Boab,
The fiddlers of Cape Breton have the distinction of keeping the old Scottish music alive. The music of Scotland has changed a lot in the last 200 years since the Cape Bretoners left there but on this side of the pond the old stuff has thrived. The same could be said of pipe music but there are less pipers thsn fiddlers here. If one were to listen to Barry Shears or Paul MacNeil pipe people would realize what has been lost in Scotland.
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