“Friendly and supportive tutors who cover a wide variety of styles”
” Whatever your level of competence the tutors are extremely encouraging”
(From Fun Fiddle survey 2014)
Gica Loening joined the Fun Fiddle team in 2003 and has been teaching fiddle in a community setting since 1998. She has also been a longstanding fiddle tutor for Edinburgh’s Scots Music Group and has nurtured countless adult fiddle learners into the world! She founded and performs with Edinburgh’s well established all women Belle Star Band and also Celter Schmelter klezmer Trio. She has gained a reputation as one of the few Scottish klezmer tutors. Alongside fiddle teaching, Gica is Youth Music Initiative Education Officer for East Lothian Council, and also works freelance as a music practitioner. She holds an MSc in ‘Music in the Community’ and lives in Portobello with her partner and three sons who are also musicians.
Sarah Hoy was born into a musical family in Edinburgh. She took up the fiddle aged eight, learning from her father, the late Derek Hoy fiddler with classic Scots band, Jock Tamson’s Bairns, and later with Mairi Campbell, well-known fiddler, singer and step dancer. Now an established and nationally recognised musician and teacher, Sarah enjoys playing with the Bella McNab’s Dance Band, teaches and performs at international festivals around the world along side her husband, piper and pipe maker, Fin Moore. She lives in Edinburgh and has a one year old daughter. Sarah is available for teaching both groups and individuals.
PVG SCHEME RECORD. All Fun Fiddle tutors have full Disclosure through the Scottish PVG Scheme.
The above tutors can be contacted at info@funfiddle.co.uk
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