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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 ...
These Scottish immigrants were primarily from Gaelic-speaking regions in the Scottish Highlands and the Outer Hebrides. Although fiddling has changed since this time in Scotland, it is widely held [who?] that the tradition of Scottish fiddle music has been better preserved in Cape Breton. While there is a similar tradition from the Irish-style ...
"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.
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.
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.
However, Burns' championing of Scottish music may have prevented the establishment of a tradition of European concert music in Scotland, which faltered towards the end of the eighteenth century. [24] From the mid-nineteenth century, classical music began a revival in Scotland, aided by the visits of Chopin and Mendelssohn in the 1840s. [49]
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]
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 ...