"a striking new solo album from the Nairn-based player and prolific tune composer Ian Hardie... The ringing, double-stopped sound is both familiar to anyone acquainted with American music, yet can also give an intriguing new feel to established Scottish material ..."

"... listen to him play a set of Highland pipe tunes, using the same "crosskey" tuning, giving them a new vigour... Opening with the skittish drive of Carn Gorm to Blue Ridge, the album is by no means all hell-for-leather."

"It includes a beautiful version of his air, Tollaidh, and ends with a stately "fiddle pibroch", The Highlands of Nairnshire, its resonant, droning strings mimicking some bagpipe pibroch fingerings, and bringing this wandering music securely back home."
Jim Gilchrist, 'FOLK, JAZZ, ETC'


"We are all familiar with the tales of the migration of the folk tradition across the ‘Western Ocean’. Hardie, a fantastic Scottish fiddle player followed the trail and learned and re-learned his craft in the old time communities of the Blue Ridge Mountains in recent years and from that rebirth he has produced a wonderful album of fourteen instrumental tracks. It opens with the self explanatory ‘Carn Gorm to Blue Ridge’, which is not only a great piece of music but it reminds us of the origin of the Cairngorms title."

"These are not re-hashed traditional tunes. Hardie has composed new works based on his travels and his education in styles of playing. The work will be new and that is always hard to sell, we are addicted to the familiar, but this album is worth the effort and will delight anyone who loves good music well played."

"It may be ‘Karen’s Waltz’ or ‘The Grey One Goes West’ or even ‘Banjo Branch Fiddle’ that hooks you but hooked you will be if you are willing to invest some time in new old music or is that old new music? Either way the unusually titled ‘Westringing’ will repay your effort."
Nicky Rossiter - Irish Music Magazine

"Hardie is a lovely player, with excellent control and expression in his playing.... Westringing is a superb example of a "concept" album that hews closely to its stated theme and delivers in spades. Lovers of good fiddle music will find a lot to like here. (Good notes, art and design, especially for an independent release, too.)"
Gary Whitehouse, Greenmanreview.com, USA, February 2008

“ Very often a so-called ‘solo’ recording is backed by a plethora of other instruments, but this one by ace fiddler Ian Hardie is strictly solo........‘Westringing' is a must for all lovers of fiddle music.”
The Reel Magazine, London, Feb-Apr Edition 2008