imported>Citation bot: Added chapter-url. Removed or converted URL. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent | #UCB_Category 163/962

2025-04-28T19:54:38Z

Added chapter-url. Removed or converted URL. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent | #UCB_Category 163/962

New page

{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Angus Chisholm
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| image_size =
| landscape = 
| birth_name =
| alias =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1908|12|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia|Margaree Forks]], [[Nova Scotia]], Canada
| origin =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|3|24|1908|12|12|df=y}}
| death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
| genre =
| occupation = [[Cape Breton fiddling|Cape Breton fiddler]]
| instrument =
| years_active = 
| label =
| associated_acts =
| website = 
}}
'''Angus Chisholm''' (12 December 1908 – 24 March 1979) was a Canadian [[Cape Breton fiddling|Cape Breton fiddler]].<ref>{{cite book |last = MacGillivary |first = Allister |title = The Cape Breton Fiddler |year = 1981 |isbn =0-920336-12-4 |pages = 20 |publisher = College of Cape Breton Press }}</ref>

Chisholm was one of the first fiddlers from the island to record a commercially available album. Decca released the recording 14004 on November 18, 1934: ''Rothermarches Rant, Braes of Auchertyre, Moonlight Clog & Hennessey Hornpipes''.<ref>[http://www.78discography.com/Dec14000.htm Decca Recordings]</ref>

He was regarded as one of the world's best Celtic fiddlers. He performed on the [[John Allan Cameron]] show with the ''Cape Breton Symphony'', a group of fiddlers that included [[Winston "Scotty" Fitzgerald]], [[Jerry Holland (fiddler)|Jerry Holland]], [[Joe Cormier]], [[Wilfred Gillis]] and [[John Donald Cameron]]. The group appeared regularly on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] television on ''[[The John Allan Cameron Show]]'' and other programs.

Chisholm was born in [[Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia|Margaree Forks]], [[Cape Breton Island|Cape Breton]], Nova Scotia in 1908. He was the son of Archie Chisholm and Isabel MacLennan.<ref name="MacGillivary">{{cite book |last = MacGillivary |first = Allister |title = The Cape Breton Fiddler |year = 1981 |isbn =0-920336-12-4 |pages = 20 |publisher = College of Cape Breton Press }}</ref> His ancestor, also named Archibald Chisholm, emigrated from [[Strathglass]], Scotland, to Nova Scotia in 1809. [[Alexander William Chisholm (Canadian politician)|Alexander W. Chisholm]], M.P., was his uncle.<ref>{{cite book |last1=MacDougall |first1=John L. |title=History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia |date=1922 |page=383 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/historyofinverne00macduoft/page/382/mode/2up |access-date=21 May 2024 |chapter=The Chisholms of Forks}}</ref> He died in 1979 in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], and was laid to rest in Margaree. His early recordings have now been released on tape.

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chisholm, Angus}}
[[Category:1908 births]]
[[Category:1979 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian male violinists and fiddlers]]
[[Category:Cape Breton fiddlers]]
[[Category:Musicians from Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian male musicians]]
[[Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent]]

{{violinist-stub}}
{{Canada-musician-stub}}

Angus Chisholm - Revision history

imported>Citation bot: Added chapter-url. Removed or converted URL. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Abductive | Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent | #UCB_Category 163/962