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About Ed Pearlman

Ed Pearlman has focused on performing, teaching, and judging fiddle music for the past 25 years, throughout the USA and in Canada and Scotland. Before that, he studied with members of the Chicago and Boston Symphonies, and played with orchestras and chamber groups at Yale and in Boston. He currently teaches at a conservatory and community music school in Maine. Ed directed the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club in monthly workshops for 18 years, directed major concerts and festivals, and recorded a solo album and several with a fiddle orchestra and top soloists. In addition to Scottish and Cape Breton fiddle styles, Ed plays other Celtic, American, and Canadian fiddle music, classical and some jazz, klez and Hungarian. Ed created and for 10 years ran a CD distribution company to bring music to the USA from Scotland, Atlantic Canada, Ireland, Brittany and Wales. He's the music columnist for Scottish Life magazine.