Music In Our Roots

Tyneside Fiddle Alliance and Phoenix Chamber Folk Ensemble present Music in our Roots A celebration of new and old folk melodies from the North East and beyond, by two of the region’s leading community folk ensembles. Saturday 23rd November 2024, 7.00pm (doors 6.30pm) St George’s Church, St George’s Close, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 2TF. Tickets are £7 each…


Morpeth Community Strings

As part of the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering, I will be leading two Community Strings workshops, culminating in a performance at the Golden Gala Concert on the Friday night at the Gathering. These two workshops will be rehearsing arrangements of tunes I composed to commemorate the tricentenary of the Town Hall – all welcome, just turn…


Tyneside Fiddle Alliance Annual Concert

The Tyneside Fiddle Alliance will be performing their annual November concert in St Mary’s Heritage Centre, where we meet on the first and third Thursdays of the month between 6.30 and 8.30 pm. The group continues to go from strength to strength and is a wonderful example of community music making. In the concert this…


Tyneside Fiddle Alliance Concert

Tyneside Fiddle Alliance Concert Thurs 23rd June, 7.30pm Rehearsals have been going extremely well for the TFA concert, and we have had fantastic attendances at recent meetings. St George’s Church in Jesmond is a beautiful venue with great acoustics in which to play, so come along for a real treat of a concert from the…


Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering

Fri 1st – Sun 3rd April @ Morpeth The 49th wonderful Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering will be taking place during the 1st weekend in April this year. “An exciting three-day annual festival of street entertainment, indoor events, music, dance, craft, dialect, heritage and traditional fun!”  I will be involved on the Saturday, playing for the clog competitions…