Cape Breton Traditional Style Fiddle Sets with Guitar Tablature
Leigh Cline plays guitar, synthesizers and Eastern Mediterranean stringed instruments such as saz and tambura.    He has lived in the Eastern Mediterranean and played in nightclubs, concerts and at festivals throughout the Balkans and Turkey and recorded with many folk musicians of the area.    Leigh has played with leading musicians such as Kostikas Tsakalidis, the legendary master of Pontic/Black Sea kemenche; with Chrysanthos, the finest exponent of Pontic singing; as well as with every major Pontic musician and singer. He has also worked with the renowned Cretan singer and lyra player Nikos Xilouris, various members of the Halkias, Soukas and Zervas musical families of Epirus, and with singers such as Yiota Lydia, Ilias Klonaridis, Stratos Dionysiou, Annoula Vassiliou, Stelios Perpiniadis and many other musicians of the region.     As a performer and mix engineer in the North American folk scene throughout Canada and the United States (including technical director and World Music researcher for the Toronto-based Mariposa Folk Festival), Leigh had the opportunity to learn directly from many legendary performers. Among these were Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, blues men Bukka White and Skip James, and country singers such as Maybelle Carter and Doc Boggs.    His critically-acclaimed solo CD, "Orient Express", is licensed in many Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and Central Asian countries.         Sandy MacIntyre (Cape Breton fiddle) is one of today's most prominent player and teacher of Cape Breton fiddling; he has also composed well over a hundred tunes, many of which have become classics of the Cape Breton style.    He grew up in Inverness, Cape Breton, NS; his mother Cassie was a well-known fiddler in her own right, while his father Ronald was a well-known singer of Gaelic songs.    Nowadays, Sandy performs and conducts workshops throughout the US, Canada, and abroad. He is a frequent staff member at the American Festival of Fiddle Tunes (Port Townsend, Washington), and at the Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp (Estes Park, Colorado). For the past twenty years he has been an instructor of the fiddle programme at the Gaelic College in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and he has performed for the last several years at Cape Breton's famed Celtic Colours Festival. His most recent CD is "Steeped in Tradition."