fiddlebliss
I'm a fiddle player on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
I started playing the violin when I was 9. I grew up in Colorado, and didn't have much exposure to Celtic music growing up.
I discovered Cape Breton fiddling when I was in my 20's, and I was totally blown away by it. I wanted to learn to play like that! I started learning Cape Breton and Scottish fiddling.
A few years ago I moved to Cape Cod to be closer to my husband's family. Cape Cod has a fabulous Irish session scene, and I started going to the Irish sessions. Bill Black (a.k.a. Zouki) and the rest of the session regulars have been very welcoming, and I appreciate Bill's willingness to put up with a classically-trained hack who didn't know the tunes long enough for me to learn how to play ITM better.
My first love is still Cape Breton music, and I like to throw in Cape Breton tunes at my local session. But I've picked up a pretty big Irish repertoire from my Irish session playing. I've also started to develop a fondness for New England fiddling and Contra Dance music, which has a lot of overlap with Scottish, Irish, French Canadian, and Cape Breton, but has a style all its own.
Tunes in fiddlebliss's tunebook: 8