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Edinburgh Tradfest: Fiddle Workshop with Ryan Young

Come and learn some amazing fiddle tunes with Ryan Young, one of Scotland’s most accomplished players, at the Traverse Theatre on 7th May!

Edinburgh Tradfest: Fiddle Workshop with Ryan Young

About Edinburgh Tradfest: Fiddle Workshop with Ryan Young

Join one of Scotland’s finest and most engaging fiddle players for a workshop for players at an intermediate and advanced level. Ryan will focus on how you bring a tune to life and how to take notes on a page and make it your own. He’ll teach how to not only play a tune, but play with it! He’ll showcase a couple of tunes by ear and talk about some different ways it could be changed and little things he might do with them personally.

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