Bundanoon is Brigadoon Saturday 5 April 2014 LOVE ‘REEL’ SCOTTISH FIDDLE MUSIC?... COME TO THE FIDDLERS’ TENT AT Brigadoon! Brigadoon fans are in for a musical treat Visitors to this year’s Brigadoon (Bundanoon Highland Gathering) on Saturday 5 April will have the chance to hear one of the world’s finest fiddlers perform. Christopher Duncan is Australian- born, but his mastery of the art of Scottish fiddle music ranks him internationally. The ARIA award-winner has been a regular performer at Brigadoon for many years, and with his wife Catherine Strutt on piano the duo have electrified audiences with their bright toe-tapping tunes and wistful melodies. Fellow musicians, Bob McInnes (from Robertson), Sarah Davies (Canberra), Dave England, Ann O’Donovan, Alan Blakelock, Brian Coward (all from Sydney) are also keen to show what fabulous music the Scots have proudly claimed as their own distinctive sound.. The musical feast takes place in what has popularly become known as The Fiddlers’ Tent, located as usual right behind Nerida Barnsley’s traditional shortbread stall. The fiddlers will be playing right throughout the day. Stop by and catch just one tune - or a whole bracket. Got a fiddle? You can join in too Visitors skilled in playing the fiddle can join the spree, or you can just pause for a sit-down among the musicians. Theres nothing quite like the Fiddlers Tent experience. Chris Duncan has mastered the unique style of playing that distinguishes the fiddle from the violin. When Chris and his friends get together at Brigadoon, the music never stops. Music that’s straight to the heart Chris and Catherine have three successful CDs to their credit – Sand O’er the Sea (his first venture into recording), Fyvie’s Embrace – The Golden Age of the Scottish Fiddle and The Red House, these last two produced by ABC Classics. This is what the formidable music critic Roger Covell had to say about Chris’s music:- “Much Scottish fiddle music is dismissed as a mere accompaniment, but some of us think that, at its best, it is indistinguishable from high art – and not only in those slow strathspeys, which were always meant to be listened to for their own sakes. “To hear this music take wing is to understand the paradox by which music strong in time-keeping qualities can also provide the listener with release from time’s constrictions. “Duncan’s fiddling is superlative in intonation and technique, with all those twiddles and extra swirls and swipes that give the fiddling line body and life.” Judges of the annual ARIA awards in 2000 awarded Chris an ARIA for Best World Music Album. The judges quoted the late Yehudi Menuhin, a classical violinist of outstanding repute, who also possessed a deep respect for the traditions of the Scottish fiddlers: ‘Their music knows no detour – it goes straight to our feet if dance we must, to our eyes if cry we must, and always directly to our hearts evoking every shade of joy, sorrow or contentment’. When you are at Bundanoon for the Highland Gathering, cock an ear to the fabulous fiddle music of Australia’s own Scottish fiddler, Chris Duncan, and his musical friends in The Fiddlers Tent.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 02:07:56 +0000
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