Fiddlers Restrung Presents Winter Hometown Concert in support of

Toys for Tots 

For the past four years, Fiddlers Restrung has provided a great kickoff to the Saline Fire Department's Toys for Tots campaign drive. The tradition continues this year with Winter Hometown Concert on Sunday, December 4th at 2 pm in Ellen Ewing Auditorium at Saline High School.
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Fiddlers ReStrung Welcome Autumn at Clinton Fall Festival

Clinton, September 23-24, 2011. September in Michigan brings a new school year, crisp weather and shorter days. It can also inspire flights of alliterative fancy to describe fulsome foliage, football fanatics, fall festivals and of course Fiddlers ReStrung.

For 38 years, downtown Clinton, Michigan has hosted an Annual Fall Festival featuring feasts of food, fun and fine arts over three days. This year’s festival attracted the largest crowds in Lenawee County enjoying gorgeous autumn weather and a variety of entertainment and activities for the whole family.

Each of the past three years Fiddlers ReStrung has been invited to perform at the Clinton Fall Festival, and this year they were featured performers on the sound stage on both Friday and Saturday evenings. The 2011-12 edition of Fiddlers ReStrung entertained the audience crowding the stage at the festival with a familiar format of their favorite songs mixed in with new material they began integrating into their repertoire this summer.

The group performed a wide-ranging set each evening with an energetic mixture of music from Celtic to bluegrass highlighted by nimble dance steps. The appreciative festival audience included several young fans who took to the dance boards themselves to show off their own original interpretations of step dancing to accompany crowd pleasers such as “Appalachian Joy.” The group serenaded their own student technician, Daniel Westfall, to the tune of “Big Daniel” as he accompanied the song with his percussive “bones.”

New songs introduced at the festival by the group included “Salt Spring” with solos by sophomores Mehul Kulkarni, Lee Luckhardt and Natalie Zimmerman; “D is for Pitnacree”; and “Sweetwater Sea” which featured senior keyboardist Marielle Driskell on vocals.

Fiddlers ReStrung is a 21-piece string ensemble featured at over 80 performances annually consisting of students at Saline High School, all of whom share in producing a unique ensemble truly their own. The organization is officially sponsored and supported by Saline Area Schools and Saline Community Education. Students are chosen based not only on musical talent, but personal maturity as well balancing a demanding performance schedule while maintaining high standards in other school activities, sports, and academics.

For additional information on this event or Fiddlers ReStrung, please contact Rebecca Groeb-Driskill, Cultural Arts Specialist, Saline Area Schools at (734) 429-8000 ext. 2338 or at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Fiddlers ReStrung to Tour East Coast on “Colony Coast Tour” June 26 – July 6

Saline, June 20, 2011. Saline’s Fiddlers ReStrung will be “getting on the bus” with all their gear, musical instruments and personal effects to take their high-energy entertainment on their annual summer tour Sunday, June 26. This year’s tour is booked as the “Colony Cost Tour” and will take the group to the historic roots of the U.S. republic in Philadelphia, New York City, Connecticut and Boston. Before returning home on July 6, the group will make a stop in Pittsburgh for a tour of Carnegie Mellon University and a noon performance on campus there.

Highlights of this year’s tour include a rehearsal audit with the Boston Pops Orchestra on July 3 as the symphony prepares for its annual July Fourth concert in the city called “The Cradle of Liberty.” Fiddlers ReStrung members will also attend a workshop with renowned Irish fiddler, Sheila Falls, while in Boston that day. Falls is active as both a performer and recording artist and a member of the fiddle-based band called “Childsplay.” She is also a member of “Classical Tangent”; a Boston Symphony based group which performs in a variety of World Music genres

The tour includes performances in a variety of venues in Philadelphia, Madison, CT, Pittsburgh and West Mifflin, PA, among other locations along the tour. Downtime activities include a Philadelphia Tour Day, New York City Tour Day, Boston Tour Day, beach park and amusement park fun and fireworks in State College, PA on July 4th.

Fans of Fiddlers ReStrung can follow the tour by visiting the group’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ReStrung.  

Fiddlers ReStrung is a 21-piece string ensemble featured at over 80 performances annually consisting of students at Saline High School, all of whom share in producing a unique ensemble truly their own. The organization is officially sponsored and supported by Saline Area Schools and Saline Community Education.  Students are chosen based not only on musical talent, but personal maturity as well as balancing a demanding performance schedule while maintaining high standards in other school activities, sports, and academics.

For additional information on Fiddlers ReStrung, please contact Rebecca Groeb-Driskill Cultural Arts Specialist, Saline Area Schools at (734) 429-8020 or visit the website www.fiddlersrestrung.com.



at Saline Middle School on Saturday, May 7

Saline, February 16, 2011.  Fiddlers ReStrung is pleased to announce that Saline native and local favorite Jeremy Kittel and his Jeremy Kittel Band will appear with the Saline group at their Spring Hometown Concert at Saline Middle School on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 7:00 pm.

The concert is certain to be a much in demand event and represents a homecoming for Jeremy after a grueling schedule that has included the release of a new CD.  He has performed multiple times with Fiddlers ReStrung in the past, and of course is an alumnus of the Saline Area Schools program precursor group, the Fiddlers Philharmonic.

Fiddlers ReStrung Recharge During Winter Camp

in North Woods of Michigan

2011 Fiddlers ReStrung Winter Camp
Double JJ Ranch, New Era, Michigan
February 18 - 20

New Era, Michigan – Taking advantage of the Presidents Day weekend break from school over the weekend of February 18-20, members of Fiddlers ReStrung participated in their annual winter camp at the Double JJ Ranch in New Era, Michigan.  Departing bright and early from Saline High School on Friday morning, the group and their parent chaperones caravanned across the Lower Peninsula on their trek to the great North Woods for 3 days of relaxation, comradery and fun, with a dose of rehearsing and new music learning thrown in for good measure.