".flowing melodies with an occasional dance tune played beautifully by the best Scottish fiddler of this generation, accompanied on piano in music that inspires... ...William Marshall's melancholic 'Chapel Keithack,' coupled with William Gardiner's 'Belmont', is enough to make you weep for the wicked ways of the world."

~ Bill Compton, Sacramento News & Review and Victory Review March 2001

A note from Alasdair Fraser:

"The great treasury of Scottish fiddle music is full of beautiful melodies with enormous potential for expression, style and idiomatic language. Many of the composers were self-taught fiddlers; others honed their skills with considerable technical training. Some earned a living playing for dancing, performing in concert, teaching music, and publishing their tunes; for others, music making was consigned to the after-hours. What they shared was a passion for fiddle music-music that can instigate a whole roomful of dancing within a few beats of a driving reel, or evoke tears through the sheer beauty of an air. As participants in a living tradition, these musicians inherited the legacy of the Scottish fiddle, borrowed from it, and paid it back with interest. Their compositions honor friends, family and patrons, celebrate engineering feats, recall a special place or landmark, and capture poetic moments. They represent a 250-year continuum of tunes and idiom being passed from generation to generation."

Kevin Burke: In Concert

Natalie MacMaster:

My Roots Are Showing

Celtic Fiddle Festival: Rendezvous