The Edinburgh Rollick: Music from the Niel Gow Collections

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Ruckus, a dynamic shapeshifting ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to classical music, presents The Edinburgh Rollick: Music from the Niel Gow Collections, featuring Keir GoGwilt on violin. Niel Gow (b. Perthshire, 1727–1807) was eighteenth-century Scotland’s most celebrated fiddler. His son, Nathaniel, combined traditional and original dance tunes under the Gow name in six collections of strathspeys and reels. In the US, Ruckus and Keir GoGwilt bring their foot stomping, dance-forward approach to tunes from the Gow Collections of Strathspey Reels, Books 1 and 2 (1784, 1788). Gow’s dance tunes are full of the signature "Scotch snap" and rhythmic …

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