Strathspey Queens, by Alice Allen and Patsy Reid

Strathspey Queens

by Alice Allen and Patsy Reid

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Faisal Jewell Amazing Fiddle and Cello Covers of James Scott Skinner's Music Favorite track: The Iron Man / The Bungalow.

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1.	Athole Highlanders’ Farewell to Loch Katrine / The Cameron Highlanders / Culloden Day (The Inverness Gathering) 02:51	buy track
2.	Home Sweet Home 02:01	buy track
3.	The Iron Man / The Bungalow 02:03	buy track
4.	The Bonnie Lass o’ Bon Accord / The Marquis of Huntly’s Farewell / Timour the Tartar / The Left Handed Fiddler 04:59	buy track
5.	Glengrant / Tulchan Lodge / The Parrot (Humorous Pizzicato) 03:42	buy track
6.	Maggie Cameron / Athole Brose / The Devil in the Kitchen / Forbes Morrison 02:23	buy track
7.	The Laird o’ Thrums / Gavin McMillan / The Laird o’ Drumblair / Gladstone Reel 03:17	buy track
8.	Arthur’s Seat / Eugene Stratton / Banks 02:52	buy track
9.	Our Highland Queen / The Miller o’ Hirn / Mackenzie Fraser Reel / The Auld Wheel 03:58	buy track
10.	Goodbye Gramin / Johnie Steele / Jamie Hardie 03:58	buy track
11.	Mrs Scott Skinner / Mackenzie Hay / The Devil’s Elbow 04:11	buy track
12.	The Flower o’ the Quern 03:19	buy track
13.	The Bride’s Reel / The Spinning Wheel / Largo’s Fairy Dance 01:33	buy track

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It’s 100 years since James Scott Skinner recorded ‘The Strathspey King’ and Alice Allen (cello) and Patsy Reid (fiddle) are celebrating this milestone by releasing their own take on his last, iconic recording from London, 1922.

Each holding a first-class honours degree, Patsy and Alice are two of Scotland’s most in-demand ‘bi-lingual’ Scottish musicians. They both grew up steeped in the North East fiddle tradition, becoming effortlessly fluent in their native strathspeys, reels and airs, whilst simultaneously pursuing a hybrid musical education, achieving much sought after string technique (that Skinner himself flaunted) whist remaining true to their respective roots.

It is little known that Skinner started off his playing career accompanying tunes on the cello for dances. From Banchory herself, Alice pays homage to his published bass lines, blending and contrasting them with her own vibrant and percussive, modern accompaniment style. As the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Glenfiddich Fiddle Championship, Patsy, born in Dundee, is in her element here, returning to her fiddling origins.

Together, Alice and Patsy breathe new life into these wonderful tunes and let us hope this recording may be enjoyed by Scottish music lovers for another century.

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released May 6, 2022

Produced by Alice Allen and Patsy Reid

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Stuart Hamilton at Castlesound Studios

Sleeve design and artwork by Neal Hemingway

Front cover photography by Sarah Badman-Flook

James Scott Skinner portrait, public domain

All tunes composed or collected by James Scott Skinner and arranged by Alice Allen and Patsy Reid

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