fiddle workshops uk


Fiddle Events UK
		email me: chris@fiddlingaround.co.uk thanks to Fiddle On magazine for most of this info Info on various fiddle styles at fiddlingaround.co.uk: ENGLISH IRISH SCOTTISH SCANDINAVIAN KLEZMER EAST EUROPEAN MIDDLE EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN INDIAN CHINESE MEXICAN OLD TIME CAJUN BLUEGRASS JAZZ WESTERN SWING
This page lists fiddle workshops and special fiddle events or fiddle festivals happening in the UK. Feel free to contact me with details of events you would like to see included.
	2013 March Fri 1–3 Mixed instrument Klezmer and Yiddish dance workshop with Deborah Strauss and others in Youlgrave, Derbyshire Info www.kleznorth.co.uk or 01457 853315 Sat 9 Fiddle Workshop with Tom Mcconville at Elephant & Castle, Lewes. Info from 01273 476757 or valmaigoodyear@aol.com Sat 9 Mellor Brook Fiddle Day workshops and ceilidh with Emma Sweeney, Cathy Geldard and others. Info from http://www.fiddlemusic.co.uk/mellor-brook-fiddle-day or 07745 493135 Sun 10–15 Fiddle Week with Stewart Hardy in Lincoln. Info from www.jsarts.co.uk or phone 0771376026 Fri 15–17 Fiddle Boot Camp! with Mairi Campbell in Lismore, Scotland. For more info visit: www.mairicampbell.co.uk Fri 22–24 The 10th Annual Niel Gow Festival walks, workshops, concerts in Dunkeld and Birnam, Perthshire with Pete Clark and others. Info from www.niel-gow.co.uk or 01350 728920 Tue 26 Nyckelharpa Workshop with Peter Hedlund at The Horseshoe, 26 Melior Street London SE1 3QP. Info from smallpiper@mac.com April Mon 1–5 Sore Fingers Weekend mixed instrument residential course on bluegrass and old time in Kingham, Oxfordshire. For more info visit www.sorefingers.co.uk Fri 12–14 The Art Of Improvisation with Mairi Campbell in Lismore, Scotland. For more info visit: www.mairicampbell.co.uk Sat 13–14 Blowzabella Style Workshop mixed instrument workshop with Dave Shepherd and others in Wantage, Oxfordshire. Info from jeremy@tozerofdevon.net Fri 19–22 Scandimoot 2013 workshops in traditional Norwegian music and dance with John Ole Morken, Mari Skeie Ljones (pictured) and others. Info from www.scandimoot.org.uk or 01721 722539 May Sat 11 learn a klezmer workshop with the London Klezmer Quartet at Norwich Synagogue, Earlham Road, Norwich. Info: christianeguenther@talktalk.net Sat 11–18 Old-time Music Workshops ixed instrument workshop with Dave Bing,Kate Lissauer and others. Info from Kate Lissauer klissauer@mbzonline.net Sat 18 Absolute Beginners Fiddle Day with Stewart Hardy in Lincoln. Info from www.jsarts.co.uk or phone 07713760266 Sun 19 Beginners Fiddle Day with Stewart Hardy in Lincoln. Info from www.jsarts.co.uk or phone 07713760266 June Sat 1–8 Masterclass with Peter Knight in Limousin, France. Info from deblington@gmail.com, or call 07974 842950 Fri 7–9 Fiddle Weekend with Stewart Hardy in Lincoln. Info from www.jsarts.co.uk or phone 07713760266 Sun 16–22 Guitar and Fiddle Workshop with Kevin Dempsey and Joe Broughton in La Moreau, France. Info from 0033 54695 9338 or visit www.creativevacances.com July Fri 5–7 Fiddle Festival of Britain workshops, concerts and sessions in Ardley, Oxfordshire. Info from www.fiddlefest.co.uk Fri 12–14 Mixed Instrument Weekend with Stewart Hardy in Lincoln. Info from www.jsarts.co.uk or phone 07713760266 Sat 20–21 Fiddle Masterclass with Peter Knight in The Cotswolds. Info from deblington@gmail.com, or call 07974 842950 September Sun 15–20 Fiddle Week with Stewart Hardy in Lincoln. Info from www.jsarts.co.uk or phone 07713760266 October Fri 4–6 Fiddle, Song And Step Dancing ith Mairi Campbell in Lismore, Scotland. For more info visit: www.mairicampbell.co.uk Sun 13–19 Blazin’ in Beauly ith Blazin’ Fiddles and friends in Beauly, Inverness-shire. Info from: www.blazin-fiddles.co.uk November Fri 8–10 Walking and Fiddling Weekensd essions, walks and fun in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Info from Robert Huxtable bobhuxtable@btinternet.com Fri 15–17 Fiddle Weekend ith Stewart Hardy in Lincoln. Info from www.jsarts.co.uk or phone 07713760266 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHRIS HAIGH is a fiddle player and fiddle teacher based in London: I have developed an easy way to teach improvisation for the fiddle, (some people call it bluffing!) and give workshops in schools, at festivals and every year at the London Fiddlers Convention. I have done many workshops at Sidmouth Folk Festival and at the Brigg fiddle Festival. I have done educational tours for Folkworks, and was involved in a long series of school performances by Mike Adcock's Last Dance Orchestra, funded by the national Lottery. I have taught jazz violin at Middlesex, Newcastle,and Brunel Universities and Truro College, and have been booked as tutor at "Hands On" fiddle weekends (Fiddles@Witney), and at the Wigmore Hall, and for Bedfordshire music services. Workshop subjects include improvisation, swing, klezmer fiddle, East European fiddle, Western Swing and composition of fiddle tunes. I also give private tuition. My books "Fiddling around the World" and "Any fool can write Fiddle Tunes" are published by Spartan Press; The Fiddle Handbook is published by Hal Leonard, Discovering Rock Violin and Exploring Jazz Violin on Schott. I've written articles for Fiddle On, Acoustic Musician, the MU Musician magazine and the American Old Time Monthly.