Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Sessions & Workshops

As well as a full concert schedule we have a huge and varied range of music & dance workshops and sessions at the festival; and tailor these to cover all ability levels from improvers right through to the more experienced.

The full details of these events all come together a little later in the year, but we’ve already finalised our Irish Session.

We have LĂșnasa at the festival this year, and are pleased to confirm that Kevin Crawford, the band’s World Class Irish flute player will lead our Irish Session.

This is a rare opportunity for festival attendees to come and join in a session and share a tune with one of the World’s finest Irish musicians – everyone’s invited, and it’s guaranteed to be a memorable session for all!

We’ll post more details closer to the event, as well as information on the other sessions and workshops.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Neil

We really enjoyed 2007 at the new venue and we’re really looking forward to seeing the Oyster Band, Bellowhead, Richard Thompson and all the rest of the great line-up in 2008.

There were three things which we felt weren’t quite right and we just wanted to mention them :

We enjoyed the open mic in 2006 but when we tried to sign up in 2007 we found the booking list had been posted before the allotted time stated in the programme and there was no room so we wondered whether it could be held by one of the stewards somewhere ?

We’ve enjoyed Ian and Fi Carter’s big session from it’s beginnings in Bridgnorth but we did not like the location in the bar and we wondered whether it could be in another place such as the open-mic marquee ?

We wanted to go to the tunes workshop but it was partly at the same time as the session above and we didn’t want to lose our seats so we wondered whether they could be separated as we know quite a few other people who had to make a difficult choice and once again perhaps both could be held in the same marquee.

We’d like to end by thanking all the volunteers who make this event so unique with special mention of Terry and Jill who helped us out when we got stuck at the quarry in 2006 !!

Best wishes

Neil and Julie

www.songsmith.org.uk

www.myspace.com/neilandjuliesmith