Nov 5, 2023 | Sources of Fiddle Music
Rip Van Winkle – with Fiddles? The short story “Rip Van Winkle”, by American author Washington Irving was published in 1819. Set in the Catskill Mountains, it tells the tale of a Dutch-American villager in colonial times. Rip meets enigmatic Dutchmen... 
Nov 4, 2023 | Famous Fiddlers and Composers
It was the person we will go on to discuss in this article – at least in the opinion of Robert Burns (1759 – 1796). That’s what he meant when he described William Marshall as the ‘first composer of strathspeys of the age’. (Others who were... 
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