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Fiddlers’ Bid play fast reels with lots of energy but also slow ballads where the clarsach (Scottish harp) speaks with its soft and mellow sound. Fiddlers’ Bid is one of the many young groups from the Shetland Islands, whose repertoire is based almost entirely on the islands’ traditional music. The fiddle is always in the center of it all. Four young lads formed the group when they were in high school together and were learning how to play the fiddle, taught by some of Shetland’s most outstanding players: Willie Hunter, Artur Scott Robertson and Trevor Hunter. They developed their musical abilities during their daily long sessions, often together with their tutors. The rest of their schoolwork probably suffered from this but that is hardly something that the audience will have to worry about when they play in The Dance Hall on Saturday night. The Shetland fiddling style is very similar to the Nordic one. Often in the Shetland style the player will draw on more than one string at a time giving it a ringing effect and this is also used to emphasize notes. The rhythm section in Fiddlers’ Bid consisting of guitar, bass and piano, mainly play a subordinated role – they are there to support the four fiddles. The clarsach has brought in harmonies and sounds from the mainland. During the ten years that the band has been touring in ever-wider circles they have broadened their musical minds with material from Scotland, Ireland and Canada. But most of the songs they play are Fiddlers’ Bid originals. Fiddlers’ Bid consists of Maurice Henderson, Christopher Stout, Kevin Henderson and Andrew Gifford on fiddles, Steve Yarrington, guitar, Dave Coles, bass and Catriona McKay, clarsach and piano. | Saturday Dance Hall 22.00 |
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Fiddler´s
Bid - Scotland