Tenterden Zoom Dance

Hello!
We're playing for a dance! It's a familiar phrase now - it's supposed to be the Tenterden Folk Festival at the weekend and of course it's been cancelled due to Covid-19. So we offered to do a Zoom ceilidh. tune it's Zoom that means you don't have to dance - you can play along. So here is a sneak preview of the dance list and PDF so that you can download it, print it and join in with us! It doesn't include what the actual dances are though, they can be a surprise - although some of the dances have eponymous tunes. Below is the list to the links of the teaching videos. I haven't taught them all - so I should get round to doing those!

CLICK HERE for the PDF

1. Alunelul
2. Anastasia
3. Double Shot Coffee / Diversion Ahead / Don't Drive Tired
4. Hyde and Seek / Japonica Jig
5. Half Hannikin
6. Horses Branle
7. Lightening the Load / St Albans New
8. Hornpipe Hollandica 1 / Hornpipe Hollandica 2 / Stena's Hornpipe
9. Andy Clarkes / A Trip to Habertonford
10. Ankapoo / Tongue in Cheek
11. Drunken Piper / Italian Pants / Dot Dot Dot
12. Swedish Masquerade
13. Winster Gallop / Doodle Oak Cloggers /  Hedingham Green

If you want to come to the Zoom dance you'll need to register and I will send you the details. It's free (donations welcome) -> CLICK HERE to REGISTER.

:))

Vicki

Hambo Polska efter Erik Hartvig

Hello!
Another lovely little polska today! Ready for the session on Friday 18th.
Enjoy!

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Vicki

Halsway Virtual Zoom Session - Friday 18th September

Hello!

On Friday 18th September we're having an online Zoom session to try to make up a little for not being at Halsway Manor itself. (This year the weekend was a weekend later). It's free to come into the session, but you'll need to register yourself and then I can send you the Zoom meeting details!

The tunes are being led by some stalwart Halsway people and the tunes will be pulled form this pdf.

CLICK HERE!

Quite a few of these tunes I've taught on this blog, so here's the complete list!

• Flickorna Svensson
• Polska efter Båtsman Däck
• The Noodle Slicer
• Miranda's Mazurka
• The Italian Rant into The Scots Bransle
• Hälleforsnäspolskan
• Polska efter Spel-Erik
• Trollpolska efter Hans Bortas
• Emma
• Härjedalschottis
• Vevlire-ettan
• Hambo efter Erik Hartvig
• Spikensvals
• Storpolskan efter Båtsman Däck
• Matti Karis Brudpolska
• Bröllopsgåvan
• Schottis från Lima
• Svängrumpa
• A Trip to Paris
• Olle's Polska
• Cuckolds All in a Row

The full details of the whole two days are here.

Register by signing up HERE!
See you there.
:))
Vicki

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!

:))

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!

Hello!
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

Hello!

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!

:)

Vicki

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The Global Halsway Parade

Hello!
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)