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Location:
St.Ann's
Cape Breton, NS
http://www.fiddletree.com
" There is no 'right' way to make a violin, just as there
is no 'right' way to make a painting. All we have are individual
examples of beautiful and powerful paintings and violins that serve
to inspire and compel... Beauty lies in the uniqueness and individuality
of these singular expressions of a universal theme."
Education:
· Self-taught, through trial-and-error and observation; books
and conversation.
Exhibitions, Accomplishments:
· instruments exhibited at the Mary Black Gallery, Halifax NS; Centre
Bras D'or Festival of the Arts, Cape Breton NS; University College
of Cape Breton, Cape Breton NS
· over 300 instruments built; including classical and steel-stringed
guitars, violins, violas, 'cellos, harps, historical reproductions,
and others
· lectures and demonstration workshops given at the Gaelic College,
St.Ann's NS; Technical College, Sydney NS
· music compositions published in several traditional music collections
and commercially recorded by many artists including Jerry Holland,
Cherish the Ladies and the Barra MacNeils
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