Diane Kelday
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A regular Orkney Folk Festival performer, yet making her first festival appearance as a soloist in 2010, Diane is a highly accomplished player. She is a long-serving member of Shoramere and the Orkney Traditional Music Project, with whom she now tutors, and is also a former leader of the Orkney West Mainland Strathspey and Reel Society – so will be a familiar face, and sound, to Fiddlers’ Rally regulars.
Although primarily a fiddle player, Stenness-based Diane is a seasoned multi instrumentalist, boasting the piano, bodhran, guitar and piano accordion as some of her many talents. Having also picked up the bagpipes in her spare time, she has recently begun performing with the Kirkwall City Pipe Band. It is the Orkney style of fiddling for which she is best known, however, and this which she will showcase at the festival.
Diane will be accompanied by Shetland pianist Jenny Keldie.