The MacGregors profile picture

The MacGregors

The MacGregors

About Me

From playing at huge shows, like the Bell Centre (13,000 people), to playing at coffee houses, The MacGregors are drawing listeners from across Canada and the world. Combining ear-catching harmonies with their mature and creative songwriting and acoustic and electric instrumentation, they create a sensation when they play. Mixed in with their live performances has been radio airplay on local and national stations. Although they are young and entering full swing into the music industry, they already have had tremendous success. They completed their first EP "Rain" when they were 12 and 13. Two songs off of that EP received recognition in the well-respected International Songwriting Competition 2003. Rachel won first place in the teen category and Alisha received an honorable mention. Rachel attended Berklee College of music on a full scholarship to their summer program. They won favorite New Artist in the Okanagan Musician Awards 2004. Alisha 15, and Rachel 17, recently finished their first full length CD, Dark Beauty. Again this year, both Alisha and Rachel are winners in the 2005 International Songwriting Competition. This time Alisha took first place and Rachel took 3rd. Alisha will be travelling to Boston to Berklee's summer program on a full scholarship. They competed against teens from around the world and the competition had 15,000 entrants in total (www.songwritingcompetition). Rachel's song Dark Beauty is also a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition (www.jlsc.com) competing against songwriters of all ages. Most recently, The MacGregors won an all expense paid tour through Music BC called "Get Outta town Tour".
Layout Created at KillerKiwi.net
The MacGregors in Switzerland!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/9/2006
Band Website: themacgregors.com
Band Members: Rachel MacGregor (Guitar, Piano, Violin, Vocals) & Alisha MacGregor (Piano, Violin, Vocals)
Influences:



Type of Label: None

My Blog

We’re Home!

Hello Everyone, We're back at home now. It's a bit chaotic around here trying to back into regular routine. We have a few shows coming up that we have to quickly rehearse for. The one approaching the ...
Posted by The MacGregors on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:05:00 PST

Holland

Hey Everyone, We're in Holland now.  We performed in Oxford a couple days ago, and had to drive through the night to Veendam for a show that we did yesterday.  The setting of the venue was e...
Posted by The MacGregors on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:18:00 PST

England

Hello Everyone! We are in England right now and we've just finished playing for the week at the Barton Court Grammer School.  It was a lot of fun, but was also very tiring!  Ive just had a m...
Posted by The MacGregors on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:38:00 PST

Europe’part 2

Hello everyone! We're in Switzerland right now. We did a house concert here last night which was a ton of fun. We're in the French part of Switzerland and so we tried out a little bit of our french, w...
Posted by The MacGregors on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:16:00 PST

The MacGregors in Europe-part 1

Hey Everyone, Alisha and I are in Rome! We had our first performance last night in this old little church. We had all sorts of english-speaking tourists pop their heads in when they heard the english ...
Posted by The MacGregors on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:32:00 PST

Happy New Year!/The MacGregors in California

Happy New Year!  Hope you had a great Christmas and we wanted to wish you all a fantastic 2007 Just to keep you touch, next week The MacGregors will travel to Anaheim, California to perform on th...
Posted by The MacGregors on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:54:00 PST

Bandcast 2006

Hey Everybody!   BANDCAST 2006 has already started and we need your votes.  Come on out to any of the following online sites and vote for us.   MySpace:  http://www.myspace.com/eq...
Posted by The MacGregors on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:42:00 PST

Get Outta Town Tour - We're home!

We've had an amazing past few days. We did a little tour of B.C. in 6 packed, crazy days. We traveled on a tour bus with 3 other bands -Vince Vaccaro, Cold Driven, and The Left. They were alot of...
Posted by The MacGregors on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:07:00 PST

MySpace!

Hey, So we've finally gotten our act together and got the MySpace account up and running. We've got some upcoming shows that everyone should check out if they're in the area. We're working on tourdate...
Posted by The MacGregors on Sat, 06 May 2006 07:13:00 PST