Workshop – Irish Session Tunes with Paul Lucas
Crampton Museum Hall The Broadway, Broadstairs, Kent, United KingdomLearn some simple tunes for playing in sessions, ability to read music not essential. Beginners welcome
Learn some simple tunes for playing in sessions, ability to read music not essential. Beginners welcome
A very popular part of Folk Week with daily guests. Paul also runs the Saturday morning workshop to introduce newbies to the playalongs. Mainly Irish tunes. Guests to be announced. This is a free event so please pop a donation in the collecting tin, thank you.
Learn the basics about how to hold a harmonica, play a 12 bar blues, find out what key you are actually in and when NOT to play. A 10 hold diatonic harmoinca in C is the ideal harmonica to bring with you if you can.
A friendly informal playaround for melodeons, accordions, concertinas – anything squeezy with master player Simon Care. I - Intermediate level
Be ready to sing, have fun and surprise yourself. This workshop is suitable for total beginners (aged 8 – 80+) and those who have made a start but cannot join chords together. If you have your own ukulele please bring it along, but we will also have 20 ‘spare’ ukuleles for people to borrow. workshops […]
If you can string the three chords of C, F & G together then you are an improver. But still be ready to sing, have fun and surprise yourself with some different strumming patterns. If you have your own ukulele please bring it along. If not there are 20 ‘spare’ ukuleles for people to borrow. […]
Brush up on your tunes and techniques with Banter's Simon Care. Dancing along allowed! intermediate level
Be ready to sing, have fun and surprise yourself. This workshop is suitable for total beginners (aged 8 – 80+) and those who have made a start but cannot join chords together. If you have your own ukulele please bring it along, but we will also have 20 ‘spare’ ukuleles for people to borrow. workshops […]
Nigunim are catchy tunes, often centuries old. We'll be delving into a selection collected from Jewish communities in Ukraine 1912-1946. All welcome - bring voices, instruments, or both! Led by Ilana Cravitz (fiddle, voice).
A session with one of the folk scene's most versatile fiddlers, focusing on texture, improvising over drones and ways to embellish simple tunes
If you can string the three chords of C, F & G together then you are an improver. But still be ready to sing, have fun and surprise yourself with some different strumming patterns. If you have your own ukulele please bring it along. If not there are 20 ‘spare’ ukuleles for people to borrow. […]
with Claire Haythornthwaite. Clare will guide you through European tunes suitable for dancing in the 2hr workshop, which you then play for the dancers in the latter half of the afternoon. Music notation available on request from ernestine.rybak1951@gmail.com. Intermediate level.
Rehearsal for performance. Beginners and Improvers ukulele greoups meet for a final rehearsal for the combined Ukulele Workshop Band at Workshop Show on Friday afternoon at the Sarah Thorne Theatre Beginners workshops: Monday 11th, Wednesday 13th, Improvers workshops Tuesday, Thursday . all together on Friday 15th finishing with a workshop show performance, (if you wish […]
