• If you are new to the life and music of James Scott Skinner, I hope you find something to interest you in the blogs – he was a very interesting man.
  • James Scott Skinner (5 August 1843 – 17 March 1927) was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler and composer.
  • The latter tune was written in honor of James Scott Skinner. James Scott Skinner was not a piper but has made a notable impact on bagpipe music.
  • They got on so well that James adopted ‘Scott’ as part of his professional name, calling himself J. Scott Skinner.
  • “Talent does what it can; genius what it must!” A spot of light reading from the self-styled “Strathspey King,” James Scott Skinner.
  • James Scott Skinner is considered one of the most influential fiddlers in Scottish traditional music. He came to be known as the 'Strathspey King'.
  • james-scott-skinner. Stuart Eydmann wrote the following in December 2015 as part of a dialogue with fiddle researcher Ronnie Gibson
  • James Scott Skinner (1843-1927) was a famous Scottish fiddler and composer who played with a definitive classical style that influenced contemporary and...
  • James Scott Skinner (1843-1927), the self-styled Strathspey King, was the leading performer of Scottish fiddle music in his day.
  • Well, “Stand up James!” Scott Skinner started as a fiddler, of course (he was Scottish, after all). His studies began under his older brother when he was only six...