Tim Macdonald & Jeremy Ward are a touring Scottish fiddle duo who combine traditional fiddling with historical scholarship to create a musical experience that has been described as everything from "cutting-edge" and "metal" to "classic" and "baroque". Using period instruments and mixing High Baroque chamber music with high-energy dance tunes, their music is at times soulful and at time electrifying, but always moving.
Praised for his “athletic” and “impressive and stylistically Scottish playing” ( Dr. John Turner & Dr. Melinda Crawford ), Tim Macdonald is a regular performer, scholar, composer, and teacher of early Scottish fiddle music.
Tim was the first US National Scottish Fiddling Champion to win on a Baroque violin, and his performances with Trio Settecento , Susie Petrov , Colyn Fischer , the Bach and Beethoven Experience , and many others have taken him from New York City’s Frick Collection to the villages of Indonesia, countless country and contra dances, Scotland’s Blair Castle, and beyond. Recent projects include helping to perform Scotland’s first opera, The Gentle Shepherd , in full for the first time in over two centuries, lect