Tour Scotland Travel Video Autumn Jimmy Shand Memorial Statue Auchtermuchty Fife

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the Jimmy Shand statue on ancestry visit to Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. Jimmy Shand, born 28 January 1908, died 23 December 2000, was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. Jimmy was born in East Wemyss in Fife, son of a farm ploughman turned miner and one of nine children. The family soon moved to the burgh of Auchtermuchty. Craig Reid and Charlie Reid better known as The Proclaimers, were born in Leith on 5 March 1962, and grew up in Edinburgh, Cornwall, England, and Auchtermuchty. When they lived in Auchtermuchty they attended Bell Baxter High School in Cupar. Jimmy was the most famous band leader in Scotland of recent times and will have an enduring reputation as an acclaimed button-key accordionist, composer and ambassador of Scottish music and dance. A larger than life sculpture of the great man is located in Upper Greens, Auchtermuchty, Fife. Since the unveiling, the statue has been visited by many of his fans from all parts of the world.

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