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Scotland has influenced Donegal fiddling in various ways. Workers from Donegal would go to Scotland in the summer and bring back Scottish tunes with them; Donegal fiddlers have used Scottish tunebooks and learned from records of Scottish fiddlers like J. Scott Skinner and Mackenzie Murdoch.
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".
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.
Fiddlers from Scotland. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Shetland fiddlers (12 P) Pages in category "Scottish fiddlers"
Hector MacAndrew (1903–1980) was a musician, composer and Scottish fiddler during the second half of the 20th century.. He was born in 1903, in a cottage on the Fyvie Castle Estate in Aberdeenshire, where his father was head gardener and piper to Lord Leith. [1]
John Taylor is a Scottish fiddler and composer from Buckie in Scotland and a past winner of the Niel Gow award for Scottish fiddling. [1] He lives in California and leads the band Hamewith. [ 2 ] He was part of the former band Emerald that was based in Northern California in the 1980s and 1990s. [ 3 ]
Ninety-five per cent of children have to leave their home when their mum goes to jail, and maternal imprisonment is thought to affect around 17,000 children each year in England and Wales.
MacKinnon, D., "'I have now a book of songs of her writing: Scottish families, orality, literacy and the transmission of musical culture c. 1500-c. 1800", in E. Ewan and J. Nugent, Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Ashgate, 2008), ISBN 0-7546-6049-4.