Concertina part-playing sessions, Whitby Folk Week 2009

[Valmai Goodyear]

Dear Everyone,

 

CONCERTINA PART-PLAYING at WHITBY FOLK WEEK , 22 - 28 August 2009 (UK) with SPARE PARTS CONCERTINA BAND

 

http://www.whitbyfolk.co.uk/index.html

 

Spare Parts (Bryan Creer, Suzanne Higgins and I) are running part-playing sessions for all concertina systems in the Conservative Club bar every morning from 10.00 - 11.20 from Sunday until Friday. We'll be taking two sets of the arranged tunes we've worked on to the final workshop concert at the end of the week. These are less complicated than formal band settings, but give people the chance to play together in harmony.

 

Thanks to a lot of hard work by Bryan Creer, all the tunes are on the band website http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php as pdfs and MIDI files. The MIDIs are in two versions, one normal speed and one slow for practising. The whole selection is also there as a single Word document.

 

On Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday we'll work on Pleasures of Salisbury and Gussondall Bay as a set; on Monday, Wednesday and Friday we'll do the same for Nameless and Miss Sackville's Fancy.

 

To provide variety we'll also play The Silver Swan, Peaceful Western Wind, Whinshields Hornpipe and Centenary March, but we're not aiming to get those ready for performance. The other tunes (Man in the Moon, Lovesick Polly, Quasimodo's Polka and Nancy's Fancy) may get an outing if people want, but are really coming with us as extras.

 

Do get in touch if you can't make them work or want any help. If you want to concentrate on tunes which will definitely come up during the week, stick to Pleasures of Salisbury/Gussondall Bay and Nameless/Miss Sackville's Fancy.

 

Valmai

[Valmai Goodyear]

I hope everyone who came to the sessions had as good a time as we did. This was our first time at Whitby and we thought it was terrific. We now have leg muscles like pit ponies and are bathed in a warm glow. At least, I think that's what it is.

 

The tunes will stay on our website until the run-up to our next festival outing at Tenterden in October.

 

Tootle pip,

 

Valmai

[chris]

Hi

good sessions. The hills are 'interesting' aren't they

see you at witney

chris