Ed directed the Boston Scottish Fiddle Club for 18 years, after cofounding it in 1981. During this time, he led monthly workshops, an annual concert series called the Scottish Fiddle Rally, featuring soloists from Scotland and Cape Breton, tours to Cape Breton, and other events, including the Celtic Festival at Boston’s Hatch Shell, which Ed founded and directed, presenting the best in the Boston area’s Irish, Scottish and Cape Breton musicians and dancers to an audience of some 7,000 annually.

    He has taught countless students in private lessons, classes, workshops, and music camps including Ohio Scottish Arts School for 16 summers, Maine Fiddle Camp, Pinewoods music and dance camps, Blazin-in-Beauly fiddle camp in Scotland, Swannanoa Celtic Week, Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp, and Ashokan Celtic Week.  In 2005, Ed was a featured performer and teacher at the Blazin' Fiddles music camp near Inverness, Scotland.

    In addition, Ed has been the music columnist for Scottish Life magazine since 1996.