We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA — Many people associate Scottish music with one instrument: bagpipes. But Scotland's folk tradition is so much richer and fiddler Alasdair Fraser hopes to bring that musical ...

Scottish culture was hardly the rage a few decades ago, least of all in Scotland itself. The British crown did such a fine job of stamping out Scottish icons bagpipes, kilts, step dancing that the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LEWISTON — The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra will celebrate its 40th anniversary ...

Colin McGlynn was 3 years old when he heard classical music on the car radio and announced, “I want violin.” Not long afterward, the Portsmouth boy stunned his mother by plucking out the “Star Wars” ...

Alasdair Fraser, whom the San Francisco Examiner once called “the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling,” will perform in a benefit concert this weekend presented by the Saratoga Chamber Orchestra of ...

They don't sound as brash as bagpipes, but the massed San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers is an experience not to be missed. The group will circle the Bay with its annual spring concerts next weekend in ...

The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers starring Alasdair Fraser will take the stage on May 17 at 7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Theatre, Davis, May 18 at 7 p.m. Glaser Center, Santa Rosa, and May 19 at 1 p.m.

Western Piedmont Symphony (WPS), the professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina, presents the cutting-edge Scottish fiddle and cello duo Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas on the ...

Cellist Natalie Haas was 15 years old, one year shy of legal driving age, when she started performing venues with Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser. Haas met Fraser when she was 11 while attending the ...