Happy Christmas everyone! - God Jul allihoppa! We complete our Christmas work on Sunday 22nd December. On Monday 23rd I grabbed the camera and spent the day filming. Normally I would then spread out the videos that I'd made - but they are all Christmas ones and a bit time dependent! So here is the entire haul that I videoed, edited, uploaded and then added to the site! It's Symmetry on Sunday - so hope to see you there! Video will go up as soon as it's edited!
Hello! It's solstice week and we've not touched ground since my last update, so this week it's a little thin on the ground. We had our Zoom concert on Monday and it was a lot fun! Just like we do for the Symmetry Dances it was filmed and is now available for watch again. The concert entry was by donation. (Which could be as small as £1.) Click here to get to the donate page. Once you have the link it stays up so you can watch it over Christmas or New Year or whenever you like!
I urgently needed to do a tuning lesson for tuning the miniharpa, the video needs re-doing as I had to film it in the undercroft at Warwick Castle. Because I did it in portrait and it was around a minute YouTube put it up as a short. I'll be replacing that when I get home! But the lesson is up - Tuning the Miniharpa
This is the last update before Christmas - so I hope you have a relaxing break that gives you plenty of time to play whatever your instrument is!! More next week! :)) Vicki
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Hello! It's Lucia today! To get a real feel of Lucia take a little trip over to SVT (Sweden's national TV channel and watch their Lucia concert). At around 20 minutes in you'll get to see Josefina Paulson playing nyckelharpa! We had our Symmetry dance on Tuesday and the video is now edited and up for you to watch or play-along with. Our next Symmetry dance is on Sunday 29th January. The music is nearly ready!
We have our zoom concert on Monday. Entry is by donation and it can be as small as £1. Or just get in touch and say you'd like to come along and we'll drop you the link! Doors open at 6:45pm UK time and the concert starts at 7pm. (That's 8pm Central European time and 2pm Eastern). We've already set the room out as we're on the road until the last minute! Hope to see you there! :)) Vicki
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Hello! We are now well into our Christmas work, so I decided it was time for the Christmas Advent Calendar again. So I've decided to spruce up the file a little bit and add articulations and bowings for the main advent calendar. I'll try to get through all the tunes by Christmas - so here are the updated tunes for this week! There are plenty of versions of these tunes for several instruments!
We have a Symmetry Dance on Tuesday, come along and listen/play/dance. Don't forget to book for our Zoom concert on Monday 16th December too! Jonny has just released one of his soundtracks onto BandCamp. It's the sound track for the show A Night of Legends that was performed by Time Will Tell back in September. Take a listen!
More Christmas next week! :)) Vicki
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Hello! We had a really lovely trip to Sweden, full of snow and family times! It's now full on preparations for Christmas we have a lot of Victorian and Medieval work coming up which is going to be lots of fun. Lots of miles and many, many renditions of Ding Dong Merrily on High (which features in both our sets be it Victorian or Medieval! So what is new this week?
We were asked for a recording of Church in the Highlands for dancing too, so I've added this in the flute course complete with articulations and grace notes. I have now added Byss-Calles Liile efter Torbjörn Näsbom. It's not been announced yet, but this is going to be the Global Tune for World Nyckelharpa Day next year! The Broken Drone on the nyckelharpa has had an update and the Symmetry Dance video from the 27th November is up and ready to go. We also have a tune written by Jonny for the Scottish smallpipes this week - On the Mash.
That's it for this week as I'm really late in sending this update out! Hopefully I will be on time this week! Don't forget to sign up for our Christmas Zoom gig on Monday 16th December! Enjoy :)) Vicki
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Hello! This week I had a million and one things that were absolutely urgent. So of course I started to try to tidy up the site a little bit. You'll notice a few tiny changes here and there. Mostly these are surrounding dance and our tunes and putting some links on the front page to get to other areas of the site more efficiently.
I've created a Dance tier in our Patreon and given Dance a 'front page' to show where all the relevant things are for dancers/dance tune players. Of course - all members of this site have access to everything, so it matters not if you are a an instrumental player or dancer, you can see everything. Talking of dance - we had a Symmetry Dance on Sunday and the video is ready and up for playing along/watch again.
The section of the website for the all our tunes section now has a pdf of all the tunes that we've ever recorded on our albums. It's 94 pages and 147 tunes long. This part of the site will be under development for a long time as we have written far more music than that!
So what did I add this week? I spotted a request for a dance tune in Facebook - so we recorded and filmed Errol on the Greenon the flute. I added Horses Bransle for moraharpa and added it to the original version that I had put the shorts version on and included the music. For nyckelharpa I added the jig Controtto from our album Sleep Deprivation and also Mjölnaren från Ulriksberg by Gene Carlsson has had an update with articulations added to the music.
I ran out of time to add pipes this week - so that will be the first instrument I add for next week! I'm now in Sweden for the weekend on a family visit. A very cold snowy Stockholm - extremely beautiful! So I am typing this not from the usual A14 or M6 - but the Swedish E20. Definitely makes a lovely change! Christmas starts next week and we have started advertising our Christmas Zoom Concert on Monday 16th December. Box office is open! We have our next Symmetry Dance on Tuesday, music is already up - hope to see some of you there! Enjoy! :)) Vicki
Hello! We had a lovely dance last night and have just finished this weeks Symmetry Dance. I'll be editing that as soon as I have published/sent this update. So what's new this week?
YouTube have added a rather annoying feature that on occasion asks you to 'login to view video'. The videos are all still watchable without a YouTube subscription, you just need to go to YouTube to watch it. I'm working on a way of trying to get round this - but in the meantime I am adding direct YouTube links underneath each video. There are thousands of videos on this site, so it will actually take forever. So just be aware that I am aware of this problem, I'm hoping it will go away and in the meantime I'll be adding the links anytime I go to a new page!
More next week - with a link to the Symmetry dance from tonight. :)) Vicki
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Hello! We've made it home from Whitby and it's time to unpack and have a few days at home! We had a great story-telling gig in Zoom last week. It is available on catch up, so get in touch if you'd like to make a donation and watch on catch up! We bought a white backdrop for that gig and I thought I'd give it a try for filming instead of the green screen. I'm not sure it worked. But it was worth a try!
Hello! It's been a really lovely 10 days at Whitby and I've made an inroad into the new Swedish tune book - but the weather has been so amazing that I've spent a lot of time walking up to Whitby Abbey and back with the drone. You can see the resulting video below.
So what's new this week? We have the Change Tune Challenge tune - Cotton Cottage on nyckelharpa. On the flute we have Skomakaren. It's been done before on this site, but this is in a key perfect for a Boehm system flute. On the Scottish Smallpipes we have Scotty's Last Munro. A really lovely majestic tune!
More next week! :)) Vicki
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Hello! I find myself up at Whitby again for nearly two weeks! We released the new single on Thursday and I took some footage of the debut 'performance' (it's recorded so not really a performance). I've been doing lots of filming for the official video, which I hope to have out this week. If all goes to plan the final footage will be shot tomorrow morning, but you never can tell with these things! If you want to see all the videos I've taken in one place head on over to the If These Stones Could Speak webpage on our duo site. If you're into Spotify here is a direct link. And if you'd like to download it on Bandcamp here is a link for there! Share this track far and wide as we'd like to try to get it to chart!
So what is new this week? We had a Symmetry dance on the 20th before we went up to Whitby and that is now edited and ready for playing along to or just listening. On the nyckelharpa we have Gånglåt efter Teodor Freyland. It's a great little gånglåt that I taught at Halsway this year. I've updated The Revelstoke Wedding to include a duet of me and Jonny playing it. On theMoraharpa we have Day 3 of the Moraharpa-Four-A-Day. On the Fiddleharpa we have the Zen Scale that is D major one octave. (Want to see the nyckelharpa version?) Flute and Scottish smallpipes next week! Enjoy! :)) Vicki
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