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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 ...
Gow was born in Strathbraan, Perthshire, in 1727, as the son of John Gow and Catherine McEwan.The family moved to Inver in Perthshire when Niel was an infant. He started playing the fiddle when very young, and at age 13 received his first formal lessons from one John Cameron of Grandtully.
Metis fiddling can be described as the incorporation of First Nations, Scottish, and French-Canadian rhythms, but with a unique Metis beat. [2] David Chartrand (president of the Manitoba Métis Foundation) was interviewed in a 2006 documentary by John Barnard, and emphasizes that the Métis fiddle tradition is an oral tradition [3] which cannot be taught in school.
Participants come for one week of fiddle workshops, masterclasses, concerts, sessions and singing. It is open to all ages and levels, and participants can bring their own instruments such as fiddles, guitars and keyboards. [21] [22] Blazin' in Beauly was nominated for the Community Project of the Year at the 2019 Scots Trad Music Awards. [23]
James Scott Skinner's gravestone, Allanvale Cemetery. James Scott Skinner (5 August 1843 – 17 March 1927) was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler and composer.He is considered to be one of the most influential fiddlers in Scottish traditional music, and was known as "the Strathspey King".
"Flowers of Edinburgh" is a traditional fiddle tune, of eighteenth century Scottish lineage. It is also prominent in American fiddle , Canadian fiddle and wherever old time fiddle is cultivated. The tune is also the basis for a Morris Dance , in the Bledington style.
In the 1790s Robert Burns embarked on an attempt to produce a corpus of Scottish national songs, contributing about a third of the songs of The Scots Musical Museum. [48] Burns also collaborated with George Thomson in A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, which adapted Scottish folk songs with "classical" arrangements. However, Burns ...
Jenna Reid is a Scottish fiddle player who has been described as "...the finest fiddler in Scotland of her generation." [1] She was born and brought up in the village of Quarff, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland [2] [3] and found a fiddle in her grandmother's attic when she was nine years old and started to play it. [4]