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Nathaniel Gow's Dance Band

by Concerto Caledonia

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about

Nathaniel Gow's Dance Band
fiddle music from Scottish printed sources 1761-1823

album download includes a PDF booklet with full details and sources for the music

Traditions of fiddle music in Scotland have always been literate as well as oral, and there of hundreds of printed fiddle books going back to the middle of the 18th century. Many of the earliest collections were compiled by working musicians to show off the repertoire of their dance bands, and we named our band after Nathaniel Gow (1763-1831), son of the more famous Niel: Nathaniel’s band was the most successful in Edinburgh from the 1790s into the 1820s. We took our repertoire from a small selection of the printed sources that were available in Gow’s Scotland, and there are details of many more at www.hms.scot

credits

released February 11, 2016

Lauren MacColl, Shona Mooney, Aaron McGregor, Marie Fielding violins
Mairi Campbell viola, violin
Alison McGillivray cello
Callum Armstrong smallpipes, recorder
David McGuinness fortepiano, square piano

produced and edited by David McGuinness
recorded by Matt Parkin in Crichton Collegiate Church, Midlothian 22-23 June 2015
additional recording by Neil McDermott at Ardkinglas House
and by Steve Reid at the University of Glasgow
mixed by Matt Parkin at the Royal College of Music
mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering

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