Fiddlers ReStrung Hit the Road for an East Coast Swing

Members of Saline’s Fiddlers ReStrung will be getting on the bus Sunday with all their gear, musical instruments and personal effects to take their high-energy entertainment on their annual summer tour. 

This year’s tour is booked as the “Colony Coast Tour” and will take the group to the historic roots of the U.S. republic in Philadelphia, New York City, Connecticut and Boston. Before returning home July 6, the group will make a stop in Pittsburgh for a tour of Carnegie Mellon University and a noon performance on campus there.

Highlights of this year’s tour include a rehearsal audit with the Boston Pops Orchestra on July 3 as the symphony prepares for its annual July Fourth concert in the city called “The Cradle of Liberty.”

Fiddlers ReStrung members will also attend a workshop with renowned Irish fiddler Sheila Falls while in Boston that day. Falls is active as a performer, recording artist and as a member of the fiddle-based band Childsplay. She is also a member of Classical Tangent, a Boston Symphony-based group that performs a variety of world music genres.

The Fiddlers ReStrung tour includes performances in Philadelphia, Madison, CT, Pittsburgh and West Mifflin, PA, among other locations. Downtime activities include a Philadelphia tour day, New York City tour day, Boston tour day, beach park and amusement park fun and fireworks July 4 in State College, PA.

Fans of Fiddlers ReStrung can follow the tour at the group’s Facebook page.

Fiddlers ReStrung is a 21-piece string ensemble featured at more than 80 performances annually. Its members are student, all of whom share in producing a unique ensemble truly their own.

The organization is officially sponsored and supported by Saline Area Schools and . Students are chosen based not only on musical talent, but personal maturity as well as their ability to balance a demanding performance schedule while maintaining high standards in other school activities, sports and academics.

For additional information on Fiddlers ReStrung, please contact Rebecca Groeb-Driskill, Saline Area Schools cultural arts specialist, at 734-429-8020, or visit fiddlersrestrung.com.