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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.
Menuhin was greatly impressed by his playing and his knowledge of the ins and outs of traditional Scottish fiddling and in 1974 they made a BBC television programme (Mr. Menuhin's Welcome to Blair Castle) on Scots Fiddle Music in Blair Castle, [3] where Niel Gow, the doyen of Scots fiddlers, had played regularly 200 years before. Of MacAndrew ...
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".
Catriona Macdonald (born 1969 or 1970) is a fiddler, composer, researcher, and lecturer from Shetland, located some 320 km (200 miles) north of the Scottish mainland.She is considered to be among the world's leading traditional fiddle players, and one of the top exponents of the Shetland fiddle, a branch of traditional music with clear connections to the music of Scotland, but which features ...
Music portal Fiddlers from Scotland. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ... Pages in category "Scottish fiddlers" The following 32 pages ...
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]
His passion for his work in traditional music made him well known in Scottish traditional musical circles and was recognised by the award in 1977 of an MBE. He also taught outside Shetland; his first summer school class in traditional fiddling in Stirling University was held in 1978.