This year I was the lone Fiddlelorian to attend SHISSF, what can I say? Amazing as always… so many great tunes (and even greater people) - thanks so much to Cathy Fraser and Duncan Smith for organising everything, you guys do an absolutely phenomenal job, year after year! Also a very special thank you to the visiting tutors Gregor Borland and Kendra Macgillivray, and to the cooks - quite honestly, without your amazing food, SHISSF couldn’t happen anymore!

What is SHISSF? It stands for the ‘Southern Hemisphere International School of Scottish Fiddle’ (try saying that really fast!) and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in playing or accompanying Scottish Fiddle music, learning new tunes, improving their technique, meeting new people (and don’t mind getting less sleep than usual…) To learn more about it, check out www.shissf.com, it’s seriously worth it.

 Love,

 Kathleen