Tinto Summer School

Tinto Summer School 2010, 5th - 10th July

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Tinto Summer School 2010 will be 5th - 10th July 2010. Registration starts on 1st March at 9.00am.

Check out the audio and video from Tinto 2009!

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 hinting 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 are 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) and Innes Watson teaching Mixed Instruments and Guitar. More tutors are to be confirmed, details when we have them!

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 is £220 for the first participant and £200 for subsequant participants from the same family. This includes full board and care for 5 nights, tutoring and transport to and from the concert.

Interested? You can find out more...

Find out about this years tutors
Have a look at a typical timetable
Find out how about the house staff

Tinto Summer School is organised by Simon Thoumire of Hands up for Trad and administered by Paul Murray.

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