Mr & Mrs Allan are; Eric and Helen. They live near Inverness, Scotland and have donated an enormous amount of time, expertise and energy to traditional music in Scotland. They also offered some fantastic support and advice to me when I was researching tune book publishing.
Composer website: https://www.karensteven.co.uk
Link to audio of music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayEG2JdDKlQ
Karen, a fiddle player/composer/recording artist was raised in a musical household. Her dad, Eion was self-taught on accordion, while her mother, Christine ensured that the girls in the family attended highland dancing lessons. From an early age, Karen and her siblings were exposed to highland bagpipe music, as this commonly accompanies highland dancing. She believes that by the time she began learning fiddle at age 13, she already had a repertoire of tunes in her head. This, combined with exposure to traditional music at home and at local accordion & fiddle clubs led to a love of traditional music and playing for highland dancing. Karen loves to compose tunes inspired by places around Scotland, for friends & family as well as for highland dance choreography.
If you would like to contact the composer – you can email them here.