OSAS-Fiddle

Ohio Scottish Arts School

Come Join The “Magic”! June 26—July 2, 2010 Our 32nd Year!

Fiddle

All Students are expected to bring their own instrument.

The 2010 Scottish Fiddle course will be an immersion in some great tunes from the Scottish fiddle tradition,taught by Ed Pearlman, and Cape Breton tunes and style taught by Kimberley Fraser.

We're going to have some great music and good laughs, and you'll come away with an earful and a yearful of music to play and work on at home.

All ages and levels are welcome (beginners must at least be able to play the notes of a scale). Music will be taught by ear, with sheet music available.

Students will have plenty of opportunities to play during the day and in evening sessions with fiddlers, sometimes with harpers and other instruments as well.

Some advance sheet music available upon registration! Upon registering you will receive a special webpage and password so you can see sheet music and hear recordings of several good tunes in advance of OSAS. If you have any questions about these tunes, please contact the coordinator, Ed Pearlman, at heythere@edpearlman.net.

Be advised that class size is limited and some classes fill

BEFORE the stated deadline for registration.

Ed Pearlman has taught and performed Scottish fiddle for 30 years, throughout the US and in Canada and Scotland. He teaches fiddle in Portland, Maine and performs often with son Neil and the band Highland Soles (www.highlandsoles.com) featuring his wife, dancer Laura Scott and family.

Ed directed the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club for 18 years, working closely with great Scottish and Cape Breton fiddlers, including Aly Bain, Alasdair Fraser, Buddy MacMaster, Natalie MacMaster, and many others, in 15 annual Scottish Fiddle Rally concerts (CD available on Greentrax Records). Ed has taught fiddle in Scotland at the Blazin Fiddles "Blazin-In-Beauly" fiddle camp, is a regular instructor at the Ohio Scottish Arts School and Maine Fiddle Camp, and has directed music at Pinewoods and Ashokan camps. His two solo CDs (1987 and 2008) have received acclaim from the Boston Globe and from fellow musicians. Ed is the music columnist for Scottish Life magazine. He has judged many Scottish fiddle competitions, including four U.S. Nationals, and served a term as president of Scottish FIRE.

Kimberley Fraser was born on Cape Breton Island, and nurtured within its rich musical heritage based on Scottish roots. She started performing step-dancing when she was 3, and soon after, took up both the fiddle and the piano. Her own family's musical tradition spans over 100 years.

Though still in her 20s, Kimberley has traveled the world, from Canada to Afghanistan, bringing Cape Breton fiddle music with her wherever she goes. The Cape Breton Post called her "one of the stellar players of the Cape Breton fiddle tradition, equally at home at a house party, playing for a square dance or on stage for a concert.” She has played with top musicians from Cape Breton, Scotland, Ireland, and beyond, including Ashley MacIsaac, Natalie MacMaster, Alasdair Fraser, Lunasa and Martin Hayes.

Kimberley has been a long time fiddle instructor in Cape Breton, at both the Gaelic College and the Ceilidh Trail Music School in Inverness; in Scotland, at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Aberdeen; and in the U.S., at the Swannanoa Gathering in North Carolina, and American Festival of Fiddle Tunes near Seattle.

Kimberley's most recent recording, Falling on New Ground, won Canada's 2008 East Coast Music Award for Best Roots/Traditional Album of the Year.