The Kelly Girls are pleased to announce we have a new fiddler! Diane Collier has stepped onto stage, into the merriment, and has already endeared herself to our audience! We’re delighted to tell you the band is back and ready to receive gig requests and welcome audiences through out New England!! Diane replaces our wonderful friend and fiddler for many years, Mel Kerwin, who needed to bow-out for personal reasons. 

Diane has been a member of the NH Fiddle Ensemble for ten years and a member of the Board since inception. For 25 years she has run her own type design and development company specializing in non-Latin scripts. Diane works with Microsoft, other software companies and individual designers and calligraphers worldwide. It is type that brought her to “fiddling” after a conference in Dublin where she fell in love with the fiddle. After returning she bought a violin, found Ellen and the Ensemble and has not looked back.

We hope you’ll help us welcome Diane to the band at Owen and Ollies Pup and Restaurant in Dracut, MA on March 15, 2025.