Pamela Swing

Pamela Swing was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She has a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Folklore from the University of Texas. Her doctoral dissertation is on the program of teaching traditional fiddle in Shetland Island Schools.

She has exhibited her photographs in many solo and group shows in the Boston area as well as other parts of the country. Her second show was featured as a Special Event in the Boston Sunday Globe Northwest Weekly. In 2001, she received an honorable mention from the Concord Art Association. She has a three-year grant for school workshops from Community Foundation Silicon Valley, and has also received funding from the Georges River Educational Foundation. Some of her Maine photographs appear in Camden-Mid Coast: A Photographic Portrait (2001).

While doing research in the Shetland Islands of Scotland, she co-authored (with Tom Anderson) a classroom textbook of traditional Shetland Island fiddle tunes and stories, illustrated by Shetland children, called Haand Me Doon Da Fiddle (1978), which is still used in Shetland Island schools.

Pam lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.