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2008 Fiddle Students & Instructors
Scottish Fiddle Course Information 
All Students are expected to bring their own instruments.
The Scottish Fiddle course is an immersion in some great tunes from the Scottish fiddle tradition, including tunes and stories from Shetland. We're going to have some great music and good laughs, and you'll come away with an earful and a yearful of music to play and work on at home.
All ages and levels are welcome (beginners must at least be able to play the notes of a scale). Music will be taught by ear, with sheet music available.
Students will have plenty of opportunities to play during the day and in evening sessions with fiddlers, sometimes harpers and other instruments as well.
Some advance sheet music available upon registration! Upon registering you will receive a special webpage and password so you can see sheet music and hear recordings of several good tunes in advance of camp this summer. If you have any questions about these tunes, please contact our instructor, Ed Pearlman, at heythere@edpearlman.net )
2009 Instructors
Faculty is subject to change depending on enrollment.
 Ed Pearlman has taught and performed Scottish fiddle for 30 years, throughout the US and in Canada and Scotland. He teaches fiddle in Portland, Maine and performs often with son Neil and the band Highland Soles
(www.highlandsoles.com) featuring his wife, dancer Laura Scott and family.
Ed directed the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club for 18 years, working closely with great Scottish and Cape Breton fiddlers, including Aly Bain, Alasdair Fraser, Buddy MacMaster, Natalie MacMaster, and many others, in 15 annual Scottish Fiddle Rally concerts (CD available on Greentrax Records). Ed has taught fiddle in Scotland at the Blazin Fiddles "Blazin-In-Beauly" fiddle camp, is a regular instructor at the Ohio Scottish Arts School and Maine Fiddle Camp, and has directed music at Pinewoods and Ashokan camps. His two solo CDs (1987 and 2008) have received acclaim from the Boston Globe and from fellow musicians. Ed is the music columnist for Scottish Life magazine.
He has judged many Scottish fiddle competitions, including four U.S. Nationals, and served a term as president of Scottish FIRE.
Neil Pearlman is emerging as one of the traditional music scene's most innovative young artists. A mandolinist, pianist, fiddler and stepdancer, Neil has performed with a many of the best musicians on the traditional scene today, including Natalie MacMaster, Kimberley Fraser, Abby Newton, Frank Ferrel, Maeve Gilchrist, Mike Vass and Ed Pearlman.
At OSAS, Neil will provide class assistance, including accompaniment, and will help anyone interested in learning more about mandolin or piano. He'll make sure there's a good music session for all ages each night to play and listen to fiddle tunes. Neil teaches piano this summer at Alasdair Fraser's Sierra Fiddle Camp, and at Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Iron Horse, and Nighttown and tours extensively with Ed Pearlman, Highland Soles, Steph Chou, and other groups. He performs throughout New York City and on campus at Columbia University, where he also teaches tunes each week to a group interested in Scottish music.
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