US National Fiddle Champion, Scottish Fiddle Tradition
She is the only American to represent Scottish fiddle music at the Edinburgh International Festival. She is the first woman to hold the National Scottish fiddle title. In the United States, Rideout is the youngest fiddler to win the US National Fiddle Championship, which she then defended for the next three years. She holds two degrees from the University of Michigan; one in violin performance and one in fine arts.
A Return to Ancestral and Folk Roots in Scotland
Much of Rideout's recorded output is on the Maggie's Music label run by hammered dulcimer player Maggie Sansone, who is featured on Rideout's CDs and who has been featured in the Scottish Christmas performances live, on CD and DVD.
In addition to recording, Rideout also teaches fiddle in Scotland and has adjudicated fiddle competitions at Scottish festivals throughout the United States.
Bonnie Rideout's Celtic Music CDs and a DVD
A Scottish Fiddle Collection
Bonnie Rideout presents her favorite and most requested tunes, including ancient Gaelic melodies, traditional tunes and the Highland bagpipe tune on fiddle she's become known for over the years.
A Scottish Fiddle Collection MP3 from Amazon.com
Scottish Fiddle Collection CD from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. Mrs. Gunn's Strathspey/Sweet Molly/The Wise Maid
2. Grace Hay's Delight/Dunkeld House/Mrs.McGee's Reel
3. Pipe Major William Wilson
4. Brose and Butter/Cuzle Together/Elsie Marly
5. The Seagulls of Scarba/How I Passed the Winter/
Fair John's Sister/St. Kilda Dance
6. Ghillie Callum/Highland Rant/Ryan's Rant
7. Corn Riggs/The Old Grey Cat/Ships are a' Sailing
8. Amazing Grace
9. Yell Yell
10. Soft May Morn/Islay and Kintyre /Early on a May Morning
11. The Champion of the Seas/Over the Isles to America/Pop Goes the Weasel/Rossie Castle
12. North Highland Tunes
13. Bonny Jean O' Aberdeen
14. Miss Gordon of Park/Craigellachie Lassies/The Honourable Mrs. Drummond Of Perth's Delight
15. Old Reels: Grant's Rant/Nighean Doon/The Brown-haired
Daughter/Innes of Sandsides'/Mo Chuachag Laghach/The Gentle Milkmaid/Stuart's Rant
Amazon Price: $14.98 (as of 11/10/2009) 
Scottish Inheritance
Bonnie Rideout presents the music of her mentors on this CD recorded on The Orchard label. Most of the selections had never before been recorded. Included are tunes by J. Scott Skinner (sometimes known as "the Scottish Paganini"), Ron Gonnella, Bert Murray, Arthur Scott Robertson, and some of her own compositions.
Scottish Inheritance MP3 from Amazon.com
Scottish Inheritance CD from Amazon.co.uk
Scottish Inheritance MP3 from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. Wilkie's Footrace/Aspey's Jig
2. Stirlin' March/Brig' O'Balgownie/Shepherd Tartan/Kevin's Reel
3. Calum Figheadair (Weaver Malcolm)/Rinn Mise Agus Ni Mi E a Ris
4. Happy Frank/Alick Young/The Cairngorm/The Hurricane
5. Bonny Bonnie Rideout/The Prodigy Adam/Blue Mull Sound
6. Bert Gonnella's Jig/Lizzie Duncan's Fancy/Ron Gonnella's Jig
7. Reel O' Tulloch
8. Highland Medley: Had the Lass Till I Winn at Her/Blue ...
9. Dark Wood Hornpipe/Justin's March/Thistledown/Who'll Play the Fiddle?
10. Jaumting Car Hornpipe/Paddy on the Railroad/The Flying Scotsman
11. Invergarry Castle/Sutherland Calquhoun's Jig/O as I Was Kissed ...
12. Marsail Lochinalie
Amazon Price: (as of 11/10/2009)
A Scottish Christmas
This best-selling seasonal CD features Bonnie Rideout on Scottish fiddle, Al Petteway on guitar & cittern, Maggie Sansone on hammered dulcimer, Eric Rigler (the piper on "Braveheart" soundtrack) on Highland bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes & Uilleann pipes, with Abby Newton on cello and percussion.
A Scottish Christmas MP3 from Amazon.com
A Scottish Christmas MP3 from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. O Come, O Come Emmanuel/God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman
2. Here We Come A-Wassailing/Bottom of the Punch Bowl
3. Christmas Duanag/Hark the Bonny Christ Bells
4. What Child Is This (Greensleeves)
5. Rock Thee O' Child/Christ Child's Lullaby
6. Christmas Carousing/Ale Is Dear/New Christmass
7. Da' Day Dawis/Christmas Day I' Da Moornin'
8. Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful)
9. Baloo, Lammy
10 Gloomy Winter
11. The Huntsman's Bag of Grain/Goosegirl's Song/New Year's Day
12. New Year's Day/On Christmas Night
13. Yeoman's Carol/Sound of Sleat
14. Rorate (Nativity)
15. All Sons of Adam
16. Auld Lang Syne
Amazon Price: $13.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
A Scottish Christmas- The Celebration
After Rideout's CD "A Scottish Christmas" became a best-selling success, she has hosted annual shows that play to sold-out venues across North America. The tracks on this CD come from those shows. Released in 2003.
A Scottish Christmas: The Celebration CD from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. Christmas Day in the Morning/ I Saw Three Ships/ On Christmas Night/ New Year's Day
2. Hark the Bonny Christ Church Bells/Lord of the Dance
3. Aberystwyth/ The Jolly Shepherds
4. Taladh Chriosta(The Christ Child's Lullaby)
5. Angels We Have Heard on High
6. Hogmanay, or Adieu to the Auld Year/ 12 Days Reel
7. Baloo Lammy
8. As With Gladness Men of Old
9. So Merry As We Have Been
10. Away In the Manger/O Come Divine Messiah
11. Wassail!Wassail all over the Town! or The Gloucester Wassail/We Wish You a Merry Christmas/ The Bottle of Punch
12. Cold Frosty Morning
13. Auld Lang Syne
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
A Scottish Christmas
The DVD was recorded at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, Clinton Township, Michigan on December 3, 2000 with Tony Cuffe, Jerry O'Sullivan, Paddy League, Maggie Sansone, the City of Washington Pipe Band and highland dancers Robert Mcowen and Jen Schoonover.
A Scottish Christmas Featuring Bonnie Rideout [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) from Amazon.co.uk
Amazon Price: $15.49 (as of 11/10/2009)
More Bonnie Rideout Celtic Music CDs
Scottish Reflections
This CD represents collaborations by Bonnie Rideout and other musicians on the Maggie's Music label. Bonnie Rideout, fiddle & viola; Sue Richards, Celtic harp; Hesperus: Scott Reiss, pennywhistle; Tina Chancey, viola da gamba & Grant Herreid, lute
Karen Ashbrook, wooden flute & Paul Oorts, musette accordeon; Maggie Sansone, hammered dulcimer; Paula Glendinning, Highland bagpipe; William Taylor, Wire harp (Clarech) & Gothic "bray" harp; Carolyn Anderson Surrick, viola da gamba; Bob Read, clarinet; Robin Bullock, mandolin; Connie McKenna, guitar
Scottish Reflections MP3 from Amazon.com
Scottish Reflections CD from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. MacDonald of the Isles Set
2. Seal Songs
3. The Thistle
4. Dunblane ©Charlie Glendinning
5. Unst Bridal March
6. Lamentation for the Fallen Heroes of Waterloo
7. Itchy Fingers
8. Cro Kintaile
9. The Highland Laddie
10. The Highland Laddie: variations
11. Lament For Limerick/ Lochaber No More/ Irish Lamentation
12. Gloomy Winter
13. St. Kilda Air/Jenny Nettles/St. Kilda Reel
14. Minstrel of MacDonald's
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Scottish Rant
Bonnie Rideout teams up with the City of Washington Pipe Band, one of only a handful of Grade One pipe bands in the United States. A rant is defined as "a form of boisterous and riotous merry-making." This definition is adhered to on many of the selections, including, quite naturally for a band based in the nation's capital, the "Congressional Reel Set." They prove equally adept at more soulful material such as "Amazing Grace" and "Mist Covered Mountains," the latter piece having been performed at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy.
Scottish Rant MP3 from Amazon.com
Scottish Rant MP3 from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. Asturian Reels and Jigs
2. Congressional Reel Set
3. Amazing Grace
4. Medley
5. Solo Jig and Hornpipes
6. 9/8 Marches
7. Dunblane
8. The Recruits
9. Jigs
10. Competition Set
11. Mist Covered Mountains
12. Old Reels
13. Marching Reels
14. Scotland the Brave
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Scottish Fire - Bonnie Rideout
"It doesn't take long to discover what fuels Scottish Fire, the new album by three-time fiddle champ Bonnie Rideout. Traditional reels, jigs and marches ignite Rideout's passion, often sending her bow racing across the strings in a manner that's bound to lift your spirit." - The Washington Post
Scottish Fire MP3 from Amazon.com
Scottish Fire CD from Amazon.co.uk
Scottish Fire MP3 from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. Grant's Rant / The Brown-Haired Daughter / Innes of Sandsides' / The Gentle Milkmaid / Stuart's Rant
2. The Champion of the Seas / Over the Isles to America / Pop Goes the Weasel / Rossie Castle
3. Oh Onochie O
4. Grace Hay's Delight / Dunkeld House / Mrs. McGee's Reel
5. The Highlands of Scotland / The Lowlands of Scotland /Kelo House / Miss Clementina Stewart
6. Lude's Lament
7. The Brown-Haired Lad / O My Boatman
8. Tibby Fouller O' the Glen / The Lonach Highland Fling / Miss Shepherd / Dr. Gordon Stables' Reel
9. Brose and Butter / Cuzle Together / Elsie Marly
10. What the Devil Ails You! / Loch Ness
11. The 156th Brigade at the Battle of Romani
12. Purser's Air / Fishing off Eilean Na H'airde / Drinan Jig
Amazon Price: $15.98 (as of 11/10/2009)
Gi'me Elbow Room: Folk Songs of a Scottish Childhood
Winner of the 1998 "Parents Choice" Gold Award. Rideout is joined by a children's chorus and adult performers as they share playful songs, nursery rhymes and poems of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Gi'Me Elbow Room MP3 from Amazon.com
Gi' Me Elbow Room CD from Amazon.co.uk
Gi'Me Elbow Room MP3 from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. Marching Song
2. Gi'me Me Elbow Room
3. Morrison's Jig
4. My Kingdom
5. Bobby Shafto
6. The Hen's March
7. Hiccup
8. Have You Ever Seen a Lassie
9. From a Railway Carriage
10. There Was a Wee Cooper
11. Hoky Poky
12. Hurry Burry
13. Looking Forward
14. Fiddler from Dooney
15. Hickory Dickory Dock
16. Corn Riggs
17. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
18. Wee Willie Winkie
19. Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be
20. Northwest Passage
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Kindred Spirits: A Musical Portrait Of Scotland's Women
Returning to the roots of both her family and her music, Bonnie Rideout celebrates the women of Scotland with airs, strathspeys and reels accompanied by a variety of traditional instruments.
Kindred Spirits MP3 from Amazon.com
Kindred Spirits: A Musical Portrait of Scotland's Women CD from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1 Mrs. Gunn's Strathspey / Sweet Molly / The Wise Maid
2 Miss Gordon of Park / Craigellachie Lassies / The Honourable Mrs. Drummond of Perth's Delight
3 Thogail A' Bhuntat! (To lift the potatoes) / Do Shrochadh Thoill Thu (You deserved to be hanged) / Ugi Nan Hu 'Smo Thriall Dachaidh / Air #41
4 Highland Mary or Katharine Ogie
5 O' A' The Airts / My Luve's Like A Red, Red Rose
6 Roy's Wife O' Alldivaloch / Aldavaloch or O'er The Moor Amang the Heather
7 Miss Elspeth Campbell
8 Mrs. Stewart's Strathspey / My Wife's A Drunkard / Miss Susan Cooper / Annie Shand Scott (4:49)
9 Bonny Jean of Aberdeen
10 A Bhanarach Dhonn A Chruidh (The brown milkmaid) / `Smi Gabhail An Rathaid / Hugaibh Air Nighean Donn Nam Meall-Shuil (The bewitching eyed brown maid)
11 Laoidh Rebecca (Rebecca's Hymn)
12 Kindred Spirits
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Two More Bonnie Rideout CDs
Celtic Circles
Bonnie Rideout on fiddle is joined by gold medal player Eric Rigler on Highland bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes and uillean pipes. Accompaniment is heard on guitar, Celtic harp, viola da gamba, hammered dulcimer, bass and bodhran. A whole range of Scottish music styles are presented and more music from the Patrick MacDonald Collection is featured.
Celtic Circles MP3 from Amazon.com
Celtic Circles CD from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. North Highland Tunes
3. Mary Do It Again / Cross Roads / Jig In A
4. Lament of the Death of Sor Blanca Maria
5. MacDonald, Lord of the Isles / Romance Air
6. Gillie Callum / Highland Rant / Ryan's Rant
7. Air to which Ossian is Recited
8. The Boat Hoisted the Sails / Gone to Sea
9. Bog on Lochan / Drowsy Maggie / Sleepy Maggie
10. A Mother's Lament / Aisling
11. Flo'ers O' the Forest
12. Yell Yell
13. Prince Charlie's Farewell to Scotland / Winyadepla
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Soft May Morn
While in residence at Armadale castle on Scotland's Isle of Skye, Bonnie Rideout discovered the Patrick MacDonald Collection of tunes from the North Highlands and Western Isles. She presents them in her first release.
Soft May Morn MP3 from Amazon.com
Soft May Morn CD from Amazon.co.uk
Soft May Morn MP3 from Amazon.co.uk
Tracks:
1. The Seagulls of Scarba / How I Passed the Winter / Fair John's Sister / St. Kilda Dance
3. They Stole My Wife From Me Last Night
4. Sad Is My Soul / A Doo-a-dee I Went / The Battery Rock / The Red Brook
5. My Sleep is heavy / One Day I Traveled the Moor
6. Dargo
7. Soft May Morn / Islay and Kintyre / Early on a May Morning
8. Joyful is the Crossing / Gloom Upon My Soul / Och o ro u
9. The Vale of Keppoch / Clay Port
10. Lord Reay / Ha-da-lolal / The Lad's Cairn / Hobgoblin / Gruagach
11. Rocks of the Peak / The Maid of Edin
12. Cold Night / Shriks and Cries of Woe / Noon in the Deep Blue Sky
13. The Man of Corrie / My Love is Fixed in Donald
14. I Am a Thrush of Clan Donald / My Sleep is Sound
15. Brown-Haired Maiden of the Goats / The Tower / Beloved Little Sister / Neither Shall I Go to Loch Broom
16. McIntosh's Lament
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 11/10/2009)
Bonnie Rideout and Celtic Music Links
- Bonnie Rideout's Official Website
- Learn more about Bonnie Rideout and her music, and her upcoming 2-CD project which will include performers from all over the Celtic lands and the US.
- Celtic Music: Lenses
- A listing of Celtic music lenses and video showcases by MobyD.
- Maggie's Music website
- Most of Bonnie Rideout's music can be found on the Maggie's Music label, an independent company started by hammered dulcimer player Maggie Sansone. Maggie's Music has a baker's dozen artists who play Scottish, Irish and other forms of traditional music. Maggie's hammered dulcimer playing is on six of the CDs listed in this lens.
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