The Bear Creek Reelers offers group music training and performance opportunities to a group of young musicians, aged from 9 to 14 years.

Some previous members of the group have now progressed to the Cairngorms Ceilidh Trail, but come back to help out from time to time.

The BCRs have been working very hard over the last few weeks with local musician Charlie McKerron and the fruits of their labour were heard on Thursday 17th June, when they performed at Inshriach as part of The Insider Festival.

Below - BCRs playing for the Cairngorms Chamber of Commerce at Balmoral Estate.

The Bear Creek Reelers take their name from a tune written by Aonghas Grant, the left-handed Lochaber fiddler. 'The Bear Creek Reel' was inspired as Aonghas was in a small plane during a tour in Canada and  looked down to see a bear lumbering across a river. He taught the tune to one of the band members, who in turn brought it back to the group and they adopted it as a signature tune and hence their name.

Below - The BCRs playing in the base station of Cairngorm Mountain - it's OK until the train approaches with a warning siren tuned to B flat!!