SFO member - and Edinburgh Concert Administrator - Catriona McLean, had the good fortune to undertake a trip to Orkney in 2021 She reports on an interesting, SFO-related encounter whilst there. Catriona's trip to Orkney As part of my recent trip to Orkney, I took a...
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Welcome to Our New Website!
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,...
My Journey with the SFO by Jamie Mason, Son of Orchestra Founder and Conductor
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.
Scottish Fiddle Orchestra Podcast
We would love to see you at any of the six concerts we play in the UK each year – taking in some of the best concert halls across the land. Our international tours have taken us to North America, Asia and Australia.
How it all began for the SFO in Aberdeen in 1980
We would love to see you at any of the six concerts we play in the UK each year – taking in some of the best concert halls across the land. Our international tours have taken us to North America, Asia and Australia.
2020 Marks 40 Years of the SFO
We would love to see you at any of the six concerts we play in the UK each year – taking in some of the best concert halls across the land. Our international tours have taken us to North America, Asia and Australia.
SFO Podcast – A Night in Inverurie
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 Mason March Strathspey and...
SFO Concert analysed by half-time pundits
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...
A Tribute to J. Scott Skinner
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...
Singing and Dancing with the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra
Would you be up for dancing at an SFO concert? The short video below features "The Wild Rover", part of a set of Sing-Along Waltzes we like to play at a regular point in our concert programme where we invite the audience (along with some members of the orchestra) to...