About Sierra Fiddle Camp

Sierra Fiddle Camp invites you to a week of intensive study, recreation, and good times with people who share an interest in the music and dance traditions of Scotland and beyond. In a beautiful setting near Nevada City, California and the Yuba River, on the San Juan Ridge, fiddlers and other musicians of all ages and levels of musical experience choose from daily workshops on Scottish and related fiddle styles. Additional classes are offered in guitar, cello, keyboard, dance, song, percussion as well as recreational opportunities such as ropes course, arts and crafts, swimming, hiking etc.

Alasdair Fraser, Director of the camp, is in demand as a concert artist, dance fiddler and fiddle teacher throughout his native Scotland and the United States. He excels in expressing the beauty and energy of traditional Scottish fiddling and in creating exciting new music that remains true to that tradition. Alasdair is the founder of many other highly successful and influencial fiddle and dance schools - the Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle School in California and the Alasdair Fraser Fiddle Course on the Isle of Skye and at Glasgow's prestigious Celtic Connections Festival in Scotland. A focus of Alasdair's teaching is to encourage people to find their own voice in traditional music; to explore potential in a supportive and non-competitive environment and to use the power of music and dance to create and enhance community.

• Welcome Letter
  (Summary of pertinent information about Sierra Fiddle Camp)
• Preliminary Camp Schedule