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Genres
  
Folk

Labels
  
Greentrax

Genre
  
Folk music

Years active
  
1991–present

Website
  
Fiddlers Bid

Record label
  
Greentrax Recordings

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Past members
  
Michael Ferrie - Fiddle,Davie Keith - Piano,Steve Yarrington - Guitar,Dave Coles - Bass

Origin
  
Shetland, United Kingdom (1991)

Albums
  
Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer, Naked & Bare, Hamnataing, All Dressed In Yellow

Members
  
Chris Stout, Kevin Henderson

Similar
  
Catriona McKay, Session A9, The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, Catriona McKay & Chris Stout, Aly Bain

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Fiddlers' Bid are a Shetland based instrumental group known for playing contemporary arrangements of traditional Shetland fiddle tunes. The seven piece line-up consists of four fiddles, acoustic guitar, bass guitar and piano/Clàrsach.

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The band have performed at some of the largest folk festivals in the world including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Festival Interceltique de Lorient and Celtic Connections, and have toured extensively including performances at Melbourne Concert Hall and Sydney Opera House.

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Several members of the band play Ewen Thomson violins

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Discography

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  • Around The World, Fiddlers’ Bid Recordings (1994)
  • Hamnataing, Greentrax (1998)
  • Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer, Greentrax (2001)
  • Naked and Bare, Greentrax (2005)
  • All Dressed in Yellow, Hairst Blinks Music (2009)

    • Awards and achievements

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  • Band members Chris Stout and Andrew Gifford have both won the Shetland Young Fiddler of the Year competition
  • Festival Interceltique de Lorient, France, Winners of “La Trophe La Bolee de Corrigans” (1994)
  • Scottish Folk Awards “Best Live Act” (2003)
  • Australian Entertainment Industry Association's Helpmann Awards nomination “Best Contemporary Music Concert Presentation” (2003)
  • Band member Catriona McKay won "Instrumentalist of the Year" in the Scots Trad Music Awards (2007)
  • Scots Trad Music Awards nomination "Best Live Act" (2005)
  • Scots Trad Music Awards nomination "Scottish Folk Band of the Year" (2007)
  • Scots Trad Music Awards winner "Album of the Year" for All Dressed in Yellow (2009)

    • Songs

    Michael's MazurkaHamnataing · 1998
    All Dressed in YellowAll Dressed In Yellow · 2009
    Da Sneck o' Da SmaalieHamnataing · 1998

    References

    Fiddlers' Bid Wikipedia
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