Mairi Campbell
violist | singer | theatre maker | songwriterMairi is an award winning musician and teacher. Alongside performance and writing over the past thirty years, Mairi has continuously taught adult learners in fiddle and choirs. From 2007 to 2017 Mairi initiated and led 6 weekend fiddle courses each year from her cottage on the island of Lismore. She loves teaching adult learners and brings skills and tools that enable her classes to become effective learning communities.
From January 2022 Mairi is leading a fiddle class session online every Monday at 7pm. To book a class scroll down page.
Who is the class/session for: All fiddlers or violinists interested in learning Scottish dance music and slow airs are welcome to join us, including
- Relatively new adult fiddle learners (at least two years of playing)
- Fluid players wanting to develop their technique
- Classical players wanting to try folk fiddling
- Players wanting to widen their repertoire and general playing. I offer support for tone, bowing, left hand, rhythm and reading music and anything else that arises
- Players wanting the convenience of staying at home while meeting other fiddlers from around the world
Mairi’s work, CDs shop and music projects can be found on her website: www.mairicampbell.scot
Read more about Mairi
Mairi’s life exploration in music has revolved around pulse and melody. She is a composer, singer, theatre maker and violist and fascinated by the idea of our ‘elemental’ selves and how that might serve music. Mairi studied viola with Csaba Erdelyi at the Guildhall school of music from 1984 – 88.
Since 1990 she has apprenticed herself to an aural based way of learning traditional music from Scotland and Cape Breton, Canada. Mairi’s life-long dance between her cultural learning and elemental self brings warmth, insight and humour to her gatherings. Well, half life…she’s 55.
She runs fiddle and improvisation courses on the island of Lismore, Argyll, when she can.
“Up to then I had what might be described as a mechanistic approach to playing, assuming that mere alterations to playing technique would achieve a change in sound. However, your remarkable blend of simple and effective repetitive exercises with deep philosophical insights into the elemental purpuse of folk tunes, wrought in me a complete re-think about music as a universal language; and consequently to approach playing it by living it.”
Mairi’s Awards:
2019: Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame – Inductee
2018: Inspiration award – HandsupforTrad
2016: Instrumentalist of the year – overall winner
2012: Tutor of the year – overall winner Na Trads
2011: Neil Gow International composition award – overall winner
2008: Scots Singer of the year – overall winner Na Trads
2008: Female Musician of the year – LiveIreland
Watch Mairi talk about her teaching style
Contact Mairi
Email Mairi on mairi@insideoutmusician.com
