Hello! Welcome to the web site of Jan Fairley -

I am an experienced and passionate ethnomusicologist working as an arts and music journalist and broadcaster, writer and editor as well as researcher, lecturer, radio presenter and producer. I have a breadth of organising experience at home and abroad. I am a fluent Spanish speaker. I love travelling and have worked abroad (notably Chile 1971-3 and again in 1994) and researched in Cuba, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Finland.

Put my name into the search engine GOOGLE (and other search engines) and you will find links to many of the current and past pieces I have written

See also Who’s Who in Scotland where I have an entry courtesy of my time as director of The Edinburgh International Book Festival

Working as an independent researcher and freelance I wear various
Hats
viz the images for this website taken by French photographer Pascal Saenz!
which I hope bring a little humour to my CV!
Please follow the hats to find out details about my current and past work.

Are you looking for a researcher? Someone to write attention catching publicity or liner notes for your CD in good English? Are you needing something translated into English from Spanish or French or checked over for you? Someone to write features for your magazine? Interview someone for you? Ideas about how to promote your business? Then contact me!