Marie Fielding

Marie Fielding has been playing the fiddle since the age of 9. Born in Edinburgh 1967, she was given her first fiddle from a family friend Margaret Lawson, violinist with the R.S.N.O. Marie taught herself to play until lessons became available at school. Although she initially studied classical violin, her passion was traditional music.

Marie began playing professionally at the age of 15 with her brother Owen and Craig McCallum, playing at ceilidhs, concerts and Irish dance classes. At 17, Marie joined Jim Johnstone and his band and travelled all over Scotland and abroad for 12 years. During this time, she began to write her own tunes. A lot of the influences came from pipe music and gaelic song. Marie has composed over 40 tunes and plans to release a book of her compositions later in the year.

Marie has also performed with John Carmichael, Neil Barron Band, Black Rose Ceilidh Band, Fiddlers Five, Maggie MacInnis, Manus Mcguire, Finlay MacDonald Band, Phil Cunningham, Bobby MacLeod, Robert MacLeod,Tom Orr and many more. As well as recording more than 30 albums, countless radio programmes and T.V, Marie has performed at Fiddle 2004, Neil Gow Festival 2005 & 2006, Celtic Connections, Burns and Gaels Tour, Shetland Festival, Mull Festival and at many Folk Festivals over the years.