Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship 2015 winner from Aberdeenshire, George Davidson, accompanied by Mo Rutherford on piano performs Farewell to St. Kilda, Pipe Major William Grays’ Farewell to the Glasgow Police, The Duke of Gordon’s Birthday and Mrs Major L Stewart’s Reel of the Island of Java live at Blair Castle in Blair Atholl.
On 30 October 2016, seventeen of the twenty Glenfiddich Fiddle Champions returned to Blair Castle for a unique and memorable ‘festival of champions’ to celebrate the legacy of this very special competition. They were joined by US fiddler, Tim MacDonald who had already secured an invitation to compete had the Championship continued that year.
This celebration event provided a memorable finale to the Championship, following the decision by the William Grant Foundation to discontinue the event in order to support Scottish music in new ways in future.
A full recording of the event is available to stream online from TRADtv: http://tradtv.scot/live/glenfiddich-fiddle-championship
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