Workshops
All workshops are £20.00 per person, per workshop for over-18s.
Youth workshops are £11.00 per person, per workshop.
Click on the hyperlinks under each listing to find out more about the workshop leads.
Saturday workshops - 15 November
10.00 am to 11.30 am
1. Sam Sweeney - Exploring the English Jig
Advanced. Explore the three-dimensional rhythm of the English jig. Pentland Room.
2. Grace Smith - 3/2 hornpipes
Beginner/Intermediate. Learn more about this interesting tune form and find ways to bring the tunes to life. Ochil Room.
3. Fergal Scahill - Embellishing Tunes
Advanced. Focusing on ornamentation and variation. Highland Room.
12.00 noon to 1.30 pm
4. Benedict Morris - Irish Tunes
Advanced. A focus on the relationship between Scottish and Irish music, embellishment and tone. Pentland Room.
5. Seamus O’Baoighill - Strathspeys and Reels
Intermediate. Exploring the varied combinations of Highland/Pipe Strathspeys into Reels. Ochil Room.
6. Kristina Leesik - Swedish Tunes
Intermediate. Swedish fiddle tunes with focus on bowing, ornaments and groove. Highland Room.
2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
7. Eryn Rae - Developing your style
Intermediate/advanced. Exploring ways in which you can develop your individual style as a fiddle player. Pentland Room.
8. Douglas Montgomery - Orkney Tunes
Intermediate. Orkney tunes with the current Scots Trad Music Award Tutor of the Year.
Ochil Room.
9. Brian Cromarty - Accompaniment
Intermediate. Learn to expand chord choices and explore different rhythmic patterns. Highland Room.
4.00 pm to 5.30 pm
10. Morag Brown - Getting Comfy with Your Fiddle
Beginner/Intermediate. Getting comfy with your fiddle, freeing your technique, opening up your sound. Pentland Room.
11. Patsy Reid - Technical Aspects to Improve Sound
All levels. Unpick technique and address tension through relaxation, agility, and strength. Ochil Room.
12. Alice Allen - Cello Tone
All Levels. Develop your tone and intonation using a slow air and explore how technique and arm weight unlocks the core of your sound. Highland Room.
Sunday workshops - 16 November
10.00 am to 11.30 am
13. Juliette Lemoine - Interpreting Tunes for the Cello
Intermediate. Exploring what you can do with tunes and accompaniment with the cello. Pentland Room.
14. Madeleine Stewart - Chords and Improvisation
Intermediate/above. Chord structure, harmonies, and variations. A bit of theory and a lot of experimentation! Ochil Room.
15. Heather Cartwright - Ornamentation (Mixed Instrument)
Intermediate. Apply ornaments from any instrument to your own. Highland Room.
12.00 noon to 1.30 pm
16. Celine Donoghue - Beginner Scottish Tunes
YOUTH WORKSKHOP. Fun Scottish session tunes with a focus on ornamentation and bowing. Pentland Room
17. Robbie Greig - Playing with Singers
Advanced. How the nuances of a song influence how we accompany it on the fiddle. Ochil Room.
18. Sally Simpson - Double Stopping Focus
Improving beginners. Discover how to incorporate double stopping into your playing. Highland Room.
2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
19. Graham MacKenzie - Exploring a New Tune
Intermediate/advanced. Explore newly-composed tunes with a focus on technique, tone, and orientation. Pentland Room.
20. Innes Watson - Rhythm in Melody
Intermediate/advanced. Learn how to make tunes groove and feel rhythmically interesting. Ochil Room.
21. Lauren Collier - World Music and Arrangement
All levels. ’World Music’ melodies, harmonies, and arrangement ideas. Highland Room.
4.00 pm to 5.30 pm
22. Alistair McCulloch - Ayrshire Fiddle Traditions
Intermediate/advanced. Less well-known fiddle traditions of Ayrshire; both traditional and contemporary. Pentland Room.
23. Seán Gray - Arrangement and Accompaniment (Mixed Instrument)
Intermediate/advanced. Delve into the art of arranging and accompanying traditional tunes, mainly Scottish. Ochil Room.
24. Rose Logan - From Shieling to Støl
Advanced. From Raasay to the mountains of Norway; explore the music accompanying farming on summer grazing pastures.