He’s played for Madonna but now Aviemore star is on Kiwi postage stamp
When you’ve won most awards going for your musical prowess what’s left? How about joining the elite who have been featured on a globally-travelled postage stamp?
That’s the gob-smacking heights that Aviemore’s Spud the Piper has now reached.
Spud - otherwise known as Callum Fraser - has been dubbed ‘One of the wedding industry’s best known characters’ by the Scottish Wedding Directory, having been commissioned to play for so many celebrities, not least Madonna, Ashley Judd and Jamie Lee Curtis, to name but three of the host of stars he has wowed.
Accolades and awards have been collected with some regularity over the years.
But last week’s post just about floored him. A beautiful - if late - Christmas card all the way from New Zealand referred him to the envelope, just in case he’d not studied if.
Sure enough, there on the two stamps was his own fair face and his majestic piping clobber as he played in Glencoe for one special couple last summer.
He told the Strathy: “It’s like mad that they thought to do that and send me a thank you card.
“I really had to sit down!
“It nearly made me cry…”
Brooke and Ollie - he doesn’t know their surname - enclosed a loving message to him for the way he had photographed them in Glencoe last surname as they completed their elopement.
“Thank you so much for making our wedding say so special,” they wrote. “Check out the postage stamp on the envelope - thought you’d appreciate it.
It turns out that Kiwis have the right to put their own pictures on their postage stamps.
“You’re on a NZ stamp! We hope you have an excellent 2025.”
At home with his family yesterday, Callum told us: “Well the year’s certainly had an amazing start.”
