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Stewart Hardy and Mary Tyers are delighted to have been asked by Phoenix Folk to play at concert at the Watch House in Cullercoats on Friday 1st March at 7.30 pm.
Tickets are £12.00 and available from the Phoenix Folk website:
https://phoenixfolk.co.uk/events/folkwatchhouse-hardytyers/
Phoenix Folk are running a series of intimate folk concerts at Cullercoats Watch House, a unique and quirky venue in the heart of Cullercoats.
Stewart Hardy and Mary Tyers convert a long-time friendship into a joyful musical collaboration, weaving their way through the varied musical threads they share to assemble a delicious smorgasbord of musical styles and genres. Celebrated in their respective worlds of folk music and early music, the pair bring decades of professional experience at the highest levels to present an intimate, engaging and inspiring performance that leaves no boundaries untrodden. Expect fiddles, flutes, recorders and Mary’s gorgeous voice, all combining for a unique and entertaining jamboree of musical indulgence.
Apr
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Phoenix Folk are organsing their ‘Spring Thing’ on the weekend on 19th – 21st April. This is a their annual weekend get-together in Newcastle, aimed at tune players and singers, with a mix of sessions, singarounds, ensemble playing, performance, outdoor activity and social events.
Stewart Hardy & Ali Say have been invited to provide an informal concert on Saturday evening where we’ll be sharing a selection of our fiddle duets.
Get in touch with Phoenix Folk if you’d like more information.
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🎶 The Tune VaultWe are coming to the end of another cracking Block of workshops with North East Fiddle School. Many thanks to Grace Smith Music, Chris Meredith and Kevin Lees - Music for their fantastic tuition. Here’s one of the tunes I taught in a video tutorial series, heading for The Tune Vault - a favourite English jig, Flaxley Green Dance.
Flaxley Green Dance
A fabulous English jig - one of two sent by Robert J. Buckley to Cecil Sharp in the summer of 1911. Mr Buckley had collected tunes from a wheelwright in Abbots Bromley, William (or Henry!) Robinson, in the middle of the nineteenth century, including the celebrated Horn Dance.
Flaxley Green Dance | The Tune Vault
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Flaxley Green Dance- The Tune Vault by Stewart HardyA fabulous English jig - one of two sent by Robert J. Buckley to Cecil Sharp in the summer of 1911. Mr B...
Less than a month to go to our Arrangement Techniques course for mixed instruments, which will be my 100th residential JSArts course!* 🥳There is just one place left if you would like to join us. Get in touch quickly, so we can book you in with the venue - the beautiful Shepherds Dene near Riding Mill in Northumberland.
We will be learning a lovely selection of tunes, and choosing which to work on - exploring options for introductions & endings, varying instrumentation, creating harmony lines and different ways of accompanying the tune to produce alternate soundscapes and narratives. With a limited number of participants, there will be plenty of time to explore ideas from everyone. All instruments are welcome, and if you require notation in different keys or clefs, that can be provided. Dots and audio files are provided in advance, and any recordings from the weekend are sent on afterwards.
*There will be cake! 🎂😊
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Finally, a new tune for The Tune Vault, and to pick up where we left off, here’s another sparkling tune by Tyneside fiddle supremo, James Hill in the key of "F for vescence" 🤣Tykeside (James Hill) | The Tune Vault
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Tykeside (James Hill)- The Tune Vault by Stewart HardyThis enigmatically titled reel in F major is another gem by Tyneside fiddling legend James Hill. No tr...