For over two hundred years, Prince Edward Island has been home to a strong fiddling tradition: a blend of Scottish, Irish and Acadian influences. Nearly every "district" had its stock of fiddlers who played their lively, highly expressive music year round at house dances, weddings, "frolics" (work parties), church picnics, community socials, and schoolhouse dances. 

This traditional PEI fiddling style has not previously been well represented on either commercial or field recordings, but you can learn more about it in this two day course, taught by Ken Perlman, curator of the Bowing Down Home website and author of Couldn't Have a Wedding Without the Fiddler: The Story of Traditional Fiddling on Prince Edward Island.

Dates: August 17-18. 2016
Cost: $100

To register please visit http://www.upei.ca/skillsdevelopmentandlearning/professional-development