003 Ed Pearlman: Fiddle Online and Everywhere (Part 2)

For over 35 years, Ed Pearlman has been recognized as "one of the finest exponents of Scottish fiddling we have in North America" (as put by Earle Hitchener of the Wall Street Journal and the Irish Voice). Ed directed the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club for 18 years, Boston's Celtic Festival at the Hatch Shell for 7 years, and has performed throughout the USA, Canada, and Scotland. He started out learning violin from members of the Chicago and Boston Symphonies, but focused on fiddling since the 1970s. He has written and performed music for several plays, including Macbeth and Miss Julie.

Ed has taught fiddle to thousands of students in private lessons, workshops and fiddle camps throughout the US and in Scotland. He has put many of his ideas into his fiddle learning site in the form of blog articles, live online classes, technique and tune videos. He has written well over 150 blog posts for Music Teachers Helper. Ed has adjudicated Scottish fiddle competitions since the 1980s, including the U.S. Nationals.

Ed co-leads hiking and music tours of Scotland. He has made three CDs with accompanists, plus the Scottish Fiddle Rally CD, featuring top Scottish and Cape Breton soloists. He has written the music column for Scottish Life magazine for 20 years, and spent 10 years distributing the recordings of Scotland, Atlantic Canada, and selected albums from Ireland, Brittany and Wales to stores throughout the USA. (More info at www.edpearlman.net)

In other arts, Ed has written a novel and novella, is coming out shortly with a children's book, and is working on a new novel. He used to do photography seriously, and studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts school in Boston.