Frances Wilkins, who is Visiting Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Scottish Music at the University of Aberdeen, has recently been awarded a small Research Grant in the Arts and Humanities from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The grant will be used for initial research into the fiddle music of James Bay, Ontario, and its links to the musical traditions of the Orkney Islands. She will be visiting the Orkney Islands and Canada in late 2011 to conduct field and archive-based research. Updates on her research will be published on her website. 

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