The fiddler has found herself with a ban that will rule her out of the next four seasons, leaving her free, perhaps mercifully, to concentrate on the Four Seasons.
The Lochaber Kennedys have long been known in the area: his grandfather was a Highland Games athlete and his father, Ian, a fiddler.
Wine labels bearing Stanley's coat of arms are ordered, a piano, fiddler and accordion player are taken aboard, as are 39 cases of instruments, 28 chronometers, compasses and "devices for magnetical observations".
Nicola Benedetti, a young Scottish celebrity fiddler, plays a 1712 Stradivari estimated to be worth £2m ($3.3m), lent to her by a generous sponsor.
Her mother, who had to bring up nine children, had also been "a "fiddler", foraging secondhand clothes and selling on things, like chipped figurines and bits of silver, picked up in jumble sales.
Northup also established a reputation as a talented fiddler.
In March 1841 he was recruited by two men who claimed to be circus performers and offered him money to join their act as a fiddler, traveling south from New York.
A skillful medieval fiddler constantly improvised new pieces.
The pleasures of the common folk have long been associated with the fiddle, though the medieval fiddler usually played the bagpipes, sang, juggled, and told jokes as well.
They are named "fiddler" because the male holds one claw, always much larger than the other, somewhat like a violin.
In his later albums, Hulett performed both folk-punk and traditional Celtic music, often in collaboration with English fiddler Dave Swarbrick.
