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Fiona Grant

Fiona Grant

Ceolas Music and Dance School in the Hebrides

April 3, 2006, 11:27 a.m. (Message 44957)

Ceolas is a wonderful week of dance and music held in South Uist in the long
daylight hours of the Hebridean summer. This year is the 10th school and
will be held from 1-7 July. Great ceilidhs and classes!

An unforgettable experience,

Fiona Grant
Itinerant dancer based in Bristol.

Some more info:

Ceòlas is a music and dance summer school featuring expert tuition in
piping, fiddling, singing, Scotch reels and Quadrilles, step dancing and the
Gaelic language. It is set within the Gaelic-speaking community of South
Uist. Ceòlas explores the vital connections between Scottish traditional
music, Gaelic song and dance while allowing ample opportunity for
participants to enjoy all these art forms in cèilidhs and in homes, the
places which fostered them.
Though focusing on Hebridean tradition, Ceòlas also has a strong Cape Breton
dimension. Gaelic culture taken to Cape Breton (Nova Scotia, Canada) by
emigrants from the Gaidhealtachd nearly 200 years ago survived there in
relative isolation. Now, Ceòlas provides a unique opportunity to bring it
all ‘back home'. Celebration of cultural links between music, song and
dance, and across the Atlantic, is the School's hallmark. 

http://www.ceolas.co.uk/index.php
  
Tutors: 
Maybelle Chisholm-MacQueen- Piano  
Alexander MacDonnell- Step Dance  
Angus MacKenzie - Piping for Dancing  
Kinnon Beaton- Cape Breton fiddle  
Troy MacGillivray- Cape Breton Fiddle  
Ross Ainslie- Piping for Dancing  
Anna Wendy Stevenson-Scottish Fiddle  
Cathy Ann MacPhee-Love songs of Uist & Barra  
Donald John MacIntyre  
Frank McConnell - Step Dance  
Iain MacDonald - Artistic Director, Piping  
Iain MacKay- Hebridean Songs  
Rona Lightfoot - Songs of Uist  
Sandra Robertson- Step-Dance

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