Crawford Scottish Fiddling

A Scottish fiddle-fronted performance. All music is instrumentally based; there is no singing. In a show, I interact with my audience, telling the stories behind the tunes and building personal connections to the music. For performances in which I am to be more "background music," I can play a variety of Scottish fiddle music that suits the atmosphere of the event.
Depending on the event, I can add keyboard and bodhran to the band.

Melinda Crawford, a sanctioned Scottish F.I.R.E. judge and a former U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Champion, plays frequently for Scottish highland games, Celtic festivals, and concert series throughout the United States and abroad (including a recital for the Lord Lyon of Scotland.) She also performs as the only fiddle-playing member of the bagpipe/percussion band, The Rogues. A Scottish fiddler since the age of eleven, Melinda has won numerous awards for her solo playing and her original compositions. She also was a finalist for the inaugural Niel Gow International Scottish Fiddle Composition Competition held in Pitlochry, Scotland.

A well-respected teacher, Melinda is the director of the Strathgheny School of Scottish Fiddling held every year in July at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA. She conducts workshops on Scottish fiddling all over the US, has been an instructor at the Jink & Diddle School of Scottish Fiddling in North Carolina, and teaches Scottish fiddling privately and internationally to many students over the internet. She frequently judges Scottish F.I.R.E. competitions at highland games and has judged many previous F.I.R.E. national championships. Melinda has been repeatedly invited to present educational sessions at national conferences to school string teachers about how to teach traditional Scottish fiddling in the classroom. She is also the national president for the Scottish fiddling association for North America, Scottish F.I.R.E.

Melinda is a professor of music at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA, where she directs Ceòl na Teud, Westminster’s Scottish string ensemble. She is also the orchestra director, the string education specialist, and violin and viola (and Scottish fiddling) instructor. Melinda received her doctorate in music education with an emphasis in alternative string pedagogy from The Ohio State University. She is the author of “A Violinist’s Guide to Scottish Fiddling,” published by Mel Bay.

I can provide my own sound system if needed. An electrical outlet that is accessible within 25 is all that is needed.
If there is a sound engineer for the event, the following is needed:
An electrical outlet that is accessible within 25. (The keyboard and the fiddle wireless box needs electric.)
1 XLR cable or a 1/4 inch "in" for the Board for the fiddle (I do play with a. wireless device)
2 XLR lines for the keyboard
A mini boom mic with a SM57 for the bodhran
1 vocal mic for talking
Space or a table for selling merchandise

* I will not perform in the rain.*