Alasdair Fraser

Alasdair Fraser is one of Scotland's most influential tradition-rooted fiddlers. After emigrating to California in the 1980s, he became a two-time winner of the open competition of the Scottish National Fiddle Championship, and has since spent his career studying and expanding the musical traditions of his homeland through various performances, solo albums, and highly regarded collaborations with longtime pianist Paul Machlis and his band Skydance, among others. Beginning in the early 2000s, Fraser and American cellist Natalie Haas formed a musical partnership that yielded cri...