To begin with, they were the first-ever rock band to play with a full symphony in a live show (Concerto for Group and Orchestra in 1969). Something that has been replicated many times after.

Highland Rock Orchestra was born in 2006 from founder Donnie Wright’s life-changing experience at a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert on New Year’s Eve 1999. HRO is now an 11-member ensemble ...

Maclean had no intention of continuing the military band tradition: “I frightened everybody out of their lives by suggesting that we should have an orchestra. They said we could not do it.