A concert with Scottish fiddle master Alasdair Fraser will be presented as a YouTube Premiere with Live Chat on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 7:30pm EST, with a second performance on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 2:30pm. Attendance is free to the public, with donations encouraged.
The concert is part of our 2020 Balmoral Classic Online, which features the US Junior Solo Piping & Drumming Championships, also on Nov. 14, from 9:00am-5:00pm.Videos of the overall winning MSR in piping and H&J in drumming will be streamed at the beginning of the concert’s second half.
Alasdair Fraser is one of the greatest carriers of the Scottish fiddle music tradition, a fiddler whose warmly expressive playing, mastery of his instrument and deep understanding of his native music as a venerable and continually evolving art is an inspiration to generations of musicians on both sides of the Atlantic. As a fiddler, he is equally capable of playing haunting Gaelic airs & rumbustious dance tunes and of improvising endless variations on traditional themes.
Fraser’s Dawn Dance album (1996) won a North American Independent Record Distributors award, and his debut album with cellist Natalie Haas, Fire and Grace (2004), was voted Album of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards. Alasdair has worked in a variety of successful partnerships, including his duos with pianist Paul Machlis and guitarist Tony McManus and his acclaimed band Skyedance.
Alasdair has also guested with The Chieftains, The Waterboys, Itzhak Perlman and Los Angeles Master Chorale, and has appeared on innumerable broadcasts including A Prairie Home Companion and CBS TV’s Kennedy Center Honors. He has performed on film soundtracks including The Last of the Mohicans and Titanic.
Mr. Fraser, whose father was a piper, will be available for a Q&A after the Saturday Evening concert.
Link: https://balmoralschoolofpiping.org/balmoral-classic/classic-concert/