Workshops
All workshops are £20.00 per person, per workshop for over-18s.
Youth workshops are £10.50 per person, per workshop.
Click on the hyperlinks under each listing to find out more about the workshop leads.
Saturday workshops - 16 November
10.00 am to 11.30 am
1. Petrus Dilner - polskas from Sweden
Beginner. Explore traditional polskas with Northern Resonance’s nyckelharpa player. Pentland Room.
2. Anna Ekborg Hans-Ers - tunes from Dalecarlia
Intermediate/above. Anna shares her deep knowledge of the musical tradition of Dalecarlia. Ochil Room.
3. Jerker Hans-Ers - Nordic Tunes
Intermediate/above. Join “JJ”, the hardanger fiddle player from Northern Resonance, for traditional and new tunes. Highland Room.
12.00 noon to 1.30pm
4. Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas - mixed strings
All levels. Explore the centuries-old relationship between fiddle & cello in Scottish music. Open to all stringed instruments. Pentland Room.
More about Alasdair and Natalie
5. Laura Wilkie - Highland fiddle
Intermediate/above. Gaelic & pipe tunes. Ornamentation/technique featured in Highland tunes. Ochil Room.
6. Megan Henderson - Somestring for everyone
Intermediate/above. Focus on learning by ear and techniques such as intonation & tone quality. Highland Room.
2.00pm to 3.30 pm
7. Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas - mixed strings
All levels. Explore the centuries-old relationship between fiddle & cello in Scottish music. Open to all stringed instruments. Pentland Room.
More about Alasdair and Natalie
8. Calum McIllroy & Megan MacDonald - arrangement
All levels. Learn next-level arrangement techniques - perfect for solo/group playing. Ochil Room.
9. Chloë Bryce - North Highland melodies
All levels. Collected by Joseph & Patrick MacDonald. Highland Room.
4.00pm to 5.30 pm
10. Tomas Callister - Tips, Tricks & Ornamentation
Advanced. Informal: tips on ornamentation, playing style and streamlining your playing. Pentland Room.
11. Ross Hull - getting a tune under your fingers
Intermediate/above. The process of learning a new tune. Make it your own, get it session-ready. Ochil Room.
12. Rose Logan - From Shieling to Støl
Advanced. From Raasay to Norway, explore the music which accompanied traditional farming life at summer grazing pastures. Highland Room.
Sunday workshops - 17 November
10.00 am to 11.30 am
13. Alastair Savage - versatility on the fiddle
Intermediate/above. Recapturing the spirit of 18th century Scotland. Pentland Room.
14. Iain Fraser - fiddle tunes from the movies
Intermediate/above. Some obvious, some more obscure. How fiddle tunes have contributed to film scores. Ochil Room.
15. Juliette Lemoine - trad cello
Intermediate/above. Explore the potential & versatility of the cello in a traditional music context. Highland Room.
12.00 noon to 1.30pm
16. Isla Ratcliffe - Cape Breton fiddle tunes
Intermediate. Cape Breton fiddle music including groove, bowing patterns & ornaments. Pentland Room
17. Éadaoin Ní Mhaicín - Irish fiddle
Intermediate/above. Uncover the Irish fiddling tradition's tunes, arrangements & techniques. Ochil Room.
18. Celine Donoghue - beginner Scottish tunes
Beginner. Learn fun session tunes with focus on ornamentation and bowing. Highland Room.
2.00pm to 3.30 pm
19. Jamie MacDonald - Gaelic Waltzes
Intermediate. Gaelic songs taught and played in a waltz idiom. Pentland Room.
20. Shona Masson - Gaelic Strathspeys
Advanced. Tunes from the Gaelic mouth-music tradition & how to play them Hebridean-style. Ochil Room.
21. Claire Francis McNeil - Gàidhlig Song Workshop
Open to all. Mouth-music and the fiddle. Gàidhlig Puirt-à-beul that feature the fiddle as motif. Highland Room.
4.00pm to 5.30 pm
22. Dan Thorpe - Technique
Beginner. This workshop will look at techniques to help you play more accurately and improve playing at speed. Learning by ear is desirable although not essential. The workshop will use one or two short tunes to use as a basis for practise. Pentland Room.
23. Graham Rorie - tunebook
Open to all. Marking the launch of Graham's first tune book, which features melodies from 'The Orcadians of Hudson Bay', as well as several Gnoss albums. A workshop based around one of his tunes. Ochil Room.