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dbpedia:Alasdair_White

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Alasdair White is a Scottish folk musician who played with the Battlefield Band as a fiddler since 2001, when he was 18 years old.White is a Scottish Gaelic speaker, and originates from Tong on the island of Lewis (in Gaelic, Eilean Leodhais) one of Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands, a geographical area where the Gaelic language and culture are of great importance to some of its native inhabitants; it is this, combined with general Scottish culture that influences White's playing style.White's chief instrument is the fiddle, of which he generally plays in a West-Highland and North-West styles; these styles being heavily derived from a culture with a rich piping tradition.

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Alasdair White White, Alasdair

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Scottish musician

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dbpedia:Battlefield_Band

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dbpedia:Battlefield_Band

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non_vocal_instrumentalist

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dbpedia:Scotland dbpedia:Lewis dbpedia:Outer_Hebrides

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dbpedia:Scottish_folk_music

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dbpedia:Fiddle