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The fiddle in the Scottish folk music revival
Lewis born Gaelic singer and actor, Dolina MacLennan became a close friend of Norman MacCaig after she settled in Edinburgh in the late 1950s:
“I met Norman MacCaig just the week after I met Stuart MacGregor and Hamish Henderson, in 1958. Stuart took me along to Norman’s the following week. I hadn’t heard of him; at school we’d tended to concentrate on historical poets, in both languages. He played the fiddle that night, the one and only time I ever heard him play, in spite of frequent visits over the years.” (Personal communication December 2013)
In one obituary:
“The Herald remembered his multi-facedness, his love of music, both traditional (in his youth he had played the fiddle, even attempting the pibroch) and classical…” Alan Taylor in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Edinburgh, 2005) p. xxxviii
Andrew Greig, in At the Loch of the Green Corrie, wrote in 2010:
“In Scottish music, he loved pibroch, the extended high form of piping… Only late in his life did he casually mention to me he used to play the fiddle. ‘Not like Aly [Bain], but quite well. He also played the chanter, but never the pipes. Apparently he pioneered a mode of fiddle playing that took pipe tunes and m
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Hamish Macbeth (TV series)
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Synopsis
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