Lori Watson is a fiddle player and folk singer who performs traditional and contemporary folk music.
12 Facts About Lori Watson
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Lori Watson is the first doctor of Artistic Research in Scottish Music.
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Lori Watson studied Scottish music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and graduated in 2003.
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Lori Watson completed a PhD in Contemporary Innovation and Traditional Music in Scotland.
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Lori Watson completed doctoral studies at the RCS in Glasgow and St Andrews University in 2013.
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Lori Watson investigated innovation and beyond-tune composition by traditional musicians in Scotland including a substantial folio of new and experimental musical works.
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Lori Watson's supervisors were Dr Stephen Broad, Dr Liz Doherty, Dr Stuart Eydmann and Prof.
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Lori Watson wrote the music for this devised theatrical production at the Aberdeen International Arts Festival in 2016.
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Lori Watson was a lecturer and examiner at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland including Contemporary Studies, Honours Projects, Scots Song and Principal Study Song Group.
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Lori Watson leads the Tolbooth Traditional Music Project for young people and teaches workshops at folk festivals like the now-defunct Border Gaitherin and the Scots Fiddle Festival.
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Lori Watson was a Senior Tutor at Glasgow Fiddle Workshop for 10 years and taught fiddle on the Folk and Traditional Music degree at Newcastle University for six years.
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Lori Watson is currently a lecturer in Scottish Ethnology at the University of Edinburgh.