In 2014, Folk at the Salmon Bothy in Portsoy held a songwriting weekend. Over the course of a weekend, enough material was created to fill a CD. The resulting CD Gaitherie was recorded that weekend. It contains a song, Ma Bonnie Bow Fiddle. It takes the form of a conversation in Doric ( the “mither tongue” of north east Scotland) with the Bow Fiddle Rock in Portknockie. It originated as a poem by Alison Skinner, who used to run Doric Ditties. It was put to music that weekend with a tune by Anne Stewart who founded The Ga’anaboot Folk, the Scottish / traditional / folk group which used to play extensively around the Buckie area and across the north east. It features Anne on vocals and guitar, Alison on melodeon and vocals and with accompaniment by Guy Burgess on fiddle.
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