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Biography
	Stewart MacDougall is a Canadian singer/songwriter. He began his musical journey over fifty years ago in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He ventured west in 1980 and relocated in Edmonton Alberta where he continues to be one of Alberta's most diverse performers. Before pursuing a solo career in 1997 he was best known for his keyboard and vocal work with Laura Vinson, k.d. lang, Ian Tyson, and Great Western Orchestra. His songs have been recorded by all of these artists and a number of others including Sneezy Waters and Randy Travis. A later collaboration with Tyson produced the title song for Ian’s 2008 CD Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories. MacDougall’s discography includes four solo albums: Gathering Time (1999), heresay (2001), Ghost Trains (2003) and Saloons & Chandeliers (2016). The Thorniest Rose, a download single was released in January 2012. He also appears on the Alberta all-star compilation, Sorrow Bound: Hank Williams Re-Examined and The Gift, A Tribute to Ian Tyson, which features performances by various Tyson alumni and admirers. He now winters in Arizona City, Arizona and performs his unique brand of western music throughout the Valley Of The Sun.
Discography
	The Thorniest Rose (Single) - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 2012
	The Gift - A Tribute To Ian Tyson - Various Artists / Stony Plain 2007 Sorrow Bound - Hank Williams Re-Examined -Billy Cowsill, Jane Hawley, Stewart MacDougall, Tom Phillips, Tim Williams / Ruby Moon 2006 Ghost Trains - All of theSongs and Some of the Story - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 2003 Heresay - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 2001 Gathering Time - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 1999 Buffalo Ground - Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef/Centerfire 1993 Wind In The Wire - Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef/Centerfire 1991 A Truly Western Experience - k.d. lang and the reclines / Bumstead 1984 / WEA Hootch, Heartache,and Hallelujah - Laura Vinson and Red Wyng / Royalty 1981
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Video
	Cactus Swing Great Western Orchestra / /Trouble Clef / Centerfire/NFB 1995 Buffalo Ground Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef / Centerfire 1995 Railroad Corral Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef / Centerfire 1991 Great Western Overture Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef / Centerfire 1991 Hanky Panky k.d. lang and the reclines / Bumstead 1984 Polly Ann k.d. lang and the reclines / Bumstead 1984 Bopalena k.d. lang and the reclines / Bumstead 1984
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Television Appearances
	Good Morning Canada CTV / 2001) Rita and Friends (With Great Western Orchestra CBC / 1996) Country Beat Presents (With Great Western Orchestra CBC / 1994) A Thousand Reds and A Hundred Purples (Canada Week Special) (With Great Western Orchestra/Guanduong TV, P. R.C. / 1994) Country West (CBC/1986) Sun Country (CTV / 1984) The Don Herron Show (With k.d. lang and the reclines CTV / 1984)

Television Specials
	Buffalo Ground (Fearuring Great Western Orchestra / CBC / 1995) Wind In The Wire (Starring Randy Travis / Music by Great Western Orchestra / ABC / 1993) In Search Of A Cowboy Song (Music by Ian Tyson and The Chinook Arch Riders / CTV /1989) Legends of Cutting (Music by Ian Tyson and The Chinook Arch Riders / ESPN / 1988)
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Concert Highlights
	Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" Centre Pointe Theatre, "The Alberta Scene", Ottawa, Ontario / 2005 "Higher Ground'' concert for Tsunami Relief featuringStewart MacDougall and others with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB / 2005 Stewart MacDougall "Ghost Trains - All of the Songs and Some of the Story" Festival Place, Sherwood Park, AB / 2003 Stewart MacDougall and Tom Wilson, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB / 2002 Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" Jack Singer Hall, Calgary, AB / 2002 Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" Festival Place, Sherwood Park, AB / 2002 Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" The Arden Theatre, St. Albert, AB / 2002 Stewart MacDougall and others CCMA Gospel Concert, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB / 2000 Great Western Orchestra in concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra/Red Deer, AB / 1995 Great Western Orchestra in concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton, AB / 1995 Ian Tyson and The Chinook Arch Riders in concert with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra / 1989 Ian Tyson and The Chinook Arch Riders in concert with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / 1989
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Showcases
	CCMA Songwriters Cafe/Edmonton, AB / 2004 JunoFest 2004 / Edmonton AB / 2004 Alberta Showcase 2001/ Sherwood Park, AB / 2001 CCMA Songwriters Cafe/Calgary, AB / 2001 Big Valley Jamboree / Camrose, AB / 2000 & 2001 South by Southwest / Austin, Texas (With GWO) / 1993
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Major Festivals
	Heber Valley's Western Music & Cowboy Poetryb Gathering , Heber City Utah (2018) Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival (2016) Edmonton Folk Music Festival (With The Gift 2010) (Solo 2002) (Solo 1997) (With Great Western Orchestra 1991) (With Wilkie & MacDougall 1990) (With The Grand Ol' Uproar 1988) (With Jethro Burns 1987) (With Katy and Hugh Moffatt 1986) (With k.d. lang and the reclines 1984) Big Valley Jamboree (Camrose Alberta) (With The Gift 2011) Winnipeg Folk Festival (With Great Western Orchestra 1990) (With Ian Tyson and the Chinook Arch Riders 1988) Vancouver Folk Festival (With Great Western Orchestra 1990) Frostbite Music Festival /Whitehorse (With Great Western Orchestra 1992) (Withk.d. lang and the reclines 1985) Big Valley Jamboree/Craven, Saskatchewan (With Ian Tyson and the Chinook Arch Riders 1989) (With Ian Tyson and the Chinook Arch Riders 1988) (With Laura Vinson and Red Wyng 1983)
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Film
	Cactus Swing Animated short film by Salamander Films and the National Film Board . Music by Stewart MacDougall and David Wilkie. Performed by Great Western Orchestra 11,000 Year Journey A short film by Greg Coyes showing permanently at the Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture in the Provincial Museum of Alberta. Score by Stewart MacDougall and Laura Vinson. Performed by Stewart MacDougall
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Theatre
	Ghost Trains A one act play by Mansel Robinson Published by Thistledown Press in 2001 includes 8 songs by Stewart MacDougall (Lyrics by Mansel Robinson and Stewart MacDougall). Produced at Fringe Festivals in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Edmonton in 2001 following development at the Saskatchewan Spring Festival of New Plays.





	Ghost Trains / All of the Songs and Some of the Story In its usual incarnation as a stage play, Mansel Robinson's ode to romance and the Canadian railroad is delivered by his character Dougie McCrea, the narrative punctuated with his blank verse and songs written with Stewart MacDougall. This adaptation for cabaret presents the song cycle in concert with poetic vignettes from the spoken text, all performed by MacDougall, supported by four musicians and visual images created by Tim Lee. The debut performance was presented by Festival Place, Sherwood Park, Alberta, November 14, 2004
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Radio
	CKUA Live From Festival Place Host of "Live From Festival Place", a series produced and broadcast by the CKUA Radio Network featuring Alberta's top roots music performers in concert at Festival Place, in Sherwood Park, AB. / 2002
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Songwriting Credits
	Yellowhead to Yellowstone (Stewart MacDougall & Ian Tyson) (Ian Tyson/Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories/Stony Plain 2008) Busy Being Blue (Stewart MacDougall) (k.d. lang/Shadowland/Sire/WEA 1988) (k.d. lang and the reclines/ A Truly Western Experience/Bumstead/WEA 1984) Wind In The Wire (Wilkie and MacDougall) (GWO/Word From The Range A Canadian Cowboy Collection/Glenbow 1997) (Randy Travis/Wind In The Wire/Warner Bros. 1993) (Randy Travis/Forever and Ever...The Best Of/Warner Bros. 1993) (Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991) (Ian Tyson/I Outgrew The Wagon/Eastern Slope/Stony Plain 1989) Cowboy Boogie (Wilkie and MacDougall) (Randy Travis/Wind In The Wire/Warner Bros. 1993) (Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991) Cactus Swing (Wilkie and MacDougall) (Great Western Orchestra/Salamander Films/NFB/1995) (Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991) Great Western Overture (Wilkie and MacDougall) (Main Title/Wind In The Wire/ABC TV Special starring Randy Travis 1993) Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991) Buffalo Ground and Buffalo Ground Revisited (Wilkie and MacDougall) (Great Western Orchestra/Buffalo Ground/Country Beat/CBC/1995) (Buffalo Ground Great Western Orchestra/Trouble Clef/Centerfire 1993) Hanky Panky (k.d. lang/Stewart MacDougall/Gordie Matthews) (k.d. lang and the reclines/A Truly Western Experience/Bumstead/WEA 1988) Everything Money Can Buy (S. MacDougall/M. Shellard) (One Horse Blue/One Horse Blue/Savannah 1993) Zydeco Began (Stewart MacDougall) (Heresay Stewart /MacDougall/Trouble Clef 2001) (Sneezy Waters/A Letter Home/Watershed Music 1997) (Crystal Plamondon/Carpe Diem!/Avenir Disc 1993) Up To Me (Stewart MacDougall) (k.d. lang and the reclines/A Truly Western Experience/Bumstead/WEA 1988) Wrong Side Of The Hill (Stewart MacDougall) (Gathering Time Stewart MacDougall/Trouble Clef 1999) (Great Western Orchestra/Bittersweet Canada/Word Of Mouth/1992) (Wind In The Wire Great Western Orchestra/Trouble Clef/Centerfire 1991) Tickled Pink (k.d.lang/S.MacDougall/G.Matthews/D.Bjarnason/F.Scott) (k.d. lang and the reclines/A Truly Western Experience/Bumstead/WEA 1988) Hootch, Heartache and Hallelujah (Stewart MacDougall) (Laura Vinson and Red Wyng /Hootch, Heartache and Hallelujah /Royalty 1981) I'd Rather Walk (Stewart MacDougall) (Laura Vinson and Red Wyng /Hootch, Heartache and Hallelujah /Royalty 1981) Waitin For the Weekend (Stewart MacDougall and Laura Vinson) (Laura Vinson and Red Wyng /Hootch, Heartache and Hallelujah /Royalty 1981)
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The Thorniest Rose (Single) - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 2012

Sorrow Bound - Hank Williams Re-Examined -Billy Cowsill, Jane Hawley, Stewart MacDougall, Tom Phillips, Tim Williams / Ruby Moon 2006

Ghost Trains - All of theSongs and Some of the Story - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 2003

Heresay - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 2001

Gathering Time - Stewart MacDougall / Trouble Clef 1999

Buffalo Ground - Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef/Centerfire 1993

Wind In The Wire - Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef/Centerfire 1991

A Truly Western Experience - k.d. lang and the reclines / Bumstead 1984 / WEA

Hootch, Heartache,and Hallelujah - Laura Vinson and Red Wyng / Royalty 1981

Cactus Swing Great Western Orchestra / /Trouble Clef / Centerfire/NFB 1995

Buffalo Ground Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef / Centerfire 1995

Railroad Corral Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef / Centerfire 1991

Great Western Overture Great Western Orchestra / Trouble Clef / Centerfire 1991

Hanky Panky k.d. lang and the reclines / Bumstead 1984

Polly Ann k.d. lang and the reclines / Bumstead 1984

Good Morning Canada CTV / 2001)

Rita and Friends (With Great Western Orchestra CBC / 1996)

Country Beat Presents (With Great Western Orchestra CBC / 1994)

A Thousand Reds and A Hundred Purples (Canada Week Special) (With Great Western Orchestra/Guanduong TV, P. R.C. / 1994)

Country West (CBC/1986) Sun Country (CTV / 1984)

Buffalo Ground (Fearuring Great Western Orchestra / CBC / 1995)

Wind In The Wire (Starring Randy Travis / Music by Great Western Orchestra / ABC / 1993)

In Search Of A Cowboy Song (Music by Ian Tyson and The Chinook Arch Riders / CTV /1989)

Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" Centre Pointe Theatre, "The Alberta Scene", Ottawa, Ontario / 2005

Stewart MacDougall "Ghost Trains - All of the Songs and Some of the Story" Festival Place, Sherwood Park, AB / 2003

Stewart MacDougall and Tom Wilson, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB / 2002

Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" Jack Singer Hall, Calgary, AB / 2002

Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" Festival Place, Sherwood Park, AB / 2002

Stewart MacDougall and others "The Gift" The Arden Theatre, St. Albert, AB / 2002

Stewart MacDougall and others CCMA Gospel Concert, Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB / 2000

Great Western Orchestra in concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra/Red Deer, AB / 1995

Great Western Orchestra in concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton, AB / 1995

Ian Tyson and The Chinook Arch Riders in concert with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra / 1989

Ian Tyson and The Chinook Arch Riders in concert with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / 1989

CCMA Songwriters Cafe/Edmonton, AB / 2004

JunoFest 2004 / Edmonton AB / 2004

Alberta Showcase 2001/ Sherwood Park, AB / 2001

CCMA Songwriters Cafe/Calgary, AB / 2001

Big Valley Jamboree / Camrose, AB / 2000 & 2001

Edmonton Folk Music Festival

(With The Grand Ol' Uproar 1988)

(With Jethro Burns 1987)

(With Katy and Hugh Moffatt 1986)

Winnipeg Folk Festival

(With Great Western Orchestra 1990)

Vancouver Folk Festival

(With Great Western Orchestra 1990)

Frostbite Music Festival /Whitehorse

(With Great Western Orchestra 1992)

Big Valley Jamboree/Craven, Saskatchewan

(With Ian Tyson and the Chinook Arch Riders 1989)

(With Ian Tyson and the Chinook Arch Riders 1988)

Cactus Swing

Animated short film by Salamander Films and the National Film Board . Music by Stewart MacDougall and David Wilkie. Performed by Great Western Orchestra

11,000 Year Journey

Ghost Trains

Ghost Trains / All of the Songs and Some of the Story

CKUA Live From Festival Place

Yellowhead to Yellowstone (Stewart MacDougall & Ian Tyson)

(Ian Tyson/Yellowhead to Yellowstone and Other Love Stories/Stony Plain 2008)

Busy Being Blue (Stewart MacDougall)

(k.d. lang/Shadowland/Sire/WEA 1988)

(k.d. lang and the reclines/ A Truly Western Experience/Bumstead/WEA 1984)

Wind In The Wire (Wilkie and MacDougall)

(GWO/Word From The Range A Canadian Cowboy Collection/Glenbow 1997)

(Randy Travis/Wind In The Wire/Warner Bros. 1993)

(Randy Travis/Forever and Ever...The Best Of/Warner Bros. 1993)

(Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991)

(Ian Tyson/I Outgrew The Wagon/Eastern Slope/Stony Plain 1989)

Cowboy Boogie (Wilkie and MacDougall)

(Randy Travis/Wind In The Wire/Warner Bros. 1993)

(Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991)

Cactus Swing (Wilkie and MacDougall)

(Great Western Orchestra/Salamander Films/NFB/1995)

(Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991)

Great Western Overture (Wilkie and MacDougall)

(Main Title/Wind In The Wire/ABC TV Special starring Randy Travis 1993)

Great Western Orchestra/Wind In The Wire/ Trouble Clef /Centerfire 1991)

Buffalo Ground and Buffalo Ground Revisited (Wilkie and MacDougall)

(Great Western Orchestra/Buffalo Ground/Country Beat/CBC/1995)