Statue of Niel Gow, Fiddler, Dunkeld
Posted in History, Music at 12:00 on 18 July 2022
We’ve been to Dunkeld many times but had never noticed this statue before last November. Mind you it’s on the Birnam side of the River Tay which we don’t often frequent. It also seems to have been commissioned reasonably recently.
Information plaque:-
Gow was apparently the most famous Scottish fiddler of the eighteenth century.
He was even painted by Sir Henry Raeburn:-
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Tags: Birnam, Dunkeld, Fiddler, Henry Raeburn, Niel Gow, Rivert Tay


