James Scott Skinner was a British dancer, born in 1843 in Banchory, who died in 1927.
Biography
James Scott Skinner (5 August 1843 – 17 March 1927) was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler and composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential fiddlers in Scottish traditional music, and was known as "the Strathspey King".
From the Wikipedia article “James Scott Skinner”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Contemporaries
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