Coracle: Early Music for Folk Musicians workshop, Lewes Saturday Folk Club

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Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 305 - CORACLE https://coracleband.co.uk/ EARLY MUSIC FOR FOLK MUSICIANS WORKSHOP for any instrument

Places £45 (2 under-25-year-olds £22).  Email valmaigoodyear@aol.com to reserve places, bring cash on the day

Paul Hutchinson (Belshazzar's Feast) Karen Wimhurst (Welsh National Opera, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, jazz) and Anna Tam (Mediaeval Baebes) blend traditional music and song in enthralling alchemy with elements from Early Music, classical and jazz. They sing and play accordion, clarinet, nyckelharpa, hurdy gurdy, cello and viola da gamba.

The workshop will explore places where Early Music & traditional music intertwine.  The1st Edition of Playford's Dancing Master published in 1651 was one of the first manuscripts to draw on tunes from the oral folk tradition and capture them in print. We will take some of these tunes and together explore how we can bring them alive today in a folk ensemble setting. Some music will be sent out in advance.

CORACLE PERFORM AT LEWES SATURDAY FOLK CLUB IN THE EVENING (£15: email valmaigoodyear@aol.com to reserve tickets, bring the right money in cash on the night)

Timetable 10.45 Registration & coffee; please order lunch at the bar (refreshments not included). 11.00 In this session we look at tunes focusing on different textures within the group & how this can feed into an arrangement of the material. 12:30 Lunch 13.30 Creating intros and outros, transitional passages and modes including changing time signatures. 15.00 Tea/coffee break 15.15 In this last session we will put together a 5-minute performance from the best of our workshop material to share in the evening. 16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Some music will be sent in advance, and maps and accommodation lists on request. The club meets in an upstairs room with handrails on each side of the stairs but no stair lift. Assistance dogs only please.