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<\/a>An award-winning music group, which started more than 30 years ago in Kiltearn Primary School, has been relaunched after a break due to Covid, with a former member now leading the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Kiltearn Fiddlers was established by Alpha Munro as part of F\u00e8is Rois\u2019 weekly music classes. Alpha Munro worked tirelessly to provide young musicians from across the Highlands with high quality fiddle tuition and fantastic performance opportunities. The group performed throughout Scotland as well as travelling to Wales, Denmark and France to perform at festivals and some of the Highland\u2019s top traditional musicians were involved as youngsters including Lauren MacColl and Graham Mackenzie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Covid restrictions meant the group was no longer able to meet in person but F\u00e8is Rois is delighted that The Kiltearn Fiddlers has now returned with a former member at the helm; Lauren MacColl. Lauren, originally from the Black Isle, is considered one of Scotland\u2019s most expressive fiddle players and after studying music in Glasgow returned home to the Highlands where she draws much of her musical inspiration. A founder member of both chamber-folk quartet RANT and song-trio Salt House, Lauren\u2019s recent multi-disciplinary project \u2018Heal & Harrow\u2019 with Rachel Newton launched in 2022 with a critically acclaimed album based on the Scottish Witch Trials, and the duo won the Composer of the Year category at the Scots Trad Music Awards 2022. Her 2020 album \u2018Landskein\u2019, her fourth under her own name, is almost entirely solo traditional airs recorded in Abriachan Hall in the Highlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lauren was fiddle tutor for RCS (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Junior Conservatoire for over a decade, and continues to teach her own students and community group. Her work as a session musician on viola and fiddle as seen her record for a wide variety of artists across the Scottish music scene including\u00a0Julie Fowlis, Blue Rose Code, Ewan MacLennan and Siobhan Miller<\/strong>.\u00a0 In 2019 she realised a book of her own tunes titled \u2018To The North\u2026\u2019 and toured her F\u00e8is Rois commissioned work \u2018The Seer\u2019 across major Scottish venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lauren MacColl said: \u201c<\/strong>The Kiltearn Fiddlers years gave me my first taste of arranging, recording and playing gigs with a group. It was a chance to meet with people my age who loved the same music as me, and exchange tunes I was learning at home. We had some brilliant experiences playing far and wide as a group, and Alpha Munro selflessly passed on so much energy and passion for music which was a huge influence on me. It is great to be back leading this new incarnation of the group, working with brilliant young musicians to share in the music we all love. Especially after the last few years, the need to be in the same space to play music together is even more important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Kiltearn Fiddlers is open to young traditional musicians in S1-S6, and you don’t need to be a fiddle player to take part. With thanks to a generous donation to F\u00e8is Rois from a private donor, the monthly sessions are completely free to attend and are aimed at intermediate and advanced players.\u00a0It\u2019s a great chance to learn new music, hone skills and meet new people. The workshops take place on the first Sunday of the month in Dingwall Community Centre and Lauren will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Mike Vass who will lead the intermediate players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tilly McMyn, a member of Kiltearn Fiddlers,<\/strong>\u00a0added: \u201cThe Kiltearn Fiddlers is a lot of fun! I\u2019ve really loved the music we\u2019ve learned so far and Lauren encourages us to give ideas about what we play and how we can play it together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upcoming workshop dates for The Kiltearn Fiddlers are: 5th\u00a0March, 2nd\u00a0April, 7th\u00a0May, 4th\u00a0June. If you would like to find out more and sign up, please email\u00a0tj.bawden@feisrois.org<\/a>\u00a0or visit\u00a0www.feisrois.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An award-winning music group, which started more than 30 years ago in Kiltearn Primary School, has been relaunched after a break due to Covid, with a former member now leading the group. 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