Violet Tulloch

Violet Tulloch may be the top piano accompanist for Shetland fiddlers. Her use past due fiddler Willie Hunter led to two important albums — Departing Lewick Harbor as well as the Willie Hunter Periods — while her on-going collaborations with Aly Bain from the Boys from the Lough helped bring in world audiences towards the fiddling customs of Shetland. Furthermore to recording many albums jointly, Tulloch and Bain collaborated on two tv shows, Down House and Aly Bain and Close friends. Bain has regularly paid musical tribute to Tulloch’s impact. His 1993 debut record, First Record, included an up-tempo rendition of “Violet Tulloch’s Hornpipe” and his duo record with Phil Cunningham, The Pearl, highlighted the tune, “Violet Tulloch, Queen Of Lerwick.” The web site www.electricscotland.com described Tulloch’s performing seeing that “impeccable, unobtrusive, and supportive, ideally matched towards the moods and varieties of the fiddle music,” even though www.folkmusic.net wrote in an assessment from the Willie Hunter Periods, “accompanists (particularly pianists) usually do not end up being fully appreciated but here we’ve a complete music relationship.” Tulloch provides performed with her boy, Andy Filska, on electric guitar.