Fiddle Miscellany Vol.3

Fiddle Miscellany Vol.3 (Compiled 2010)

Another compilations of odd tracks from radio programmes, live concert recordings, LPs and CDs. This selection features some of Scotland's younger fiddlers in amongst some old hands.

01 Carmen Higgins: Mrs Scott Skinner

02 Bob Hopkirk: Lady Elspeth Campbell/The Brig o' Perth/Duntroon

03 Derek & Sarah Hoy: Missinyersel/The Olympian/Andy Coogan's Jig

04 Anna-Wendy Stevenson: Jean Mauchline/Tune for Nuala

05 Aly Bain: Herr Roloff's Farewell

06 Alasdair Fraser: Mrs. Major L. Stewart of the Island of Java/The Iron Man/Smith's a Gallant/The Forth Brig/Gillan's Reel/The Auld Wheel

07 Fochabers Fiddlers: Leaving Stoer

08 Bob Forbes: McKenzie Hay/Flowers o' Edinburgh

09 Dave Carrie: Air/Monymusk/Stumpie/Corn Rigs

10 Ron Gonnella: Weavers of Newly/Flowers of Edinburgh

11 Angus Fitchet: Lament for Will Starr/The Young King

12 The Exiles: Fiddle Tunes

13 Derek Hoy: Col Stuart of Garth/Lads of Mull

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The Legendary Angus Fitchet (1983)

The Legendary Angus Fitchet (1983)

01 Elizabeth Adair*/Donald Ian Rankine/My Dungannan Sweetheart/Shakin' of the Piggery

02 Millbank Cottage/Captain Carswell

03 My Heart Is Sair/Auld Scotch Sangs/Nameless Lassie/Annie Laurie

04 The Dancing Dustman

05 Melody for Jim McFarlane*/The Joan Blue March*

06 The Mary Smith Polka*

07 JB Milne*/Donald Stewart the Piper/Norman Whitelaw*/The Miller

08 Jack Cooper March*/John Stephen of Chance Inn*/Rhoda McFadyen*

09 Lerwick Waltz*

10 Hornpipes: Robertson's/Cooper's/College/Miss Gayton's

11 Golden Harvest*/Comps to Ian Powrie*/Lass o' Corrie's Mill/Mrs Agnes Watt

12 Scott Skinner's Cradle Song/Thrums Cairn

13 Miss Delicia Chisholm/Gay Gordons

14 Stool of Repentance/Jackson's Jig/Maids on the Green/Frost is All Over

In 1921 Angus Fitchet from Dundee was taken by his fiddler father to see James Scott Skinner perform at the Caird Hall. It changed his life and from that day he practised playing along with Skinner's 78rpm recordings. By 1931 he was recording for Beltona Records and thus began a long and successful recording and performing career. As well as his own bands, Fitchet played with many of the great musicians and bands of his day: Jimmy Shand, Will Starr, Robert Wilson, Jimmy Blue, Andy Stewart, Bobby Crowe, etc.

This album does not have much solo fiddling, disappointingly; it's very much a band recording, but it has Fitchet's spirit in it and includes many of his compositions (marked *).

Front and back covers included

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Memories of Angus Fitchet (1988) Radio broadcast

Memories of Angus Fitchet (BBC Radio Scotland, 1988)

Robbie Shepherd presents a remembrance of the late Angus Fitchet shortly after his death in May 1988, broadcast on Radio Scotland. Shepherd plays some of Fitchet's music and reminisces with three of his colleagues, Bobby Crowe, Jimmy Blue and Jack Cooper.

Angus Fitchet (1910-1988) was a fiddler from Dundee, who had along career playing the music he loved. After the second world war he joined Jimmy Shand's band, and later started his own. There was aperiod when he gave up the band and toured as a solo fiddler on shows with Will Starr (accordionist) and Robert Wilson (singer). Fitchet was loved and respected by his fellow musicians as a performer, as well as a composer. One of his compositions was played on this radio show, Lament for Will Starr, and shows his calibre as a composer, and his understanding of the idiom.

01 Kate Dalrymple (partial)

02 Petronella (partial)

03 The Dying Year (JD Michie)/The Autocrat

04 The Dunoon Barndance/Glen Caladh Castle

05 Lament for Will Starr (Fitchet)/The Young King (Skinner)

06 Sunset on the St Lawrence

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