Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School

Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School is a residential camp for all ages, all instruments, all levels, with emphasis on traditional Scottish tunes for fiddle. Fees include 7 overnights in comfortable dorm rooms, all meals, music instruction, parties, concerts, ferry service to the island, and limitless Scottish fiddle enjoyment. We have a great teaching staff planned, and the welcoming camaraderie of all our fellow musicians is legion. In addition to fiddle classes on five levels, piano and a third instrument, we feature jam sessions, student-led tune & technique sections, dancing for all with sit-in bands, and our celebrated Visitors Day.

LATEST NEWS

Announcing ... Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School 2008 is sloping towards full. Our advice is to get your application in IMMEDIATELY.

You can read and download all the information and forms, right here from this website. Click on the "About Camp," "Teachers," and "Fiddle Courses" links on the left.

For those who have already applied and been accepted - the information sheets "How to Get to Camp," "Things To Bring" and more are now available here on the web - click on the CAMPER INFO link on the left, then click on each box to read and/or download all the information.

New on the web: A "Fiddle Courses" page which has some information on the five fiddle course levels - Very Beginning, Beginning, Intermediate I, Intermediate II and Advanced. This should give Fiddle Schoolers some guidelines in choosing their class level. Take a look at the Fiddle Courses page.

The Tunes page and all the tune downloads have been extensively revised. Some missing tunes have been filled in, the order changed, a few tunes corrected, and page numbers added. A few tunes from each year have download links on the Tunes page; for the complete sets, you must contact Barbara McOwen (see the Contact Us page, or go to www.mcowen.net). They are arranged ready for printing back-to-front, with a tune list at the beginning of each group.

Photos! Anyone can get a good taste of camp by clicking on the Photos 03-06 button. The complete 2006 photos will be available for a few more weeks; then they will be reduced down to about the top 20, and the 2007 photos will go up. Attendees of the 2007 camp are welcome - in fact, urged - to send in your photos. The more people who send photos, the better cross-section we get of the camp and the people. Send direct to Barbara McOwen. Thanks!

2008 Directors: Marcie Van Cleave and Barbara McOwen are continuing as Co-Directors, with Carolyn Ramm as FAC Liaison, and Hanneke Cassel and Laura Risk will continue as Advisors.

If you're interested in Scottish fiddle and dance activities throughout the year, get in touch with Barbara McOwen, and/or take a look at www.mcowen.net and click on Events.

Article: To view Gill Charters' article from the Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 2003, click here.

If you don't see the column on the left with all the links, click on "Refresh Home Page" below.

Website: You can always get to the Boston Harbor website via www.scottishfiddle.org. Not too hard to remember. Come back soon!