The SFO’s Northern Nights Tour took place from 21 July to 27 July. Our main concert points included venues in Moray, Orkney and Shetland. We had planned some additional “pop-up” concerts along the way and the generally fantastic weather meant we could add in even more...
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Blair Parham – World Peace Tartan Ambassador
The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra's dynamic Conductor, Blair Parham, is renowned for his swinging kilt during concerts. The SFO is proud that Blair is also a World Peace Tartan Ambassador. It’s a tartan he often wears when on stage with the SFO. We asked Blair to explain...
SFO Thrilled by the Prospect of Northern Nights of Music and Song
The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra’s Northern Nights Tour will see us visit Moray, Orkney and Shetland over the course of a week in July 2018. For details of ticket sales and prices, please scroll to the bottom of this article. The tour commences with a concert in Elgin...
Scots Fiddle Festival 2017
The Scots Fiddle Festival (17 – 19 November 2017) is over for another year but what a fantastic weekend of music, workshops and sessions the 21st festival proved to be. Given that some of the musicians now appearing on the main stage originally attended the festival...
Campbell Smith of The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra
As set out in the SFO Newsletter for August 2017, we’re very sad to report that, on 4th August 2017, Campbell lost his battle with what he had characteristically described as "a wee touch of cancer", something with which he had several run-ins over many years....
The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra Returns to Northern Ireland
It is almost exactly 25 years ago that the SFO played its first concert in Northern Ireland. “Belfast gripped by fiddle fever” That was the headline for the occasion as reported by the Belfast Telegraph on Saturday, 31 August 1991. The piece went on: “The remarkable...
It’s Bill and Aly!
The SFO’s Bill Cook caught up with Aly Bain at Phil and Aly’s Findhorn Concert on 25 May 2016. Bill took the opportunity at half time to present Aly with a framed copy of Bill’s tune “The SFO’s Compliments to Aly Bain”, composed for the occasion of Aly’s 70th...
The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra’s Compliments To Aly Bain
To wish Aly Bain a happy 70th birthday (15 May 2016), our Leader and President, Bill Cook, has composed a Highland Barndance - 'The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra's Compliments to Aly Bain' - and here is a recording of it from the SFO's rehearsal before our Nottingham...
Two Ylas
Imagine discovering that you are not the only person in the world with your first name. For most of us, that’s not difficult to imagine at all. However, for the SFO’s principal soloist, Yla Steven, it came as bit of a shock. Yla’s name - pronounced "Eye-La" - is the...
The SFO Returns to Nottingham
The SFO returned to Nottingham for a concert in the Royal Concert Hall on 09 April 2016. Orchestra members arrived from all over the UK by car, bus, train and plane. A novel feature of our promotion of the concert was the use of advertising space on East Midlands...