Neil and Judy started playing together in 1995, after years of playing with groups as diverse and well known in their homelands as Silly Wizard in Scotland and Paradiddle in Australia. Having played at practically every Australian folk festival, they have maintained a presence in the UK too, touring most years. Here they are 15 albums later. Their Stevenson Show has taken them across Australia and to UK, New Zealand and Samoa in recent years, and other music ventures see them involved in recordings and live gigs in Australia and overseas. Judy started the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club in 1995, it still flourishes, and she has worldwide friendships in the world of Scottish fiddle playing. She started Stringmania Camp, an annual camp for string players with teachers from across the world, in 2016, and it has also gone from strength to strength. More recently, Judy started CresFest, a really successful folk and roots festival in early April each year, in the small Victorian gold-rush era town of Creswick, near Ballarat, now in its 5th year.

Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club, playing as part of the Dunedin Scottish Festival, at Dunedin’s magestic First Church on Friday the 30th of September 2005

Eric Bogle joined for fiddle club to sing his mum’s favourite song, The Roads and The Miles to Dundee. There was never a dry ee in the hoos.

Touring in NZ

Taking our shows to New Zealand became an annual thing…three people, a campervan, a fiddle, guitar and double bass…

Town Square, Padova, Italy

Every overseas trip, another opportunity…

National Folk Festival, Canberra

Every year for 20 years, we were gigging at the National….

What people are saying

“Watching Judy and Neil lead the Fiddle Club is poetry in motion! What will happen next? ”

Phil Wilson, Director, National Folk Festival, 1998

Neil Adam and Judy Turner