Blowzabella – Celebrating 40 Years | gigs in the UK, January - May

Dates - Blowzabella

blowzabella.co.uk
Blowzabella (Facebook)

20th Audlem Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Day :: 11 NOV, Audlem Wharf, Shropshire St, CW3 0 Audlem, UK

(Facebook) 20th Audlem Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Day

▶ Rory Scammell @ Chemic Tavern: "Amazing night! #turnofthewheel"

WATCH > Chemic Tavern: "Amazing night! #turnofthewheel"

Turn of the Wheel, Chemic Tavern; 29 July, 2017; Leeds, England, UK

thanks to Scott Marshall

Hurdy Gurdy & Bagpipes Weekend – Halsway Manor, UK; 9-11 Feb 2018

Guaranteed to be one of Halsway’s noisiest weekends, this Hurdy-Gurdy takeover is a brilliant opportunity to get together with some of the best of Europe’s players in an intensive learning weekend of masterclasses, workshops,sessions and a Saturday night concert/dance. This course runs alongside the Bagpipes Weekend, in a frenzy of reeds, drones and buzzing things!

To the hurdy gurdy team we welcome Matthias Loibner from Austria, Cecile Delrue-Birot from France, along with the inimitable UK player Joel Turk. The weekend is hosted by Claire Dugué, hurdy-gurdy maker and repairer, and she’ll be available to help people get the most out of their instruments with tips  for maintenance.

For an extra £35, participants can stay until Monday morning, including supper and B&B. Please enquire when booking.

Who’s it For?

This course will be for players of the hurdy-gurdy of all ages and abilities!

Hurdy Gurdy Weekend – Halsway Manor


BAGPIPES –

A jam-packed programme of diverse bagpipe playing styles, with some of Europe’s top players. This course runs alongside the Hurdy Gurdy Weekend, in a frenzy of reeds, drones and buzzing things!

We will be exploring traditional English and Border Music plus new and traditional music for European Dance. We will look at different and more unusual dance rhythms (for example 3/2, 9/8) and various playing styles, and explore how we can express emotion though our playing. We will learn variations and the techniques of how we can work them into our playing.  We will do most of the learning by ear but music scores will be provided during the course to support our learning. We’ll split the group into
beginners-intermediate, and intermediate and above, and you’ll spend time working with both tutors. And of course, we will have a bit of fun too!

“It’s not just the wonderful workshop sessions with an extremely patient tutor, but also the camaraderie of the whole weekend that makes the Halsway experience so brilliant” Participant

For an extra £35, participants can stay until Monday morning, including supper and B&B. Please enquire at booking.

Who’s it For?

This course will be for players of bagpipes in G, of all ages and abilities!

Bagpipe Weekend – Halsway Manor



ON FACEBOOK: Halsway Hurdy-Gurdy and Bagpipes Week-end 2018

Robert Mandel in Concert on 8 - 13 MAY in UK

• Monday 8 May 2017, 7pm (see below)
Hungarian Cultural Centre London

• 10 May in Scarborough
eventbrite.co.uk
Radio Scarborough

• Transylvanian Hungarian Festival Góbéfest on 13 May in Manchester
gobefest.com

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Hurdy-Gurdy concert by Robert Mandel
The Hungarian Cultural Centre is delighted to present the famous Hungarian hurdy-gurdy player in a London concert

Monday 8 May 2017, 7pm
Hungarian Cultural Centre London
10 Maiden Lane, London WC2E 7NA

Before appearing live at the UK's first Transylvanian Hungarian Festival Góbéfest on 13 May in Manchester, Robert Mandel will give an exclusive live performance in the Hungarian Cultural Centre in Covent Garden London on 8 May.
A truly unique instrument will be presented on stage by the award-winning musician offering a vast range of music from medieval dances through baroque sonatas to arrangements of traditional Hungarian and Romanian folk dances.

After earning his degree in musical instrument making he received a scholarship from the German Music Council to study musical instrument restoration under Dr. John Henry van der Meer and Dr. Freidemann Hellwig in Nürnberg in the German National Museum (Germanisches Nationalmuseum). Mandel had the chance to spend a time in the famous musical instrument collection of the Paris Conservatory of Music (today in the Cité de la Musique) to study the original 18th century vielles.

In 1988 he became the chief manager of the Interconcert's "Musica Antiqua" department. In 1992 he founded his own company the Mandel Productions Limited Co.

His main fields of research are the 16-17th century renaissance instrumental music, the 18th century French chamber music, the 19th century musical instrument inventions and instrument marvels and the 20th century electrophones.

The Hungarian hurdy-gurdy player has gained worldwide acclaim appearing at festivals, gigs and on prestigious TV shows in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, Vienna and Sydney. He has recently been decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Hungarian Republic and the Hungaroton Classic Award.

Free but booking is required on bookings@hungary.org.uk.

For more information please visit the Facebook page of the Hungarian Cultural Centre.
Further live dates and instrument workshops are also in the pipeline. Keep up to date at the Website Gobefest.com

tickets:

Sandlings Sessions – February 3-5 | FolkEast‎ [UK]

FolkEast are delighted to host a weekend of workshops, intimate performances and dance at the stunning Snape Maltings in the heart of the Suffolk Sandlings. Work with...

Blowzabella 
Ian Stephenson
The Young’uns
Chris Wood
Miranda Rutter
Leveret

Taking place from early evening on Friday 3rd to late afternoon on Sunday 5th February 2017 , there will be the opportunity to work and play with some of the UK’s leading folk artists.

And in the evening, time to enjoy intimate and unique performances with the odd session thrown in and a splash of FolkEast frolics.

It is a real privilege to bring together such an extraordinary, informal gathering of folk artists and educators to share their skills, knowledge and passion with us. By Day, they will be running workshops to suit all interests and levels of experience and by night, their music making can be enjoyed in a series of intimate performances, sessions and collaborations.

Sandlings Sessions (Facebook page)

FolkEast dates for 2017 – 18th , 19th and 20th August. We hope to see you there! 

FolkEast (Facebook) | www.folkeast.co.uk

12 NOV: Audlem Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Day 2016; Audlem, South Cheshire, UK

Our annual bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy day will this year be on Saturday 12th November starting at about midday, and has moved back to its traditional home, The Shroppie Fly in Audlem, South Cheshire. All musicians of all abilities are welcome to come along, join in the session, and chat about all things musical. Anyone who is thinking of playing either bagpipes or the hurdy-gurdy will be welcome to try instruments (mine at least), and talk about the right and wrong ways to go about buying instruments or setting up and maintaining them.

Contact Geoff Turner on gyldageoff@hotmail.com, Ian Bloor on ikb@kinseycottages.org.uk or John Hardy on 01270 811446

Audlem Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Day 2016 (Facebook event page)

• SOLD ::: Neil Brook hurdy-gurdy | Geoff Turner [UK]

Geoff Turner posts:
Hurdy gurdy for sale. Selling this for the widow of a good friend of mine, who I played with for a few years. I would have it myself if I could afford it. It was made by Neil Brook, and is in excellent condition, having been purchased not long before he passed away. PM me if interested, instrument is in hard case, located in Cheshire UK, and is £2,700.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/25302145782/permalink/10153821228170783/

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• FOR SALE ::: Neil Brook hurdy-gurdy | Geoff Turner [UK] posts:Hurdy gurdy for sale. Selling this for the widow of a...
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▶ VENN playing a Kas a Barh at Horsley Dec 2015, plus ALMOND and the OLIVE

VENN playing a Kas a Barh at Horsley Dec 2015 - YouTube

Published on Dec 13, 2015 by MIKE SMITH

What a great night of music and dance it was.

ALMOND and the OLIVE - YouTube

Published on Dec 14, 2015 by MIKE SMITH

Me and Marcus playing Almond and the Olive ( by Cliff Stapleton ) at the Horsley Christmas Gig.....

5 DEC; Hull, UK: Celtarabia Yuletide Party at Kardomah94

Celtarabia at Cornucopia 2015

Celtarabia Yuletide Party at Kardomah94 Tickets, Hull | Eventbrite
Loudhailer UK
Saturday, 5 December 2015 from 19:30 to 23:30 (GMT)
Hull, United Kingdom

It's party time! High energy east/west fusion band - Celtarabia – are set to start the Yuletide celebrations at Kardomah94 on Saturday 5th December 2015.

Featuring some of this country’s finest world dance musicians, Celtarabia play the wildest cross-over music being made in England today. Quentin Budworth's Hurdy Gurdy playing is the magic behind Celtarabia’s unique sound, together with an incredible band of players including virtuoso hammer dulcimer player Amanda Lowe, ace drummer Alan Raw, and ex Red Guitars dub & slide bassist Lou Duffy-Howard, 

The band are consummate musicians and showmen & women whose wild fusion of Arabic, Andalucian, Celtic, Medieval music and contemporary beats is designed to get bodies dancing. Bring your dancing shoes! Visit http://celtarabia.com/ to find out more

With support from the fabulous John Cox and Dave Hughes

info & tickets

Efrén López Sanz to be in UK for three refugees benefit concerts in Oxford & London, Dec. 13-17

Efrén López Sanz (facebook)

 

For our friends in UK:
I'm so happy to announce that next December I'll take part in three refugees benefit concerts in Oxford and London! We are working on a wonderful repertoire with the following band, specially created for these events:

Efrén López Sanz: rabab, hurdy gurdy, ud
Michalis Kouloumis: violin
Rachel Beckles Wilson: ud
Nilufar Habibian: kanun
Kalia Baklitzanaki: vocals, nay
Merit Ariane Stephanos: vocals
Stavroula Constanti: ney

December 13, 20:00: Holywell Music Room, Oxford.
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1716915605206934/
December 15, 20:30; St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London. (https://www.stethelburgas.org/).
December 17, 20:00: DLT Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London. (https://www.soas.ac.uk/)

Thank you for your collaboration in spreading the word and supporting our cause!

Timeline Photos - Efrén López Sanz

Efrén López Sanz - Bourrées de la Carrasca de la Vaca

Published on Nov 11, 2015

Efrén López Sanz by uelguezn falke
on Hurdy-Gurdy Model "Dwarf"
www.Radgeige.de

https://youtu.be/rSEE8EHz6Xk

14 NOV: Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Day 2015; Market Drayton, UK

The Red Lion Inn

Great Hales Street, TF9 1JP Market Drayton, Shropshire, England UK

Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Day 2015 (Facebook)

Geoff Turner posts [September 17] - It's approaching that time of year again! Saturday 14th November sees the return of the Bagpipe and Hurdy-Gurdy Day, once again in the Mouse Room of the Red Lion in Great Hales Street, Market Drayton. This excellent pub, the brewery tap of the Joule's brewery, has good food and good beer, but it needs some good music. We will oblige between mid-day and 5pm as usual. I thank you.

12-14 FEBRUARY 2016: The 5th Big Hurdy-Gurdy Workshop Weekend at Halsway Manor

ABOUT

Our popular Hurdy-Gurdy Workshop Weekend is for players of all abilities. Early booking advised.

We welcome Spain’s finest exponent of the hurdy-gurdy (zanfona) – Germán Díaz– and the return of England’s most imaginative player of the instrument, Cliff Stapleton. Both experienced teachers, they understand the history of the instrument while taking it into new territory and often surprising directions through composition, improvisation and constant experiment. Claire Dugue, hurdy-gurdy maker and repairer of the highest quality and impeccable taste,  will be there to help people get the most out of their instruments with tips for maintenance. Beginners are welcome. Mike Smith is on hand to help people who want to participate in the weekend but may not feel ready for masterclasses and technique workshops. You will need to supply your own instrument.

THE TUTORS

Germán Diaz

Germán was born in 1978 in Valladolid, Spain, where he studied classical guitar and classical philology at the University of Valladolid and postgraduate studies in cultural Tradition. He studied hurdy gurdy with the likes of Rafael Martin, Pascal Lefeuvre, Laurent Tixier, Isabelle Pignol, Gilles Chabenat, Nigel Eaton, Patrick Boufard, Laurence Bourdin, Valentin Clastrier, and many more.

He has performed all over the world (Colombia, Brazil, Algeria, Russia, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Morocco, Slovenia, Finland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway, Moldova, Ukraine ...) in prestigious venues and festivals such as the Theatre Royal in Marrakech and the Miró Foundation -Barcelona -...

Germán has collaborated with numerous groups of artists and interpreters including Rao Trio, Viellistic Orchestra, Wafir Shekeldin Gibril, Pascal Lefeuvre, Valentin Clastrier, Joaquín Saura, Medieval Urueña Quartet and many, many more.

Cliff Stapleton

Cliff Stapleton is a prolific composer of beautiful and hypnotic music created for the hurdy-gurdy. He performs both solo and in groups, for theatre and for film. His past work ranges widely from contributions to the powerful folk dance style of Blowzabella to the electronic other worldly landscapes of Coil. For over 13 years he has been a member of Cyclobe who have recently performed several haunting and hallucinatory concerts at the invitation of both Antony Hegarty and Brian Eno.

Cliff is moved to create tunes and trance-like sounds that are unique to this ancient instrument, the hurdy-gurdy, and which bleed mercurially into the realms of magical improvisation.

Cliff will guide you, in detail, through techniques of fingering and musical expression using three simple melodies which relate to drone, no drone and with trompette rhythm. His aim will be to create a strong collective sound from all players in the class and a communal feeling of “being in the zone”. An ability to read music will help but good ears and eyes are essential. Be prepared to “be open” and to learn and enjoy his method for it is designed to enhance your music whatever your playing style

Claire Dugue

Claire will host this fantastic weekend as well as being on hand to talk about set up and instrument making. Claire spent 5 years studying musical instrument making in London. Claire set up her workshop in Ramsgate, Kent, in 2001. She specialises in making fine, hand made hurdy-gurdies.

While taking inspiration form the past, Claire's style is very individual.Using modern technologies, her instruments are reliable, responsive and easy to play. Carrying on traditional craft techniques, her hurdy-gurdies have a modern yet timeless beauty.

 

 

Halsway

ALSO (same time):
Jon Swayne Bagpipe Workshop Weekend 2016

For players of Jon Swayne border pipes and other compatible pipes in G.

Bagpipe maker and player Jon Swayne and bagpipe player Paul James have been playing pipes together all over the world for 36 years in the band Blowzabella. Jon will be tackling technique and teaching some fine English traditional tunes that work well on the pipes. Paul will be teaching techniques to help your bagpiping posture and relaxation while wringing a bit more emotion out of a tune through various fingering techniques. He will also be doing sessions for beginners who want to participate in the weekend without the pressure of being in a more advanced group.  You will need to supply your own instrument.
 

Music is not available in advance because the weekend is about styles, approach to music and techniques and tutors often change some aspects of what they will do to suit the participants on the day. Where tunes are taught there will be music provided for those who want it - or you can play by ear if you prefer... 

• Two Chris Eaton gurdies for sale

Mike Smith posted this on Facebook – 
Scott Marsh All is selling two lovely Chris Eaton hurdy gurdys. Message him for details. Here are a couple of pics. Photos 1 & 2 go together ....3 & 4 go together.

Mike Smith added 4 new photos – Scott Marsh All is selling two lovely Chris Eaton hurdy gurdys. Message him for...
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▶ Le Vent Du Nord 'Elise' | Le Vent Du Nord UK Tour July 2015

▶ Le Vent Du Nord 'Elise' - YouTube

Published on Apr 25, 2012

Renowned as ambassadors of Francophonie, Le Vent du Nord are acknowledged as one of the key groups in Quebec's traditional folk music revival. Since they formed in August 2002 the band have enjoyed great success which has allowed them to tour their music around the world. The Quebec-based quartet delight audiences with their mix of fiddle, guitar, accordion and hurdy-gurdy. They are renowned for their energetic stage presenations. On Thursday November 29th, at the Charles Trenet Auditorium in Paris, Le Vent du Nord received the Grand Prix du Disque 2012 'Musique du Monde' (World Music) from The Académie Charles Cros. The award was given in recognition of the band's latest album entitled Tromper Le Temps (Deceiving the Time) released on Borealis Records. borealisrecords.com

Le Vent Du Nord UK Tour July 2015

Fri 10. Moonbeams Folk Festival , Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby Grange, Wold Newton, Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 3HS
Tel: 01723 892222 See website for tickets and times.

Sat 11. Stonehaven Folk Festival , Stonehaven Town Hall, Allardice St, Stonehaven Aberdeenshire AB39 2BU (Evening Concert)
Tel: 07480 126320 Tickets £20.00 -- Doors 7:30 p.m.

Sun 12. Stonehaven Festival (participating in the afternoon events)

Mon 13. Lyth Arts Centre, Lyth, Wick, Caithness, Scotland KW1 4UD Tel: 01955 641434 Tickets £0.00 -- Doors 7:30 p.m.

Tues 14. Melvich Village Hall, Portskerra N. Sutherland, Scotland KW14 7YL

Thu 16. Music On The Marr, Town Foot Farm, Castle Carrock, Brampton, Cumbria LA8 9LT
Tel: 01228 670329 See website for tickets and times

Fri 17. Hebridean Celtic Festival , Lews Castle Grounds, Stornaway Isle of Lewis, Western Isles HS2 OXR
Tel: 01851 621234 See website for tickets and times

Sat 18. The Kirkgate Centre Kirkgate, Cockermouth, Cumbria CA13 9PJ
Tel: 01900 826448 Tickets £18.00 -- Doors 7:30 p.m.

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Le Vent du nord dates –
http://leventdunord.com/en/dates/

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1-8 AUGUST: Dartington, UK: Dartington International Summer School (1-29 August 2015)

@DartingtonSummerSch tweets: Really looking forward to having Stevie Wishart @LoganArtsMgmt with us for the first time @ ‪#‎DISS15‬ http://bit.ly/1yfLrZG  ‪#‎HurdyGurdy‬!

LoganArts Management @LoganArtsMgmt tweets: see Stevie in London 14 & 15 March at @nesta_uk's @FutureFest http://futurefest.org 

Dartington International Summer School · 1 - 29 August 2015

Week 1: 01 – 08 August
Medieval & Renaissance Music, Improvisation – and Ecology

Week 2: 08 – 15 August
Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Opera, Folk Music and Poetry...

dartington.org/summer-school

Hurdy Gurdy

STEVIE WISHARTHurdy gurdy player, improviser, composer, and Hildegarde of Bingen scholar – the multifaceted Stevie Wishart leads a class in this extraordinary medieval instrument, as well as improvisational techniques. (SESSION 2)

WEEK 1 –

Medieval and Renaissance Music, Improvisation, Jigs, Poetry – and Ecology

Week 1 combines the energy and brilliance of the Middle Ages, the Venetian grandeur of Gabrieli, and the incredible ‘wall of sound’ created by Thomas Tallis’s massive 40-part motet, Spem in Alium, guided by conductor Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra. Medieval and Renaissance players, singers and ensembles (and modern players and singers too) can receive expert tuition and guidance from The City Musick, Fretwork, Carolyn Sampson, Nicholas Clapton, Stevie Wishart and Carole Cerasi, then explore improvisational courses in the afternoon. Whether springboarding from Chaucer’s poetry with Alice Oswald, enacting the stage jigs and bawdy songs of 16th century theatre with Lucie Skeaping, fusing John Dowland and cool jazz with trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, or discovering fairy tales, medieval miracles and talking animals in Marina Warner’s lecture, this week will be colourful, action-packed and exciting. There’s a theme of greenery and ecology too, running through the programming: from sustainable instruments created by Junk Music, pastoral madrigals and nature poetry in the ancient gardens of Dartington, to Alec Roth’s stunning choral work Earthrise.

The concerts, too, encompass the pioneering early world, presenting European and South American motets performed by Ex Cathedra, Fretwork charting Sir Francis Drake’s 1577-80 journey on The Golden Hinde, Bach’s alpha-omega Goldberg Variations and Carolyn Sampson’s The History of the World in Seventeen and a Half Songs. And we literally encircle the Great Hall in our climactic Friday night concert, with Tallis, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, and choral poetry performed in the round, soaring to the rafters.

WEEK 2 –

Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Opera, Folk Music and Poetry

Week 2 is dramatic: it brings operatic virtuosity and brilliance to Dartington, alongside poetry, literature, Scottish ballads and storytelling. Laurence Cummings leads The Big Choir and Baroque Orchestra in dazzling, quasi-operatic choral works by Handel, Rameau and Charpentier. This week is about the art of singing: the expressive soprano Ruby Hughes, Violinist Adrian Chandler, and players from La Serenissima coach the Advanced Vivaldi Opera, while Emma Kirkby imparts her elegant wisdom to singers. There’s a team of Baroque tutors giving masterclasses in strings, winds, lutes and keyboards, and a Bach theme too, with Richard Tunnicliffe focussing on the Cello Suites, Maggie Cole on the Six Partitas and Artistic Director Joanna MacGregor running a Bach on the Piano course.

Folk, poetry and literature are an important part of the programme: Northumbrian pipes-player and fiddler Kathryn Tickell runs a folk course with Scottish theatre director Marilyn Imrie, and Sally Davies directs a Folk Choir. The writer James Runcie leads a creative writing course. Concerts burn with a poetic intensity, from John Dowland’s Lute Songs, Robbie Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid settings to Kathryn Tickell’s new ensemble, The Side, bringing together folk and classical worlds. A feast of folk music, poetry, Baroque brilliance and operatic fireworks.

also –

Renaissance Reeds, Recorders, Brass and Strings

WILLIAM LYONS, NICHOLAS PERRY AND GAWAIN GLENTON
Group and individual tuition with members of The City Musick, on shawms, crumhorns, dulcian, rackett, recorders, early violin, cornetts, sackbuts, bagpipes and renaissance percussion. (SESSION 2)

dartington.org/summer-school

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▶ The Ramsgate Hovercraft - album trailer - "Cinéma Vérité" | 28 FEBRUARY; Ramsgate, Kent, UK: THE RAMSGATE HOVERCRAFT with Claire Degue

The Ramsgate Hovercraft - album trailer - "Cinéma Vérité" [UK]
Published on Feb 1, 2015
Cinéma Vérité is the second album from The Ramsgate Hovercraft. Nearly 100 minutes of original, unclassifiable electronic music to fire your emotions and your motor neurons. The Hovercraft fashion their unique take on improvised experimental prog rock, krautrock, free jazz and the rest using instruments ancient and modern. 

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– Nearly 100 minutes of original, unclassifiable electronic music to fire your emotions and your motor neurons. The Hovercraft fashion their unique take on improvised experimental prog rock, krautrock, free jazz and others using instruments ancient and modern. 

All material written and produced by Mark Bandola and Kit Jolly. Recorded in Ramsgate, UK.
credits
released 01 February 2015 

Mark Bandola: guitars, keyboards, percussion
Kit Jolly: sax, recorders, keyboards
Claire Dugué: hurdy gurdy 

http://www.theramsgatehovercraft.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ramsgate-Hovercraft/833237553357495

The Ramsgate Hovercraft - album trailer - "Cinéma Vérité" - YouTube


album release concert –

28 FEBRUARY; Ramsgate, Kent, UK: THE RAMSGATE HOVERCRAFT with Claire Degue

The Ramsgate Hovercraft will be joined at the conclusion of the programme by Claire Dugue' on Hurdy Gurdy & perform tracks from the forthcoming album 'Cinema Vérité' . It's going to be a unique and memorable night. Commit to the commit.....

wegottickets.com/event/302732

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14 & 21 MARCH; Holmfirth & London, UK: Blowzabella Workshop Days

workshops & balfolk

Gregory Jolivet is doing hurdy-gurdy workshops; and Jon Swayne & Paul James are doing bagpipe workshops (all abilities including beginners, bagpipes in G)

• 14 MARCH; Holmfirth Civic Hall, Holmfirth
wegottickets.com/f/7756

facebook.com/events/640107979445481

• 21 MARCH; Cecil Sharp House, London
cecilsharphouse.org/component/content/article/21-shared/shared-events/2052-blowzabella-day

facebook.com/events/712548228862497

BLOWZABELLA DAYS 2015 – FULL INFORMATION – PDF DOWNLOAD  

blowzabella.co.uk

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20-22 FEBRUARY; Dunlewey Co, Donegal, IRELAND: Tionól Píobaireachta Thír Chonaill

Na Píobairí Uilleann is delighted to announce that we will be running our first regional piping tionól in Dunlewey Co. Donegal, titled, Tionól Píobaireachta Thír Chonaill from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd of February 2015. The venue will be the Óige Hostel in Dunlewey (Brú na hÓige, Dún Lúiche) and some events will also take place in the new community centre next to the hostel.

more info: Na Piobairi Uilleann

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13-15 FEBRUARY 2015; CROWCOMBE, SOMERSET, UK: HALSWAY 4TH BIG HURDY GURDY WEEKEND and JOHN SWAYNE BAGPIPE WEEKEND

Halsway Big Hurdy Gurdy Weekend, 2014; photo courtesy Mike Smith

Hurdy-Gurdy Weekend 

with Gregory Jolivet, Patrick Bouffard and Claire Dugue

& Bagpipe Weekend with John Swayne

at Halsway Manor

halswaymanor.org.uk
facebook.com/HalswayManor

halswaymanor.org.uk/portal/alias__Halsway/lang__en/tabid__4461/eventid__598/default.aspx 

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