Each year Fidlearein Eilean an Fhraoich (Fiddlers of the Heather Isles) run the seven day long fiddle based music camp each year on the wonderfully relaxed and beautifully stunning island of Taransay. The uninhabited six thousand acre island which was the setting for BBC Castaway project is home normally to only Red Deer and Sheep.  Taransay hugs the bay on the coast line of the larger island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. 

Fidlearein Eilean an Fhraoich have been using this unique location since 2001 as the setting for this innovative traditional music based project.  In  2007 a total of fifty  fiddlers of all levels and abilities came together for a fully music packed week - under the tuition of some of Scotland’s best fiddlers and musicians Patsy Reid, Alasdair White, Charlie McKerron, Iain MacFarlane, Allan Henderson, Andy Thorbourn and Bridgette Law from USA.

No holiday this - with fiddles blazing each and every day from the first lessons at 9am - and on into the small wee hours until some particularly difficult Reel Jig or Strathspey is finally mastered and sits neatly under the  fingers. Accommodation is bring your own tent or sleep in the bunk houses last inhabited by Ben Fogel and his other Castaways cronies.  The food and hospitality is second to none with local celebrity cooks Catherine and Isobel dishing out the plentiful cuisine.  

This CD represents the fruits of the Fiddle Camp labours and is a must for anyone who likes down to earth honest music - presented and performed in the format of fun, friendship and great “crack”.  The CD captures the moment and gives us, the jealous listener an insight into the great time the performers must have had during there special week on Taransay.      

The piping of Andy MacIntyre heralds the concert opening, followed by the McKerrons Class, Session M8, Alasdair White and Patsy Reid, Bridgette’s Class –  Traditional song from Catriona Watt, Duet by Iain MacFarlane and Charlie McKerron, Patsy Reid’s Class followed by the stunning singing of the newly formed  Taransay Gaelic Choir!!   New song from Bridgette Law.  Closing with the now standard Taransay Fiddlers Stramash