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| | Sacramento News and Review October 17, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | What, pray tell, could be worse than dancing-dwarf music of Celtic origin--a genre turned into a malevolent Las Vegas cartoon by the likes of Irish-American dancer and choreographer Michael Flatley--shaped, and not in a nice way, by the notoriously Spartan aesthetic sensibilities of the Scots? |
 | | As evidenced on Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle, Volume One, an album he recorded with pianist Paul Machlis (who will be appearing with him on Saturday) and released on his own independent Culburnie label, Fraser has divined the lyrical heart of these songs. |
 | | Many of them had been forgotten, some of them spirited away to Nova Scotia to protect them from roving Presbyterian preachers, who would hunt down sheet music and stray fiddles to kindle their bonfires. |
| www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2002-10-17/music.asp (810 words) |
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