Scottish Fiddle Music

The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands: Ceol Na Fidhle--Volumes 1 and 2

Scottish Fiddlers Session Tune Book (Fiddle)

A Beautiful Scottish Evening

The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music (Fiddle)

Scottish Fiddle Music

The Scottish Folk
Fiddle Tutor

English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Fiddle Tunes (Fiddle)

The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands (Fiddle)

Scottish Traditional Fiddle

Celtic Fiddle

Irish Fiddle

Scottish Fiddle Music

Fully Rigged Aly Bain is probably one of the best-known and most significant fiddle-players in the Scottish tradition. Aly Bain was born in Lerwick, Shetland, and was taught fiddle by the famed Tom Anderson.

The Road North Alasdair Fraser. Alasdair Fraser is recognized throughout the world as one of the finest fiddle players Scotland has ever produced. Scottish Fiddle Music. Scottish Fiddle Music.

Celtic Circles Inspired by the Celtic circles of ancient Scotland, Bonnie Rideout paints a musical picture through time, joining the heavens and earth to the cycles of everyday life. Performed on Scottish fiddle with gold medal piper Eric Rigler on the Great Highland bagpipe, Scottish smallpipes and uilleann pipes. Eric did all the Bagpipe music on Braveheart and Titantic! Also accompanied by guitar, Celtic harp, viola da gamba, hammered dulcimer, bass and bodhran. Includes: North Highland tunes from The Patrick McDonald Collection, 1784, pipe marches, strathspeys, jigs and reels, laments and traditional favorites: Flo'ers o' The Forest, Gillie Calum and Prince Charlie's Farewell to Scotland.Praised by the Washington Post who says:"Time passes swiftly here, but also soulfully, elegantly and intelligently as Rideout's instrumental flair and emotional sensitivity on both fiddle and viola are consistently enhanced by her impressive scholarship. In exploring and celebrating her Scottish heritage, she unearths and unites a marvelous collection of ancient airs, reels, strathspeys and tales, adds a couple of her own tradition-steeped pieces, then arranges them all with a rare combination of thematic logic and orchestral grace. Scottish Fiddle Music.

Macpherson's Rant and Other Tales of the Scottish Fiddle the Scottish Fiddle. The fiddle has long played an important parting Scottish musical tradition. Here in MacPherson's Rant and Other Tales of the Scottish Fiddle there are stories that reflect that importance. Whether the fiddle is in the hands of the notorious Highland freebooter MacPherson or being played by a young man learning a fairy tune, these tales reflect a traditional culture that us still thriving. Some of the stories are truly ancient while others quite modern, but all show that throughout Scotland there has long been a ready audience for music made by horsehair on catgut. Today as Scottish culture continues to thrive in the face of all the modern world can throw at it we should perhaps think on what Robert Burns once aid to a friend, 'Lang may yer elbuck, jink an diddle.' In addition to introducing some of the most famous, as well as some of the lesser-known, tales of the Scottish fiddle, Stuart McHardy also examines the history of the instrument, its repertoire and the place the fiddle and the fiddler have played in Scottish culture over the centuries. The result is a lively and informative companion to one of the central elements of the Scottish musical tradition. Scottish Fiddle Music.

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