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Tinto Summer School 2010, 5th - 10th July
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Tinto Summer School is a 5-day residential school in traditional music for high school age (12-18) participants. The school takes place at Wiston Lodge, a beautiful Victorian former hunting lodge in the peaceful rural heart of South Lanarkshire. Students partake in five hours of teaching per day with top traditional musicians from all over the country. Former tutors include Charlie McKerron, Karine Polwart, Liz Doherty to Corrina Hewat and Findlay Napier to name but a few. The tutors for 2010 were
Rachel Hair teaching Mixed Instruments and Clarsach, Sharon Hassan teaching Fiddle (Intermediate) and Mixed Instruments, Maeve MacKinnon teaching Gaelic Song and Scots Song, Charlie McKerron teaching Fiddle (Advanced) and Fiddle (Intermediate/Advanced), James Ross teaching Piano and Mixed Instruments and Innes Watson teaching Mixed Instruments and Guitar. Tutors for 2011 are still to be confirmed - watch this space!
In addition to the teaching we have a number of activites for evenings and breaks including campfires, BBQs, a fancy dress ceilidh and a tutor concert as well as outdoor games such as frisbee, boomerang, football, rounders and retrieving the aerobie and boomerang from trees (possibly everyone`s favourite game.). We end the week with a fantastic participants concert in Biggar Municipal Hall before an all-night party to celebrate a fantastic time had by all. The cost for attending Tinto Summer School 2010 was £220 for the first participant and £200 for subsequent participants from the same family. This includes full board and care for 5 nights, tutoring and transport to and from the concert. The cost for 2011 is still to be confirmed! Interested? You can find out more...
Tinto Summer School is organised by Simon Thoumire of Hands up for Trad and administered by Paul Murray. |
  
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