The 2008 Annual “Fiddles in Bloom” Concert

Where: Rockwood Pavilion (Sechelt)
When: Sunday, June 22 at 2:00 p.m.

Adults $10.00
Seniors/Students $8.00

Tickets available at Hallmark in Gibsons, and Medichair in Sechelt.

See you there!

Update: (June 2, 2008) — The 2008 Sunshine Coast Summer School of Celtic Music is now FULL.
Note that tickets for the July 11th Sunshine Coast School of Celtic Music Gala Concert, at Rockwood (Sechelt), will be on sale at the Fiddles in Bloom concert on the 22nd of June.

The Sunshine Coast Summer School of Celtic Music is sponsored by the Coast String Fiddlers Association, a non-profit society which is committed to promoting the understanding and learning of traditional music through the support of fiddle instruction and related activities. Volunteers organize the Summer School, concerts, workshops and the Coast String Fiddler fiddle clubs. Our aim is to provide players of all backgrounds and levels the opportunity to learn in a non-competitive environment and to be able to take advantage of playing with others. We fully support family involvement.

The Coast String Fiddlers Association invites you to a week of study, playing and good times for all who share an interest in traditional music and in particular Celtic music, song and dance. Our eighth annual summer school is located in Roberts Creek Community School in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada. FIND OUT MORE >>

Teachers confirmed so far …

• Mairi Campbell (fiddle)
• David Francis (guitar)
• Iain Fraser and Harris Playfair (traditional big band)
• Pierre Schryer (fiddle)
• Gordon Stobbe (fiddle)
• Michelle Bruce (fiddle)
• Ivonne Hernandez (fiddle)
• Abby Newton (cello)
• Sharlene Wallace (harp)
• Cathy Reckenberg (fiddle)
• Adrian Dolan (fiddle)
• Andy Hillhouse (guitar)
• Angus Lyon (accordion)
• Ruaridh Campbell (fiddle)
• Patrick Ourceau

You can copy and paste this page (http://coaststringfiddlers.com/2006/12/30/orange-blossom-special-video/) into your e-mail and send the video to friends and relatives on the Coast, in Vancouver, or overseas.

Did you know?

The original Orange Blossom Special was a passenger train operated by the Seaboard Air Line Railway. The train was an all Pullman extra-fare train that carried passengers from New York City to the resorts of the the east coast of Florida. The Orange Blossom Special first ran on November 21, 1925 and was cancelled without ceremony in the early 1960s. (The Seaboard Air Line was so called because it followed a direct route, called an air line by 19th century surveyors.)

The fiddle tune, “Orange Blossom Special” by Ervin Rouse and Robert Russell “Chubby” Wise was composed in 1938. It has been called the best known fiddle tune of the twentieth century.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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We hope to see you at one of our Coast String Fiddlers performances in the new year. Our Concerts Web page will be updated soon so that you can view when and where we’ll be performing in 2007.

All the best,

The Coast String Fiddlers Association

Welcome to the new CoastStringFiddlers.com Web site! Have a look around and enjoy. Feel free to post a comment and let us know what you think.

We’ll be adding more photos soon, as well as video clips of recent performances. Also, we’ll be adding sample Coast String Fiddler audio tracks (note: we’re still working out one little bug with the current audio files on the “Buy Music” page. This will be fixed shortly).

Cheers,

The Coast String Fiddlers Association