We're really proud of the variety of sessions that happen at Shrewsbury, Izzy and his team do a fantastic job at organising these and they always end up being a highlight for anyone who takes part or even just wanders in and listens!
Here are the details of the Tuneworks sessions that will be held at the festival this year....
Tuneworks Beginners Session
This session uses the beginners tunebook available on the festival
website - from the homepage follow the link to Tune Workshops. The
tunes are all tried and tested session standards and are backed up
with some audio files that will give you an idea of the speed. The
idea is that you learn them at home ready for the session. We will
play plenty of repetitions of each tune allowing you to get them
firmly under your fingers in a session environment. Bring your own
tunebook!
Tuneworks Improvers Session
This session uses the improvers tunebook available on the festival
website - from the homepage follow the link to Tune Workshops. With a
wider range of tunes that incorporates those learned in the beginners
sessions, the pace will be slower than at a normal tune session,
giving learning musicians the chance to practice in a larger session
environment. These sessions have been great fun in the past and we
look forward to sharing a tune with friends old and new! Bring your
own tunebook!
Tuneworks Follow On Beginners/Improvers
Last year, many musicians wanted to keep playing after the beginners
and improvers sessions so if you make your way to the Tuneworks
noticeboard in the food tent you'll probably find a gang of fellow
tune addicts ready to kick off again!
Tuneworks Full Speed Session
A chance for everyone to have a blast before the end of the session -
using the tunebooks means you'll know at least some of the tunes, and
get to hear and play them at full speed!
Tuneworks Turn Up and Play Sessions
A few of the Tuneworks staff will meet you at the Tuneworks
noticeboard in the Food Tent and help you get some tunes from our
tunebooks on the go - a good chance to unwind after or before seeing
some of the other great music available at the festival!
Tuneworks Beginners Coaching Fiddle
Kitty Greenwood is an experienced fiddle teacher who can help you get
to beginners session standard. Concentrating on a tune or two from the
beginners tunebook, she will help you to get those all-important
techniques right from the word go! You'll need to bring a fiddle along
to this workshop.
Tuneworks Beginners Coaching Whistle
Rob Pierce is a great flute and whistle player - just the person to
get you going on a tune or two from our beginners session book. You
will need a D whistle or a flute to participate in this workshop.
Tuneworks Uilleann Pipes Course
Jim Carroll is fast becoming one of the country's most respected
Uilleann Pipemakers and has a vast wealth of knowledge of playing
Irish music on a range of instruments. Turn up at the first session
and he will arrange how best to teach attendees over the weekend.
Storytelling
Tim O'the Oak will entertain everyone in the family with his
fascinating stories. A real festival find last year, Tim is one of the
country's best loved storytellers and brings an animated and energetic
style to each night's bedtime story.
Irish Session
After a number of very popular sessions last year, our friends from
Nottingham are back for a session each evening. A great chance for you
to get involved or sit back and listen!
8 comments:
What a fantastic range of options for people - really looking forward to the festival! Thanks for putting this together! When/where will the storytelling be?
Hi Cassy - will try and get back to you later today with the full details on storytelling.
Cassy - the bedtime stories for children are on the village stage at 19:30 on Saturday and Sunday.
Hi Folks
Im Fliss Burke and Im one of Izzy's helpers. I suspect Im going to be helping start sessions from the tunebook. I play English concerting, and guitar.
I organise a Folk music practice session at The Birchmeadow Centre, Broseley - Sunday mornings 10am-12.30pm. We are using Izzy's tunebook, plus one we have compiled ourselves.
Look forward to meeting you.
Fliss
Hi - I'm learning the melodeon - G/D - where do I fit in ??? Jules
Jules - I'll pass your comment on to Izzy...look out on here for the reply.
Julia - depends what level you're at and what tradition you're more likely to play. Have a look at the Improvers session - if it's too fast the beginners session may be right and if not, you know the level of each for next year. The beginners session is about the speed of the sample tunes on the tunebook page.
There will also be follow on sessions in the food tent after the beginners and the improvers, and also the turn up and play slow sessions in the afternoon and early evening. Depending on who turns up for these we will aim to put people into groups with players at an equivalent level and leave you to your own devices. Then later, and for experienced players, Irish tunes in the beer tent and and a lot of the time there are English tunes in the members bar.
When you are learning it's important to use your ears as much as your fingers, so do a lot of listening and ask for a title if there's a tune you like.
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