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  2. Scottish fiddling - Wikipedia

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    The Cape Breton style of fiddle music is related to these styles of music, the Cape Bretoners having come from the Highlands to Nova Scotia in the 1700s. West coast fiddlers include Angus Grant (Senior), Iain MacFarlane (Glenfinnan), Archie MacAlistair (Campbeltown), Alasdair White (Lewis), Allan Henderson (Mallaig), Eilidh Shaw (Taynuilt) and ...

  3. John M. Mason (musician) - Wikipedia

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    John Mason, Conductor. John M. Mason, MBE (21 January 1940 – 22 January 2011) was a Scottish solicitor, musician, composer and conductor.He was the co-founder, musical director, and conductor of the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra from its creation in 1980 until his death in 2011.

  4. Tom Anderson (fiddler) - Wikipedia

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    He'd collected music intensively for twenty five years, and had edited a musical collection for Shetland Folk Society. [7] From 1970 Anderson campaigned to have the fiddle taught in Shetland schools as part of the curriculum and, when successful. he became to first official fiddle teacher in the Shetland school system. [1]

  5. Alasdair Fraser - Wikipedia

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    Adept in various Scottish idioms, in recent years, with cellist Natalie Haas, he has helped reconstruct and revive the Scottish tradition of playing traditional music on violin and cello ("wee fiddle" and "big fiddle"). [2] [3] Fraser lives near Grass Valley, California with his wife and two sons. [4] [5]

  6. William Marshall (Scottish composer) - Wikipedia

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    William Marshall (27 December 1748 – 29 May 1833) is regarded as one of the greatest composers of Scottish fiddle music. Marshall was born in Fochabers, Scotland. He entered the service of the Duke of Gordon, eventually becoming the factor to the Gordon Estate. James Hunter's The Fiddle Music of Scotland credits Marshall with writing 257 ...

  7. Hector MacAndrew - Wikipedia

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    When I met this man and heard him play, I knew I was in the presence of Scottish history." [4] MacAndrew was an expert in the playing of pipe music on the fiddle. He had many friends among the piping community, men who admired his approach to "their" tunes. Of contemporary pipers he particularly admired G. S. McLennan, Angus Mackay and William ...

  8. David Johnson (Scottish composer) - Wikipedia

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    Scottish Fiddle Music in the 18th Century followed in 1984, and in it Johnson brought his own editions of a wealth of important works for fiddle, and provided historical commentary and context. A further collection of 27 editions was published in 2000 as Chamber Music of Eighteenth-century Scotland, as part of the Musica Scotica series. Johnson ...

  9. Muriel Johnstone - Wikipedia

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    Throughout her life, Johnstone has been involved in Scottish traditional music in particular playing for dancing. She was invited to play at the annual Summer school of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) starting in 1975 and was the youngest ever accompanist at that stage.