Mar 15, 2021 | Scottish Fiddle Orchestra News
2020 was The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra’s 40th anniversary year, a year we had planned to celebrate with you through our concerts, and tour North America and Canada! Instead, our orchestral family made do with a year of remote music collaboration projects,... 
Mar 15, 2021 | Scottish Fiddle Orchestra History
…variety shows and a cute three-year old… My first memories of performing date back to when Dad would put on variety shows in Wigtown and Newton Stewart and I would be put on stage with my brothers, Rognvald and Peter to do a turn. Ron and Pete were quite a duet, and... 
Mar 6, 2020 | Scottish Fiddle Orchestra History, Scottish Fiddle Orchestra Music
This podcast features snippets from the SFO’s concert at Inverurie Town Hall in September 2019. Podcast 2 – The SFO at Inverurie – September 2019 The following music and song is featured: Willie Kidd’s Welcome to Orkney (intro) – by John... 
Mar 5, 2020 | Scottish Fiddle Orchestra News
Who wants to follow in the footsteps of such renowned half-time pundits as Alan Hansen, Graeme Souness and Ron Manager? Our own Catriona MacLean, Willie Kidd and Jamie Mason subjected themselves to interrogation by SFO Chairman, Bob ‘Lineker’ Diament, during half time... 
Feb 16, 2020 | Famous Fiddlers and Composers, Scottish Fiddle Orchestra Music
James Scott Skinner (1843-1927), “The Strathspey King” was born in Banchory. He started his young musical career playing violincello for his elder brother, Sandy, and later for the celebrated Aberdeen fiddler and teacher Peter Milne. At a still early age, he became... 
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