Lucy Blane is a fiddle player, composer, and educator based in Dumfries and Galloway. Her work draws on a rich mix of experience across traditional music, environmental soundscape composition, and interdisciplinary education. Through performance, composition, and teaching, she explores creative ways of understanding and expressing the relationships between people and place.
Lucy has performed in a wide range of ensembles and venues across the UK, bringing together traditional fiddle styles with contemporary approaches to sound and storytelling. Her compositional work often engages with landscape, environment, and listening, weaving together acoustic instruments, field recordings, and collaborative processes.
Alongside her creative practice, Lucy designs and delivers interdisciplinary educational projects that encourage curiosity, creativity, and connection to place. She is currently working in one-to-one instrumental tuition, composition commissions, and ad hoc performances, while continuing to develop projects that bridge music, environment, and community.
Lucy is also able to offer:
Session hosting, recording, and workshop design and delivery
Please enquire via hello@lucyblane.com if you are interested in working with Lucy
EDUCATION
MA Music and the Environment
University of the Highlands and Islands
2020-2023
BMus(Hons) Folk and Traditional Music
Newcastle University
2010-2014
EXAMPLES OF PREVIOUS PROJECTS & EMPLOYMENT
Creator and Facilitator of Fiddle Group (Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries) 2024
CatStrand Youth Arts Co-ordinator (GCAT, New Galloway) 2021
Creator and Facilitator of interdisciplinary youth education projects (Scotland, North England) 2014 onwards
E.g. Music in Motion (Youth Music Initiative funded) – primary age project – music theory taught using juggling. Practical interdisciplinary inclusive project aimed to bring benefits of music and movement together