*picture this excited fiddler jumping up and down giggling and then, if you would be so kind, follow this link...*
Skelpaig Album Review in the Scotland On Sunday by Norman Chalmers
And this one!!
Woohoo, I don't know how to express this level of chuffedness!
Skelpaig CD Review in the Scotsman by Kenny Mathieson
Hello hello welcome along, here's some stuff about me...
I play the fiddle and write tunes. Watch out, if you get to know me at all I'll probably write a tune about you.
I play a big old mix of tunes I've written and anything else I like the sound of. I'm most at home with West Coast Highland music, but also play Irish, Breton, Galician and a tiny bit of Basque stuff too. Right now I'm really getting into backup grooves on the fiddle and getting my fingers round my new 5-string.
I'm from Portree on Skye (well, Claigan near Dunvegan if you want to go far enough back) and grew up playing fiddle at Ceilidhs - and singing until the fiddle took over.
I was in Glasgow for 5 years (yes, it's a 4 year degree. Just ask if you ever want excess information on avoiding and recovering from tendonitus) on the BAAM course, playing, teaching, working for Glasgow Fiddle Workshop, Celtic Connections, Dunblane Fiddle Workshop, Glasgow Violin Shop and various Fèisean all over the place. I taught independantly at the Violin Shop until Angus Council were daft enough to employ me full time as an instructor.
Yes, that is me in the 25 year book of the Fèis with various lengths of hair.
I now play in Skelpaig and teach strings in Angus. I write the 'Funky Fiddler Tune Books' - number three has been almost finished for a couple of months now but hopefully ready soon. They are currently just for my pupils but there seems to be demand so maybe I'll get around to publishing them outside of schools.
I present the Folk and Roots show on Radio North Angus on Friday nights 10pm to 11.30pm, 96.6fm in Angus and aroundabouts. (I think that's the professional lingo there for ya).
As the name suggests, I play folk, trad, roots music and that sorta thing. Well really, if I like it then I'll play it.**
Send me your news, tour dates and anything else you'd like the world to know about - especially your cds if you'd like me to play them.
You can email the show on [email protected]; you can snail mail me your cds and anything else you like (within reason like, no nasty surprises please...) to;
Radio North Angus Ltd (Folk and Roots Show)
Rosemount Road
Arbroath
Angus
Scotland
UK
DD11 2AT
Yeah go on then, I'll think of a prize for the silliest thing received through the post...
Thanks to everyone who has sent me cds so far, I've been having a great time listening to them!
You can find the playlists on my blog.
Hello to my sister show, the Midweek Session over on Cuillin Fm with Fiona Beaton and John Wilson - you can listen to them on live web streaming on Wednesday nights (cos that's when they're on and it's live). Fancy that huh!
Cheers the noo! Kat x
**but not if it's got sweary words in it cos then I'll get in trouble.
