The Lockdown Halsway Bar Nyckelharpa Session 15 - The säckpipa edition

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Welcome to this week's session! This is a very special session as you'll discover when you watch it. This is the session that Jonny was too busy working elsewhere to be able to get to in time! So we have a motley crew this week! The tune list is all tunes that you can play on the Swedish säckpipa. (Don't worry, I'm still leading on nyckelharpa!) Some of the teaching videos are currently säckpipa lessons, but I will replace these in the next week!

The tune list is as follows:

• Långdans från Sollerön
• Menuetto efter Sven Donat
• Pollonesse efter Andreas Dahlgren Nr. 87
• Röra Röret
• Gärdsbygubbarnas Polska
• PDF of the dots
• Blog entry for this session

As we've said before, these sessions take a lot of time to put together and we definitely enjoy doing them. But I am up against a pretty hard deadline with the Virtual Halsway - so there may not be any sessions between now and then as I put together that weekend.

This leads me on to two little adverts!

The Virtual Halsway Weekend. I should have been at Halsway Manor on the 18th and 19th September with many other nyckelharpa players. As we can't do this I'm running some online workshops and session. You'll find all the information on my actual website - Click here! But we have Peter Hedlund, Leif Alpsj¨ø and Thor Pleijel doing some Zoom workshops. I am giving a nyckelharpa focussed Zoom concert in the evening. So check out the website and get yourself booked on!!

My second advert is for a Crowdfunding project I'm doing - an album of Dances from Terpsichore by Praetorius on nyckelharpa quintet. As of today I'm at 50% funded with three weeks to go.  Check it out!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hearts-eyes

See you at the session on Sunday!

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Vicki

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Swedish Tunes workshop at Whitby @ Home Folk Week

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I've just finished giving my workshop online in Zoom for Whitby Folk Week and we decided to make a video with as many participants playing along to this video as possible! If you've done a play-a-long for me before you'll know the drill! If not....
If you'd like the dots - CLICK HERE!

Update: I edited until midnight on the Thursday and got the video in! Thank you to everyone who came to the workshop and who sent me in videos!

• Flickan Hon Går i Dansen
• Springvals efter Ceylon Wallin
• Piggelunkschottisen
• PDF of the Dots
• Link to the Blog Entry

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Vicki

Whitby Folk Week - Online Playford Ball!

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This week we should have been at Whitby Folk Week. As with everything else it's been cancelled and put online. Which means that we can do a very cool thing this Wednesday. We were supposed to be playing for the Playford Ball on Wednesday with Purcell's Polyphonic Party. The closest we can get instead is for me and Jonny to play for the Ball in Zoom and this means that you can come along no matter where in the world you are! It takes place at 8-9pm UK time. on Wednesday 26th August. The ball is free but you do need to register to get a login. - REGISTER HERE! Donations to the festival are appreciated (and also to the artists, ie us)

So exclusively on this blog I am releasing the probable dance list and a tune pad so that you can play along if you want! It's totally live with a caller - no pre-record! So anything could happen!

So the dance list? Keep in mind that this might change and might not be the order and there might be technical hitches! (You never can tell!)

1. Mad Moll
2. Half Hannikin
3. Moll Peatley (The New Way)
4. Millions Jegge
5. Rufty Tufty
6. Barham Down
7. Epping Forest
8. PDF of the dots!

Hope to see some of you there!

:))

Vicki 

The Lockdown Halsway Bar Nyckelharpa Session 14 - Swedish Tunes

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The session on the 23rd August is another Swedish tunes session. These are all great tunes that are played in many Scandi sessions in the UK.  So here is the list and the lessons so you can get ready for the session next week! They're all my favourite tunes (as always!)

• Fanteladda
• Springvals från Valö efter Ceylon Wallin
• Polska från Östra-Ryd
• Hamburska efter Pehr Ericsson
• Skänklåt - Skålarna
• PDF of the dots
• Link to the blog entry

Enjoy!

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Vicki

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The Global Halsway Parade

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Since 2012 I have been gradually building up my nyckelharpa course at Halsway Manor. We get on average 45 nyckelharpa players gathering together at the large weekend in September. The courses have been growing and in 2019 I ran a beginners course, an advanced course and the festival weekend. This year everything has been cancelled. So I decided to take inspiration from the World Nyckelharpa Day and run something online at the weekend that we were supposed to be there. Click here to see the details of the day!

The first part of this jigsaw puzzle is The Halsway Parade. Each year we parade around the garden playing this tune. So I'd like two things - one is that people play this tune for real at 2pm UK time. The second is that I would very much like to edit together a large mosaic of as many nyckelharpa players around the world playing this tune as possible!

Below are the things that you will need:

1. The lesson teaching the tune
2. A full quartet of me playing the tune
3. The guide track for you to play along to and film yourself

The instructions:

• Film yourself playing along to the guide track. You must wear headphones so I can edit the video into one big ensemble.
• Email me your video using Wetransfer.com (or similar) to info [a] worldnyckelharpaday.com (change the [a] for @!

Then I will release the video around the weekend of the 19th September!

How many people can we get to join in? Let's see!

:))

Vicki

The Final Video

The LiveStream

The Tune Dots!

The Quartet - click here for a pdf

The Teaching Video

Guide Track with count in! (Wear headphones!)

If you'd like to download an mp3 to listen to from an mp3 player:

Right Click and download this file!

Quartet Version (no count in)

The Lockdown Halsway Bar Nyckelharpa Session 13 - Danceable Playford 3

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This week we have another Playable and Danceable session of Playford dances.  So grab your partners and your instruments! This session will be Premiered at 2pm on Sunday 16th August. We love all these tunes and also playing for the dances too. We're really looking forward to the day when we can finally get back out in the field and play them for real!

We are doing a virtual Playford Ball for Whitby Folk Week. We were supposed to be up at Whitby next week playing concerts, sessions and also the Playford Ball. If you'd like to come along to that in Zoom, pop over to their FaceBook page for details!

In the meantime - here is the dance list for Sunday 16th August.

• Newcastle
• Fandango
• Hare's Maggot
• Grimstock
• Gathering Peascods
• PDF of the dots
• Blog Entry for Session 13

Enjoy!

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Vicki

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Piparens Polska

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A good few years ago I put together a tune book and I thought I would teach a tune from there. So instead of the dots being on the website this time I'm encouraging people to buy the book! It's very reasonably priced and I am filming and putting up tunes by request from the book!

So far I have done Skomakaren and Linnéavalsen. This third tune has been requested and it's Piparens Polska - the Pipers Polska

 I've uploaded up a few versions of the tune:

• The full lesson
• A version with me playing both
• A version with me just playing the melody
• A version with me just playing the harmony

To buy the book and get the dots - CLICK HERE!

So you can play along with which ever version you like! I have already filmed a second tune from the book and if you enjoy this - then you can put in a request for more videos!

Enjoy!

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Vicki

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The Full Lesson:

The Duet Version: 

The Harmony Version - you get to play the Melody  

The Melody Verison - you get to play the Harmony

The Lockdown Halsway Bar Nyckelharpa Session 12 - British Tunes

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This week it's another week of British tunes and we also get a sneaky peek into the freshly renovated Marden Room. For a lot of people that have been to Halsway this room is totally unrecognisable and we are very excited to be able to deliver this session from there and even more excited when we get to go back and actually run a workshop in it!!!

Back to the session though, these are some of my favourite tunes. So enjoy!

• Speed the Plough
• Hector the Hero
• The Inverness Gathering
• May Your Day Be Filled with Music
• The Quantox March (also Quantox Reel)
• Rocking the Baby
• PDF of the music
• Blog Entry for session 12

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Vicki

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