Gow Fiddle Festival takes place in Dunkeld and Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. It was established in 2004 to celebrate the life and music of Gow, including a fund raising campaign to erect a fitting memorial to him in Dunkeld and Birnam. Later life Niel Gow was married twice. His first wife was Margaret Wiseman, and they had five sons and three daughters. His sons William, Andrew (1760), Nathaniel (1763), and John (1764) all followed their father as fiddlers and composers of fiddle music; two of the daughters were Margaret (1759) and Grizel (1761). The youngest son, Daniel (1765), died in infancy; William died in 1791 at age 40, and Andrew died in 1794 at 34. Of Niel's sons, Nathaniel is by far the most well-known and another fine composer of Scottish music, with nearly two hundred tunes to his credit. As a widower, Gow married Margaret Urquhart from Perth in 1768, and they went on to share a happy marriage until she died in 1805, which prompted his composition of one of his most famous tunes: "Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife". Gow died at Inver on 1 March 1807, aged 80. Following on from the efforts of the fund-raising campaign, a memorial statue of Gow was commissioned with David Annand as sculptor. It was finally erected and unveiled in December 2020. The 20th Century English composer David Gow is a descendent. He commemorated the connection in his Six Diversions on an Ancestral Theme. Contributions Compositions Admiral Nelson Niel Gow's Lament For the Death of His Second Wife Dunkeld Bridge Farewell to Whisky The Stool of Repentance The Duchess of Athole’s Skipper The Athole Volunteers March Miss Stewart of Grantully Highland Whisky Niel Gow’s Lamentation for James Moray, Esq., of Abercarney Major Graham of Inchbrakie Lady Ann Hope’s Favourite Recordings Quadriga Consort CD "By Yon Bonnie Banks" ORF Early Music Edition, Vienna 2007 Scotland's Pete Clark: In the Footsteps of Niel Gow Even Now, The Music of Niel Gow by Pete Clark, Smiddymade, 1998 Niel Gow’s Fiddle by Pete Clark & Muriel Johnstone, Inver 229, 2017 See also Scottish Baroque music Niel Gow's Oak References The Glen Collection of Scottish Dance Music, republished by the Highland Music Trust, 2001 (). Clark, Pete. Even Now: The Music of Niel Gow. Smiddymade Recordings, Perthshire, Scotland, 1999 (SMD615). CD album with extensive album notes. Fifteen tunes by Niel Gow played