=11 December 2025 |work=Glasgow Times |date=30 October 2016 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1995, he became the Pipe Major of the ScottishPower Pipe Band and served until 2006 and in 2012 he was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite news | last = Gilchrist | first = Jim | title = Music review : Folk, Jazz Etc : Traditional Values | newspaper = The Scotsman | pages = 6 | date = December 6, 2012 }}</ref>
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