Melinda Crawford, a U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Champion, is a frequent and popular performer throughout the United States and beyond.  Always drawing a crowd, she has been heard at everything from highland games and Celtic festivals to a Hard Rock Café and Esterházy Palace in Austria.

            Melinda has won numerous awards for her solo playing and her original
compositions at regional and national Scottish F.I.R.E. competitions.  She achieved fiddling titles such as the Allegheny Mountain Fiddling Champion and the Potomac Valley Fiddling Champion several times prior to winning the 2003 U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Championship and becoming a sanctioned Scottish F.I.R.E. competition judge.  She was a finalist for the 2008 Niel Gow International Scottish Fiddle Composition Competition held in Pitlochry, Scotland.

            A well respected teacher, Melinda has been repeatedly invited to present
educational sessions at national conferences to school string teachers about how to teach traditional Scottish fiddling in the classroom.  She is the music director of the Scioto Scottish Fiddling Club in Columbus, Ohio, and is an instructor at the Jink & Diddle School of Scottish Fiddling in North Carolina.  She has judged previous F.I.R.E. national championships.

            Melinda is currently residing in western Pennsylvania while completing her doctorate in music education.  Her solo performances can be heard on the 2005 Discovery Channel Special, “Seven Wonders of the Wild West” and on two albums, “The Wandering Suitcase of Stirling” (2006) and “The New Caledonian Four” (2008).

Did you know?

The first Airship to cross the Atlantic was built in Scotland.

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