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Week 38: More Halsway!

Hello!
Wow what a weekend! It was amazing to be teaching at Halsway Manor again to so many wonderful nyckelharpa players. As you can imagine it's been a busy old time here with a lot of preparations and then after event catching up. I've filmed the tunes that I taught and and in the middle of editing and uploading them to YouTube. These are all completely new tunes to the site. 🙂
This week we have three tunes that I taught. The others will come next week.

Slängpolska ur Hugo Gustaf Svenssons Sammling
Pollonesse ur Andreas Dahlgrens Notbok
Schottis efter Sixten i Verpeshultaberg

These three by next week:
Christina Nilsons Vals
Polska ur Carl Johan Johanssons Notbok
Polska ur Hugo Hägerströms Notbok

No flute or pipe tunes this week - it's been full on with Halsway! For a fuller report on Halsway go and visit the blog entry on the main website -> Click Here!

As soon as I'm done with this blog entry it's straight over to preparing for the nyckelharpa teaching weekend at Burg Fürsteneck in less than two weeks time. Lots to do!!
:))
Vicki

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Week 37: Halsway Week!

Hello!
It's Halsway week! That means that I've been putting together some tunes to be teaching at the weekend. It does mean that I've been very busy learning them and making lots of preparations.  But rest assured there will be videos of all the tunes I'm teaching this weekend over the next couple of weeks! So what is new this week?

Långdans från Sollerön (Tune Friday)
Dancing Out (Vicki's Dance Tune)
Mount Hills (Tune Friday)
Go Tell Aunt Rody (for Children - but adults might find it helpful too)
The Seven Stars  - is totally new to the site.

We also have:
Björnlåten on the double bass.
Bonden i Paradis on the flute.
Menuetto efter Sven Donat on the Scottish Smallpipes

That's it for this week - I'll report back from the Harpas at Halsway weekend next week hopefully with lots of good video footage for you!
:))
Vicki

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Week 36: The Week Before Halsway

Hello!
It's all systems go here now in the count down to the mega weekend at Halsway Manor. There is so much preparation to do and I need to decide what I am going to teach. I plan on filming the next session at Halsway - just like the last time we were there. So I'll make sure I decide this week which tunes are going to be in the session so I can get them out to people to brush up on! In the meantime - what's new this week? It's all Swedish tunes this week to offset all the Playford from last week!

Hia Hia Svärmor
Polls ur Sven Lorenn Brunn’s Notbok
Polska efter Johan Skedin från Tärnsjö
Hans Grinds Jäspodspolska

Røros Pols - (totally new to the site)

The Folkie Flute tune of the week is also Polska efter Johan Skedin Frances Tärnsjö. (This is a different lesson to the one above!). The tune of the week for the Scottish Smallpipes is Hamburska efter Pehr Ericsson (one of my favourite tunes of all time!)

Enjoy
:))
Vicki