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Colyn Fischer, fiddle • Shauna Pickett-Gordon, piano |
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Colyn Fischer performs and teaches violin and fiddle, is a qualified teacher of music in middle school, teaches summer fiddle camp, plays jazz, and composes music in many different genres. He teaches workshops in Scottish fiddling to violinists and fiddlers of all ages and levels. He coaches and co-directs the Peninsula Scottish Fiddlers in the San Francisco Bay area, and has toured Scotland with them. He has twice won the U.S. Open Scottish Fiddling championship, playing his 1926 Benjamin Franklin Phillips fiddle named Angus. |
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Shauna Pickett-Gordon co-directs and writes arrangements for the Peninsula Scottish Fiddlers. She has accompanied many of the great fiddlers in North America, and is the featured pianist in the annual concerts of the Scottish Fiddlers of Los Angeles. Trained in classical piano and voice, experienced in directing choirs, she creates music in various styles. She also enjoys accompanying silent movies. Her piano is a Kawai parlor grand, and the duo's recordings were made in her living room overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
The duo's original compositions are featured on their two CDs.
In addition to music for listening, The Peat-Fire Flame plays music for Scottish country dancing. |
Photos by Peggy Bechtell
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