Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, Beauly (Credit: VisitScotland/Iona Spence)
Fiddle Tune Inspiration
By Diana Mackenzie
Journey stone inspired by memories made with playing the fiddle and Fèis Rois.Image provided by Diana Mackenzie
My daughter Flora played the fiddle with the Fèis Rois fiddlers when she was a teenager, and got a lot of inspiration from that group and their tutor, Alpha Munro, but the tune on my blackhouse stone is the beginning of Aidan O'Rourke's tune Lochaber Drive, which Flora learnt from him at a weekend workshop in Dingwall - she loved that tune, and she loved Aidan O'Rourke's fiddle playing too. He was a real inspiration to her.
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