Cape Breton Fiddle Companion
- Publisher
- Cape Breton University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2015
- Category
- Ethnomusicology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772060249
- Publish Date
- Oct 2015
- List Price
- $27.95
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Description
Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music – in fact she has made a study of it. Doherty’s exposure to, and research of, the island’s music traditions was the germination for this encyclopaedia on the Cape Breton fiddle: the history, the people, the tunes, the recordings.
About the author
Liz Doherty, PhD, is a fiddle player, teacher and researcher of traditional music. A lecturer in Irish traditional music at Ulster University, Derry, Doherty has organized many traditional arts conferences and festivals, including Éisge na Laoi, a festival of Cape Breton music in Cork (1993) and The North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (2012). As a fiddle player, she has recorded and toured with various groups and as a solo artist. She has performed a number of times at Celtic Colours International Festival, including as artist in residence (2015).
