John Taylor is a fiddler and composer from Buckie

Buckie

Buckie is a burgh town on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland in Moray. Buckie was the largest town in Banffshire by some thousands of inhabitants before regionalisation in 1975 removed that political division from the map of Scotland...

 in Scotland and a past winner of the Niel Gow

Niel Gow

Niel Gow was the most famous Scottish fiddler and dancie of the eighteenth century.-Biography:...

 award for Scottish fiddling. He lives in California and leads the band Hamewith. He was part of the former band Emerald that was based in Northern California in the 1980s and 1990s. He appears as a musician in the wedding scene from the movie So I Married an Axe Murderer

So I Married an Axe Murderer

So I Married an Axe Murderer is a 1993 American comedy-horror film starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis. Myers plays Charlie McKenzie, a man afraid of commitment until he meets Harriet , who works at a butcher shop and may be a serial killer...

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Taylor is well known in Scottish country dance

Scottish country dance

A Scottish country dance is a form of social dance involving groups of mixed couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns according to a predetermined choreography...

 circles having appeared in many parts of the world including the USA, Canada, New Zealand and various parts of the UK. He has recorded specific country dance music CDs with Andrew Imbrie - Steppin' Out and Live.
He has often appeared with Texas-based folk singer, Ed Miller

Ed Miller (Scottish folk musician)

Ed Miller, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland now living in Austin, Texas, is a product of the 1960s folk revival in Scotland. He moved to the United States in 1968 to complete his graduate work in Geography, and later Folklore, at the University of Texas at Austin...

 and features on many of Miller's CDs.; in a review of their first collaboration, The Edinburgh Rambler

The Edinburgh Rambler

The Edinburgh Rambler is a 1997 album by Ed Miller. -Track listing: # Home Away From Home - 3:58# The Rigs o'Rye - 4:56# The Edinburgh Rambler - 4:23...

, the Austin American-Statesman

Austin American-Statesman

The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas. It is an award-winning publication owned by Cox Enterprises. The Newspaper places focus on issues affecting Austin and the Central Texas region....

 called Taylor "brilliant". His own 2001 debut CD, After the Dance was produced by Brian McNeill

Brian McNeill

Brian McNeill is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and musical director. He was a founding member of The Battlefield Band which combined traditional celtic melodies and new material....

. A subsequent CD, The Road Ahead was also produced by McNeill. Taylor is a frequent visitor to folk music events in Texas where he is highly regarded and known for his large repertoire, and plays at many US wide festivals each year.

Albums

• After the Dance (2001) Hamilton House
• The Road Ahead (2003)

With Andrew Imbrie

• Steppin' Out (1988)
• Live (1996)

On Ed Miller CDs

• Lowlander (2000) Wellfield Music
• Manys The Fine Tale (2002) Wellfield Music

External links

• Bio Information and samples http://www.accesscom.com/~reellass/scd/musicres/jna.html