We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

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Sometimes it takes a brash outsider to breath new life into a traditional musical genre. A case in point: Hanneke Cassel, an Oregon-born, Berklee-trained fiddler who performs at the Blackstone River ...

Since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition 10 years ago, the Scottish-Italian violinist Nicola Benedetti has had a stunningly successful career. She has performed all over the world, ...

Western Piedmont Symphony (WPS), the professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina, presents the cutting-edge Scottish fiddle and cello duo Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas on the ...

SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA — Many people associate Scottish music with one instrument: bagpipes. But Scotland's folk tradition is so much richer and fiddler Alasdair Fraser hopes to bring that musical ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - More than three weeks ago, a world-renowned Scottish musical duo were aiming to finish their tour in Portland. When they stopped to get breakfast Nov. 13, they came back to ...

TOP Scottish fiddle player Alastair Savage makes two Perthshire appearances as part of the current Scottish tour to promote his latest album ‘Secrets From The Kitty’. With a third album just released, ...

Retired Canadian Army Maj. Bruce W MacDonald is aware that Gaelic words can be difficult to pronounce. But he has a solution. “Gaelic is not something you want to take on without being drunk,” he said ...

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Cellist Natalie Haas was 15 years old, one year shy of legal driving age, when she started performing venues with Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser. Haas met Fraser when she was 11 while attending the ...