COMMUNITY
Royal Tattoo funds Mull Fiddle Week
Mull Music Makers are tuning up for a free fiddle week this August with the help of Edinburgh Tattoo. Young people, aged from five to 26 and living on Mull and across Argyll and Bute, are being invited to sign up for the week-long skill-building course open to players of all levels from beginners to professional
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string teachers – and in between. The dates in the diary are Monday August 9 to Friday August 13. The venture, a first for Mull Music Makers (MMM), got 100 per cent funding from The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo two years ago but had to cancel it for 2020 because of the pandemic.
Now it is back on and excitement is mounting for this summer’s celebration of traditional fiddle music with the support of expert tutors led by Scottish fiddle player and composer Patsy Reid. Fiddle teacher Adam Sutherland, who has strong Mull connections and has played with The Treacherous Orchestra, Session A9,
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