Alasdair Fraser

One of the shows to which I most look forward every year is the Guitar Summit, created and hosted every single year by our friend J.P. Cormier.

We'll be hearing from J.P. in just a few minutes, but first, let's have Tony McManus, the brilliant guitarist from Paisley, Scotland, who's made some great solo albums in addition to his work with Alistair Fraser.

We'll go to Tony's 2002 album, Kale Moore, for his medley of Lady Anne Montgomery's Reel, Eilish Brogan, and Patti Fahey's.

From there, we'll hear from J.P. himself, right after some Irish tunes from Tony McManus on The Kitchen Party Kale-y.

... [laughs] there is sort of like a sister organization in, uh, in Los Angeles area, and then we have, like, these two camps.

Um, this is all, like, all of Alasdair Fraser's kind of projects.

Okay.

Okay.

You did it

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I'm, I'm stepping into that, and into that, my, my role as a, as a teacher, my role as a leader taking over from Alasdair Fraser, who big, big kilt socks to fill in that regard.

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Now, we are going to go out today with Hayden Stern from Seattle.

He studied at the feet of the master Alasdair Fraser, who likes to call the Scottish fiery fiddle tradition, The Haggis.

This was produced by Yan Falquet of Genticorum, and it's Bomb Cyclone.

Till next time, I'm Patricia Fraser.

From their second album, Moments of Light, their first in seven years, we had a pair of traditional tunes, The Drowning at Brookless and The Miller's Maggot.

Let's hear now from fiddler Alistair Fraser from Clackmannan, Scotland, and Paul Macklis, the keyboardist and composer from Berkeley, California.

They met in 1983 when Alistair was giving a workshop in Paul's hometown and needed a pianist.

Paul volunteered, which began a 20-year musical partnership which resulted in three albums.

From 1989's The Road North, we'll hear a pair of jigs, Calliope House and the Cowboy Jig, written by Dave Richardson of Boys in the Loch, and Alistair and Paul are joined by Michiel O'Connell on guitar.

From there, we'll have a pair of original tunes from Irish concertina player Tim Collins, right after Alistair Fraser and Paul Mackless on The Kitchen Party Cayley.

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Thank you.

When you are teaching, I imagine that you're mostly working with people who are pretty established on their instrument.

I was very surprised when I first went to the string fling and I was listening to Alistair because I was a violinist, but you took all the cello players and you just basically wrote up a list of chords and said, these are the chords.

And they all knew what to do.

And I thought, wow, it would be amazing to be there even on the violin.

This week we have brand new music from a gentleman from Seattle named Hayden Stern.

He has learned fiddling from Alistair Fraser, a true master.

His new album is called The Morning Dark, and this is Boston Harbor Welcome.

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