Lachlan Green

Lachlan Green in Norway, 2010

Accomplished fiddler Lachlan Green has played with the Canberra Scottish Fiddlers since 2000.

Lachlan has recently returned from a tour of Europe from June to October 2011. He attended music camps at Taransay, Dundee, Sweden and Germany, including Harald Haugaard's International Fiddle School 2011 at Bredstedt in Germany. He also went to HebCelt festival in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

Here's an MP3 recording of Lachlan performing with George Jackson from Brisbane at the final concert at the Taransay fiddle camp in July 2011:

Lachlan was invited to perform with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in its February 2011 production of Peer Gynt at the Sydney Opera House. Lachlan performed two solos with his Hardanger Fiddle. You can watch a recording of the concert here.

Lachlan has recently formed an exciting new musical group Cresswell Green, with Jo Cresswell (piano and concertina), Sarah Davies (fiddle) and Rita Woolhouse (cello). On 15 April 2011, Lachlan, Jo and Rita gave a fine performance as the support act at the Merry Muse in Canberra for Shetland Fiddler Chris Stout and Scottish Harpist Catriona McKay. Cresswell Green also performed at the Music at the Creek festival on 11-13 November 2011.

On 29 January 2011, Lachlan, Jo and Rita performed a Northern Theme Concert at Carey's Cave at Wee Jasper, to go with the chilly temperature of the cave. At the concert they played a range of Scottish and Scandinavian music to an appreciative audience.

Lachlan, Jo and Rita at Carey's Cave

Lachlan launched his solo career in 2009 with performances at several festivals and folk clubs in Australia and overseas, including a packed concert at the 2009 National Folk Festival , and a tour of Australian East Coast festivals in 2009/2010. Accompanied on guitar, bouzouki and bodhran by Phil Green, they play Celtic music influenced by a variety of styles from Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America.

Lachlan Green on the big screen at the 2008 National Folk Festival

Lachlan and Phil performed as a duo at the Woodford Folk Festival, held in Queensland from 27 December to 1 January 2010. Lachlan and Phil also played a week later at the Cygnet Folk Festival, held in Tasmania on 8-10 January 2010. Two weeks later they appeared at the Newstead Live! Music Festival, held at in central Victoria on 22-25 January 2010.

Lachlan christened his new (2010) Hardanger fiddle made by local Canberra luthier Graham McDonald on a mammoth tour of Europe from June to November 2010, including fiddle schools at Skye, Taransay, Dundee, Sweden, Spain, Denmark and the Shetlands.

Lachlan is an experienced teacher of the Scottish fiddle and has learned from some of the world’s best folk fiddlers such as Alasdair Fraser, Nancy Kerr, Chris Duncan, Catherine Fraser, Hanneke Cassel, Gregor Borland and Blazin’ Fiddles.

"The sweetness of Lachlan's playing is a spell you don't want to break. Steeped in tradition, his fiddle music is intense, delicate and moving." Nicole Murray, cloudstreet.

Lachlan Green sitting by Neil Gow's Fiddle Tree on the banks of the River Spey, Scotland

Demo recordings by Lachlan Green