Rachel Huggins
Rachel Huggins is the Creative Director at Dragon Song Productions and, as an ideas person, breathes life into the Dragon Song Production shows.
Rachel started her career training in Community Drama and worked with Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh.
Rachel then moved to London, where she worked in a variety of roles before returning to Edinburgh in 2008 to run a hugely successful preschool music franchise, teaching over 12000 children in the capital.
Rachel is a preschool music specialist who has won many awards for her classes and has a unique way with children.
Rachel captures her audience’s imagination and is an animated storyteller, leader and musician. Rachel’s experience and understanding of preschool children has been a fundamental part of developing Dragon Song Productions, and she continues to develop new shows and books for the company.
Rachel has written and developed the following titles under the Dragon Song Productions banner.
· Moon Dragon - 2019
· Sea Dragon - 2022
· Dragon Tales - 2023
· Ice Dragon – 2023
Rachel also writes for Dragon Song Press
· Moon Dragon – published January 2024
· Sea Dragon – published July 2023
· The Sea Gulls Tale – published March 2024
Corrina Hewat
Musical Director
Corrina Hewat has been writing music since she was a child, and having achieved an Honours Degree in Pedal and Lever Harp, she turned professional in 1994. From 2012-2022 she was the Principal Scottish Harp tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and coordinated the Celtic Connections Festival workshop series from 2017 - 2020. She leads the Edinburgh Scots Folk Choir Sangstream, and the Health in Harmony Choir in Melrose.
Nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards, she won Tutor of the Year for Harp in 2013, nominated again in 2020, and she has also been a recipient of a Creative Scotland Artists Bursary to support her songwriting.
Corrina has 14 record releases under her own/band names and has appeared on over 50 other record releases as a session musician, composer, arranger, and producer. She has also written for larger chamber ensembles such as McFall’s Chamber. She co-directed Scots folk-jazz supergroup The Unusual Suspects and won the Creative Places Award from Creative Scotland in 2015 along with her Pathhead Music Collective. She received a Creative Scotland Artists award for songwriting and a Women in Music award for composition.
She has worked with a range of artists from Bobby McFerrin to Karine Polwart, Eric Bibb to Carol Kidd, and has supported such artists as Richard Thomson, Indigo Girls, and is very happily now a Dragon Song writer and performer.
Corrina has written and developed music and text for the following titles under the Dragon Song Productions banner.
· Moon Dragon 2019
· Sea Dragon 2022
· Ice Dragon 2023
Raggedy Rouge Puppets
Jane has always enjoyed the process of turning raw materials into something functional, amusing, or beautiful, and it's a bonus if the end produces all three! She adores the versatility of felt making and started developing puppets around 15 years ago using soft Merino wool.
She loves the playfulness and scope that making puppets brings and has enjoyed inventing and creating new characters over the years who seem to take on a life of their own!
Jane jumped at the opportunity to make puppets for 'Moon Dragon' at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and quickly became part of the creative team at Dragon Song Productions.
Jane made the amazing puppet characters for Sea Dragon and is currently immersed in creating new puppet characters for Dragon Tales - the interactive storytelling workshop- and Ice Dragon - the show launching in December 2023.
“It has been inspiring watching my creations being brought to life by the team at Dragon Song Productions. They weave each character into a captivating story and set it to beautiful music which the children adore. I never know where the stories will go next, but I love how fun each puppet character is. They truly have their own personalities, which I just love creating!”
Jane spends the rest of her year as a classroom assistant at a busy Edinburgh primary school and running Raggedy Rouge Puppets.
She has an Etsy page.