Saline Fiddlers Heading to Great Britain for Summer Tour

A group of 27 high school aged fiddlers are heading to Great Britain as part of the the Saline Fiddlers "Isle of Smiles" summer tour.

The group and their chaperones are flying across the Atlantic June 26, "The Saline Fiddlers are going to do their best to “do it all” while they are there. They will be performing ten shows:  two in Scotland, four in England and four in Wales," a press release from Mark Visovatti states.

During these shows, they will be sharing the stage with the Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra, the Lothian Schools Strathspey & Reel Society, The Wardle High Folk Group, That’s All Folk!, Cèol Tire and The Jaywalkers. 

Performance venues include the Cardiff Millennium Center - the most visited tourist attraction in all of Wales, Visovatti said.

In addition, the group will enjoy five days in Saline’s sister city of Brecon, Wales.

"The hospitality shown to the Saline Fiddlers from the town of Brecon has been overwhelming," Visovatti said. "Lodging, meals, and many opportunities to perform have been arranged by the Brecon Town Clerk and Cathedral Choir Director."

In Wales, the Fiddlers will provide concerts at the Theatr Brycheiniog for Brecon’s school children and with the Aberhonddu Male Voice Choir at the Mountain Centre in the Brecon Beacons National Park. They will also be performing in the historic Brecon Cathedral with the Brecon Cathedral Choir, the Priory Church Primary School, the Cathedral Consort and the South Powys Youth Orchestra in a benefit concert to help bring the Brecon Cathedral Choir to Saline in July, 2014.

"The Saline Fiddlers want to thank all the donors and sponsors that made this trip possible; over 250 individual, foundation and corporate sponsors in all," Visovatti said.

You can catch the Saine Fiddler in Saline before they leave Thursday evening (June 13) at the Saline Downtown Concert Series. The show will start at 7 p.m. on South Ann Arbor Street between Henry and US-12.

For more information visit http://www.salinemainstreet.org/events/summer-music-series/