Music review: Fiddlers’ Bid with Frigg
HOW best to commence a Shetland/Finnish fiddle-band double bill? “Let’s have a Bulgarian tune,” was Chris Stout’s answer, as he led off the former troupe, Fiddlers’ Bid, opening a show which saw both acts ranging majestically far and wide from their respectively rich home traditions, also encompassing tunes and influences from Estonia, Romania, Scandinavia and the US, together with classical and even heavy metal elements.