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| - | <nowiki>Although the fiddle was still being played in Glengarry in the mid seventies,
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| - | the music was not the Celtic style of the past. The GS&RS was formed by Allan MacPhail
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| - | to revive the music of their ancestors - the Celtic/ Glengarry music. Allan asked some
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| - | fiddlers known to him (and related to him) and of course the wives got into the picture
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| - | as well. The group was an immediate success and played throughout our area, in the states,
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| - | and in Cape Breton where the tartan jackets are still remembered and the fiddlers’ talents
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| - | respected. Their first record sold out quickly as did the second. Their willingness and
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| - | ability to play slow airs and “church music” made them popular at the Kirking of The Tartan,
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| - | where they still play each year.
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| - | In addition, when the school board refused to sponsor the fiddle lessons at the high school,
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| - | the GS&RS stepped in and they have been doing so ever since. They sponsor a fiddle workshop
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| - | each year which attracts fiddlers from Ottawa and the states as well as our local fiddlers.
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| - | For the past several years, they have presented bursaries to budding fiddlers at G.D.H.S.
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| - | graduation and have helped out young fiddlers who went down to CB to study their Celtic style.
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| - | Other groups now play Celtic music, but it was the influence of the GS&RS which caused
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| - | the rebirth and helped promote the popularity the music now enjoys.</nowiki>
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Current revision as of 18:29, 21 January 2009
