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Week 16 – Filming, editing, preparing!

Hello!I finally got all the videos from Lewes and Halsway edited, so the resources pages are now updated and the lessons will trickle through into these updates as the weeks pass. We had a great weekend playing for dance up … Continue reading

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Week 15 – lots of little things added!

Hello!It’s been a week of frantic filming to try to get everything that I taught at Halsway filmed, edited and uploaded. We also had some request tunes to record for callers and the Casterton Dance weekend to prepare for! So … Continue reading

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Week 13 and 14 – Back From Halsway

Hello!I’m now back from an excellent week at Halsway Manor. Many tunes were played and many dances had. We also found some time to go walking up in the hills. I took a camera and over the course of two … Continue reading

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Week 12 – Busy, Busy, Busy!

Hello!I’ve had a recount of all the lessons and as I type this we have 777 different tunes on this site! I wonder what a reasonable goal is to reach by the end of 2025? I’m going to aim for 816 … Continue reading

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Week 11 – One Week To Halsway!

Hello!A week of editing! And just when I thought everything was edited, I did some more filming. I’m doing a workshop of Swedish tunes for any instrument and a Purcell tunes workshop in a weeks time and then it’s the … Continue reading

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Week 10 – Lots of Change Tune Challenges

Hello!It’s been a mixed week this week. Prepping more dance tunes. Editing more videos. Working on the tunes I’m going to teach at Lewes in a couple of weeks time. This has meant a lot of very nerdy work on … Continue reading

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Week 9: Vikings!

Hello!Since last week we’ve been up to York for the Jorvik Viking Festival, led some tunes for the American Nyckelharpa Association, had a Symmetry dance and a folk club gig! But I have managed to add a good spread of … Continue reading

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Week 8 – Call for WND advert!

Hello!Another week passes and time seems to pass faster and faster! I am writing this update from the A1 as we drive north to see the finale of the Jorvik Viking festival where Jonny wrote the sound track again. I … Continue reading

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Week 7 – Over flowing mailbox!

Hello!I’ve been back from Sweden for a week now and I spent it on the road! We had a folk club, I recorded for a secret project, then spent two days at Warwick Castle and then tried to catch up! … Continue reading

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Weeks 5 and 6 – from Sweden

Hello!I’m running behind again, so I’m blending last week and this week into one update. I am now over in Sweden ready for the course at the Eric Sahlström Institute. It’s been snowing lightly. everywhere looks lovely and I managed … Continue reading

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