Monthly Archives: March 2007

FLASTA at the National Conference

By webmaster | Mar202007

The national ASTA conference in Detroit was excellent! It just keeps getting better every year!

FLASTA would like to thank the following FLASTA members for their attendance: Michael Allen, John Cavanaugh, Ellen Cavanaugh, Barbara Cripe, Jyoti Deo, David Eccles, Richard Fleischman, Brett Gardner, Dilek Gokturk, Jeanne Halberg, Tricia Hardy, Jean Hart, Charles Laux, Marta Melville, John Parris, Johanne Perron, Vicki Richards, Vans Evers, Cheryl Vega, Ellen Ways, Beth Yue.

Tricia Hardy meets Midori at the 2007 National Conference

Tricia Hardy meets Midori at the 2007 National Conference

The following FLASTA members presented sessions at the conference: Dilek Gokturk, Tricia Hardy, Charles Laux.

In addition, Michael Allen served as a judge for the National Orchestra Festival. Brett Gardner, guitar student of John Parris, represented our state by performing as a national finalist in the solo competition.

More conference information will be available in the next FLASTA newsletter.

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Scottish Fiddle Workshop

By webmaster | Mar62007

Sunday, March 18, 2007, 1:30 – 5:30 pm


Presented by Melinda H. Crawford,
2003 U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Champion
www.melindacrawford.com

Melinda Crawford

Melinda Crawford

A self-taught Scottish fiddler since the age of eleven, Melinda Crawford has won numerous awards for her solo playing and her compositions at national competitions as well as from various regional highland games and festivals in Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington state. She has achieved fiddling titles including Allegheny Mountain Fiddling Champion and Potomac Valley Fiddling Champion several times as well as the 2003 U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Champion. Today, despite her currently busy life as a doctoral student in music education at The Ohio State University, Melinda is an active Scottish fiddling performer, instructor, clinician, and Scottish F.I.R.E. judge. She is also the music director of the new Scioto Scottish Fiddle Club based in Columbus, Ohio. Her debut solo album, The Wandering Suitcase of Stirling, was released in last year to rave reviews. She has recently performed in Scotland, in Austria, and on the soundtrack of the Discovery Channel’s two-hour special, “Seven Wonders of the Wild West.”

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