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Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School

Sixth annual BHSFS:

August 9–16, 2008, Saturday to Saturday

NOTE: Camp is now filled. Call the FAC office at 781-662-7475 to get on the waiting list.

Visitors Day, Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Thompson Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts

featuring

Gregor Borland, Scottish fiddle

Carl MacKenzie, Cape Breton fiddle

Laura Cortese, Scottish fiddle

Hanneke Cassel , beginning Scottish fiddle

Janine Randall, Cape Breton piano

Lezlie Webster, bagpipes

Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School is a week-long residential music camp for all ages, instruments, and levels, with emphasis on traditional Scottish tunes for fiddle. Camper fees include round-trip ferry service between South Boston and the island, seven overnights in comfortable dorm rooms, all meals, music instruction, parties, and concerts. In addition to fiddle classes at five levels and small classes for other instruments, the schedule offers jam sessions, student-led tune and technique workshops, Visitors Day on Tuesday, and a New England clambake.

For complete information, please visit the Boston Harbor Scottish Fiddle School website.

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