Fiddle workshops in Scotland
Below is a list of fiddle weekends and week-long fiddle workshops that I’m aware of that happen each year in Scotland. If you know of any other workshops that are not on this list, or spot any errors, please let me know!
Central Scotland
Scots Fiddle Festival (various tutors – Edinburgh)
Fiddlingscool (Gregor Borland and Dougie Lawrence – Perthshire)
Celtic Connections (various tutors – Glasgow)
The String School (Mairi Voinot and others – Glasgow)
Feis Fhoirt (various tutors – Falkirk & Stirling)
Winter Trad (Ross Couper – Edinburgh)
Dunkeld Bridge fiddle weeks (Pete Clark – Perthshire)
South Scotland
Tinto Summer School (various tutors – South Lanarkashire)
Merlin Academy of Traditional Music summer school (Ian Fraser)
West Scotland
Lismore fiddle retreats (Mairi Campbell – Lismore)
Sabhal Mor Ostaig short courses (Alasdair Fraser and others – Skye)
Fyne Fiddles (Amy Geddes – Argyll)
Resipole Fiddle Fest (various tutors – Moidart)
Ceolas Uist (Various tutors – Uist)
Land o’ Burns Fiddle Weekend (Ayrshire)
North Scotland
Black Isle Fiddle Weekend (Lauren MacColl – Cromarty)
Blazin’ in Beauly (Blazin’ Fiddles – Highland)
Fiddlingscool (Gregor Borland and Dougie Lawrence – Highland)
Fiddle Frenzy (various Shetland fiddlers – Shetland)
(various tutors – Ross-shire)
Feis Gleann Albainn (usually Adam Sutherland, Charlie McKerron, Innes Watson, and Ross Couper – Highland)
(various tutors – Highland)
East Scotland
Dee and Don Ceilidh Collective workshops (tutors from the band – Aberdeenshire)
Saltoun Strings (East Lothian)
Other
Adam Sutherland School of Fiddle (various locations)
Scottish Cello Workshops also open to fiddlers. (Seylan Baxter – various locations)
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