User:George Fowler

I trained classically as a youngster, but started fiddling in the late 1970s by learning tunes from lobsterman & folk fiddler Albert Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine. For the past 7 years I have been a staff instructor at Maine Fiddle Camp, and also a guest instructor at Prince Edward Island Fiddle Camp. I am a member of The Montville Project (www.montvilleproject.com), a repertory ensemble which has released two recordings of classic New England tunes, and a founding member of Oakum Bay String Band, formerly the host band for the monthly Blue Hill dance, at the time the longest-running contradance in Maine. I teach primarily repertoire and New England dance style fiddle. I also have a strong interest in Irish traditional music and host “New Potatoes”, a weekly music show on WERU-FM, which can be heard on Sundays from 4-6pm.(live feed at www.weru.org)