Bonnie Rideout: Scottish Fiddler -- Bonnie Bio

Her exceptional control when bowing, her ornamentation and her marvelously rich double-stopped drones produce an authentically moving, almost keening, sound.

~ The Scotsman, Edinburgh

Bonnie Rideout plays expressively, usually with a lovely warm tone reminiscent of Irish fiddlers.

~ Folkroots, U.K.

Rideout’s instrumental flair and emotional sensitivity on both fiddle and viola are consistently enhanced by her impressive scholarship.

~ The Washington Post

Bonnie Rideout’s fiddle work is positively poignant, just short of a sob for good times gone.

~ Keltic Fringe

BONNIE RIDEOUT, Scottish fiddle
On stages from Scotland’s Edinburgh International Festival to America’s Kennedy Center, Bonnie Rideout’s unique style of Scottish fiddling has charmed audiences across the globe. Bonnie has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR’s Performance Today, and Morning Edition. She is also consistently played on NPR’s The Thistle and Shamrock. In addition to authoring seven music books for Mel Bay Publishing Company, Bonnie has recorded over thirteen solo albums and appeared as a guest musician on dozens of CDs with Sony, BMG, Time Life, Ryco Disc, Dorian, Rounder Records, and Maggie’s Music. In 2003, she incorporated her own record label, Tulloch Music, Ltd. Her A Scottish Christmas CD became a New York Times “Top Ten Holiday Best Seller”. Its success prompted a touring show that has sold out halls across North America for over a decade. Her popular recording, Gi’Me Elbow Room received the coveted Parent’s Choice Gold Award. She has received numerous Washington Area Music Association “WAMMY” awards every year since 1994. In 2007, the Mel Bay Publishing Company credited Bonnie as one of America’s top ten most influential traditional fiddlers of the 20th century.

Ms. Rideout is the only American to hold the honor of representing Scottish fiddle music at the prestigious Edinburgh International Festival. She is the first woman to hold the national Scottish fiddle title and the youngest to have garnered the U.S. Championship, winning it for three consecutive years. Thereafter, Bonnie discontinued competing to become an adjudicator and professional recording artist and has maintained a consistently high profile in the international Celtic music scene for almost thirty years.

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