Dan Worrell

[Warren Fahey]

Greetings squeezers.

 

This is really for Australian subscribers.

Dan Worrell, author of the wonderful volumes on the Anglo Concertina will be presenting two illustrated talks at this year's National Folk Festival, Canberra, at Easter.

Full festival information available at www.folkfestival.asn.au

 

Be there.

 

Warren

[Rod Thompson]

I'll definitely be squeezing in.

[Patrick King]

Heh, just the year I can't go... pity.

My best friend is down in Canberra for a few years studying at the ANU and will be going along to the National Folk Festival... he plays the fiddle (he and I play a bit of both folk and classic.)

Being 18 next year I am going to head down there for the Festival definitely and am rather hoping that I'll meet a few players off here there next year!

I'm looking forward to it already!

[Alan Day]

Definitely recommended

Al

[Dan Worrall]

Thanks, Warren, Rod and Al,

 

I'm really looking forward to this....especially the prospect of at long last meeting so many great concertina players and Aussie traditional music folks in our planned mad dash across SE Oz. I understand that the beer is pretty good, too!

 

Saturday will be a potted and illustrated history of the Anglo concertina around the globe, with some emphasis on the Southern hemisphere. Sunday we'll look at the evolution of concertina playing styles, and take a look in particular at the one style that was most popular in the late nineteenth century heyday of the instrument, during the global house dance/wool shed dance era. I hope you will enjoy all that....that would make the mind-deadening endless air flight across the Pacific worthwhile.

 

Cheers,

Dan

[bushlass]

what terrible programming...on the Saturday the concertina session clashes with the Traditional music session or settler session and on the Sunday it is the first session in the morning and clashes with the Irish learners session... Not easy to make a 10 am slot if you are in the session bar until 3 am or later... however the dedicated players will desert the Trad and Irish tunes session to learn more. That 10 am is a bit early though. I imagine we will all be suffering!

[Dan Worrall]

what terrible programming...on the Saturday the concertina session clashes with the Traditional music session or settler session and on the Sunday it is the first session in the morning and clashes with the Irish learners session... Not easy to make a 10 am slot if you are in the session bar until 3 am or later... however the dedicated players will desert the Trad and Irish tunes session to learn more. That 10 am is a bit early though. I imagine we will all be suffering!

 

Well, please don't shoot the piano player ....I only volunteer here! If you oversleep, I will be repeating the talk in Melbourne on Friday May 6, where Mark McDonnell is setting up an evening at the Clifton Hill Hotel. Among many other things, Mark runs an Irish concertina session in that city.

 

Just saw this note; I've been away doing other things.

 

Looking forward to Oz.

 

Dan

[Ken_Coles]

If you oversleep, I will be repeating the talk in Melbourne on Friday May 6, where Mark McDonnell is setting up an evening at the Clifton Hill Hotel. Among many other things, Mark runs an Irish concertina session in that city.

 

And Mark and his session are well worth a trip; he made me very welcome there in 2006, hello to all the group there.

 

Ken

[bushlass]

Well, please don't shoot the piano player ....I only volunteer here! If you oversleep, I will be repeating the talk in Melbourne on Friday May 6, where Mark McDonnell is setting up an evening at the Clifton Hill Hotel. Among many other things, Mark runs an Irish concertina session in that city.

 

Just saw this note; I've been away doing other things.

 

Looking forward to Oz.

 

Dan

wasn't going crook at you...just the NFF programmers. Not the first time they have got something wrong. Many people interested would also be interested in the Settler sessions.... and 10 am....bit of a hard ask to dedicated players who have been in the session bar until 2-3am. Unless you have attended a Nats and know our session bar this may be difficult to understand. Players, singers, dancers congregate after the evening dance and concerts and play sing, dance and drink often until daylight. It will be very hard to surface by 10 am and many people will have sore heads!

 

I don't do Melbourne. The 400k round trip just for a session and lunatic drivers are too much for me now!

 

I tried to put on a link to a session at the NFF , I was there that night this was one of many groupings and it was nearly 2am....