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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 ...
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. [1] It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and ...
The bladder fiddle was a folk instrument used throughout Europe and in the Americas. The instrument was originally a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick, one or more thick gut strings, and a pig's-bladder resonator. It was bowed with either a notched stick or a horsehair bow. [1]
An Ubhal as Àirde (The Highest Apple)" by Runrig made history by becoming the first song to be sung in Scottish Gaelic to chart on the UK Singles Charts, [39] peaking at number eighteen on the UK Singles Charts. [40] It also became a top five single for the band in Scotland, debuting at number three on the Scottish Singles Charts. [41]
Cover of John Playford's Collection of original Scotch-tunes, (full of the highland humours) for the violin (1700). In Scotland the earliest printed collection of secular music was by publisher John Forbes, produced in Aberdeen in 1662 as Songs and Fancies: to Thre, Foure, or Five Partes, both Apt for Voices and Viols.
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The Glenlivet has been crafting noteworthy malt for upwards of 200 years. And along the way the Speyside distillery has collected countless accolades and amassed a U.S. following greater than any ...
Many a liquor connoisseur has compared it to the high-end Grey Goose — in part because it's made in the same distillery — but get this: It outranks the higher-end brand in most face-offs.