Concertina part-playing sessions @ Chippenham Festival

[Valmai Goodyear]

Spare Parts Concertina Band are running three concertina part-playing sessions at the Chippenham Festival, Wiltshire, England, which is taking place on 27- 30th. May. The Festival website is http://www.chippfolk.co.uk/.

 

If you'd like to look at the music in advance, Bryan Creer has put the three-part arrangements on the Tunes page of the band website (http://www.sparepartsband.co.uk/SPTunes.php)as pdf and midi files (slow and medium speeds. Feel free to have a go at the tunes whether or not you're coming to the sessions.

 

The tunes are :-

Saturday 28th. May, Rose & Crown Coach House 4.30 - 5.30 (Event 287)

Father Angus McDonell, Bristol

 

Sunday 29th. May, Bear Hotel, 4.30 - 5.30 (Event 484)

Dick's Maggot, Jemmy Twinkles Wish

 

Monday 30th. May, Rose & Crown Coach House, 4.30 - 5.30 (Event 675)

Cutting Bracken, Pleasures of Salisbury

 

We're also running English tunes practice sessions for any instrument, and the music for those too is available from the band website. The practice sessions will be in the Rose & Crown Coach House immediately before the main daily English sessions.

 

The tunes are :- Saturday 28th. May, 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. (Event 228)

Bonny Kate, Little Burnt Potato, Elsey's Waltz, Huntsman's Chorus

 

Sunday 29th. April, 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. (Event 428)

Family Jig, In the Toyshop, Silverton Polka, Waiting for a Partner

 

Monday 30th. April 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. (Event 625)

Rope Waltz, Rosalie the Prairie Flower, Whose Jig, Shepton Mallet Hornpipe