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…
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We have been enjoying these weekend workshops on Zoom tremendously, and whilst we still can't run workshops in person they are a great way to continue playing and learning.Friday's evening play-along session is open to all instruments, and the notation (with harmony and chord suggestions) and audio files of the tunes will be provided in advance. 🎻🎹🎸🎷🎺🪕 (yes, transposing instruments and other clefs are welcome and will be catered for! Please get in touch early to request details)
🎻 The two fiddle workshops on Sat 22nd May will each teach a tune, phrase by phrase with all the tips and techniques required to bring the tune off the page - once you know the trick to playing any awkward passages you’ll wonder what the problem ever was! The morning workshop will look at John Sheahan’s beautifully lyrical tune, Marino Casino, and in the afternoon we will explore a terrific Northumbrian rant by legendary piper Chris Ormston, Saint Cuthbert Crossing the Rhine.
Notation and audio files are provided in advance and recordings of the Zoom calls will be available afterwards for participants to replay on demand. 🎧💻
Full details and links for booking are here:
www.stewarthardy.co.uk/may-workshops-2021/
Play-along Session in Harmony: Fri 21st May, 7.00 - 9.00 pm
Fiddle Workshop 1: Sat 22nd May, 10.00 am - 12 noon
Fiddle Workshop 2: Sat 22nd May, 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Workshops are £20 each, 2 workshops for £35, or 3 for £50
Two years ago today our ensemble Woolsington Strings played at the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering. Here's a snippet of one of the tunes, Majas Brudvals - a Swedish bridal march by Fredrik Lindh.It will be so lovely when we are allowed to get together and play some glorious fiddle harmonies once again!
We have been enjoying these weekend workshops on Zoom tremendously, and whilst we still can't run workshops in person they are a great way to continue playing and learning.Friday's evening play-along session is open to all instruments, and the notation (with harmony and chord suggestions) and audio files of the tunes will be provided in advance. 🎻🎹🎸🎷🎺🪕 (yes, transposing instruments and other clefs can be catered for! Please get in touch early to request details)
🎻 The two fiddle workshops on Sat 22nd May will each teach a tune, phrase by phrase with all the tips and techniques required to bring the tune off the page - once you know the trick to playing any awkward passages you’ll wonder what the problem ever was! The morning workshop will look at John Sheahan’s beautifully lyrical tune, Marino Casino, and in the afternoon we will explore a terrific Northumbrian rant by legendary piper Chris Ormston, Saint Cuthbert Crossing the Rhine.
Notation and audio files are provided in advance and recordings of the Zoom calls will be available afterwards for participants to replay on demand. 🎧💻
Full details and links for booking are here:
www.stewarthardy.co.uk/may-workshops-2021/
Play-along Session in Harmony: Fri 21st May, 7.00 - 9.00 pm
Fiddle Workshop 1: Sat 22nd May, 10.00 am - 12 noon
Fiddle Workshop 2: Sat 22nd May, 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Workshops are £20 each, 2 workshops for £35, or 3 for £50