Hello! This weekend I'm on our little "school trip" to the Eric Sahlström Institute. Exciting times!! I'll report back next week!
We had a great Zoom dance on Sunday and the video edited and up! On the nyckelharpa we have Sommarvals written by Ale Möller, it's in the Halsway Manor top 40. For the Scottish Smallpipes I've got the SSP Tutor Chapter 2 part 3 onto the site. This Sunday we have Fångset in Catch Club. There are quite a few different versions of Fångset on that page! On the flute we have Polska efter Byss-Calle No. 45
It's snowy out here in Sweden! Photos next week! :)) Vicki
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Hello! It's an exciting week coming up! I'm heading off to Sweden on Monday and will be going on up to Tobo and the Eric Sahstöm Institute for a course! Most of the students of course want to learn with Emilia Amper. But I'm looking forward to teaching some Swedish students some of my favourite British tunes. I'm going to create a video blog of the experience, so watch this space!
On the nyckelharpa this week we have a waltz by Jonny - Angarrick. We also have Catch Club! This week at 10am on Sunday we have A Waltz Catch by Jonny Dyer. Then later in the evening we have our Symmetry Dance. You can come along live and then play-along later if you want! The dots are already up on the website. On the Scottish Smallpipes we have SSP Tutor Chapter 2 part 2 from the tutor book. Playford in #shorts is rapidly coming to a close! After today we have only two left to go. I will at some point go onto the second edition - but not for a little while! This week was tunes 96-102.
It's now been officially announced that the Global Mosaic tune for World Nyckelharpa Day 2024 is going to be Brudmarsch efter Jonas Johansson. The arrangement has been done and is now out and the video is below. The melody is nice and simple so that even the most inexperienced of player should manage it. But the oktavharpa part is a little more challenging. It's going to sound epic when everything is put together!
More next week - although I will be on the road, so it might be a small update! Enjoy :)) Vicki
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Hello! Happy New Year! I've been using the same way of titling these weekly updates for a while now and I've realised I need the year in the title as well so I can tell which year it's from when I search for them. So that's now added!
So what's new? Before our concert last St Barnabas I filmed me baking a banana cake for the concert. So here it is released! Recipe and all! I'm releasing both the lesson and the short for Kettle Drum! I love this tune and I've taught it quite a bit this autumn! I nearby officially inaugurate Catch Club! Each Sunday at 10am I am going to release a new catch into the wild. (I won't manage to make Catch Club every week, because they are actually quite time consuming to make! - but I'll do as many as I can in batches) This week we are starting off with Jonny's Catch No. 1. It's a lovely little catch. On the Scottish Smallpipes we have The Curlew. On the flute we have Polska efter Byss-Calle No. 41
Wonder what a catch is I've put a video below explaining the rules of Catch Club! Enjoy :)) Vicki
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Hello! It's week 52 and the last update for this year! I hope you've all had a great Christmas. We had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas by playing for Dance last Halsway Manor. Now we're back home and trying to take some deep breaths before everything starts again in January. My trip to the Eric Sahlström Institute will soon be upon us!!
On the 1st January 2023 I decided I was going to publish a YouTube short everyday in 2023. I am now reaching the end of that run. The question is should I continue into 2024? Let me know! I finished the Christmas Shorts on the 26th and have returned to the Playford in #shorts. They will now run until the final 108th tune in the 1651 edition. Then I have some more Symmetry shorts to post up... but what should I do after that? I've posted a poll over on my Youtube Channel to find out what people think. Do let me know!
I've been away over Christmas so in completely the opposite to last week - I don't have much to update on! But we do have....
I was clearing out some old hard drives and in checking some source files against the website I found that I'd never put the video for Seth's Jolly Contra on the lesson page! So go check that out - it's really jolly!! We pair that with Hawaiian Contra. They're so jolly bright so it seems a good time to suggest having a go at those in these jolly, but dark times (if you're my side of the hemisphere anyway!) We've also got Keppell's Delight. A delightful little jig.
We have Min Lilla Lisa on säckpipa this week. We also have a serious workout in the Scottish Smallpipe course called New Years Exercise.
I hope you all have a great New Year and see you next year! I've been busy with Catch Club this week, I hope to start that next Sunday, but more about that next week if I manage to get it all finished! :)) Vicki
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Hello! We had our Christmas Zoom concert last night and it was a lot of fun! We filmed it and it's available on demand now, the concert was entry by donation and people can still donate to get access to the Watch Again.
I did a lot of filming over the last couple of weeks and a lot of it was Christmas based - so everything left has been put into this update as next week no-body will be wanting to play Christmas Carols! I also did a few updates. I'd like to spend more time putting up some Byss-Calle tunes, so I shall try to do that in the new year!
We're now on our way to Halsway Manor where we will be spending Christmas playing for dancing and celebrating! I hope that you are all well and preparations are going well for the holidays! More next week! Happy Christmas :)) Vicki
Most importantly - we have our Zoom concert before my next update goes out. So Thursday 21st December, 7pm Zoom Jonny and I are doing our traditional concert. Entry is by donation and there is a watch again facility, so you can catch up as soon as we get the video edited. (Which has to be fast as we're off to Halsway the following morning and the internet is too slow to upload from there!)
More next week! :)) Vicki
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Hello! We're already a quarter of the way through December and I've been busy - so it's a long update! We had the Zoom Dance on Tuesday, so pop on over and have a listen/play-along.
So I figured it was time for some Christmas action on the website! So what is new this week?
On the Scottish smallpipes I've decided to start to transfer the tutor over from my CDrom and onto the website. This is going to take some time to transfer over and is going to be a little different to some of the lessons as the original tutor was audio only and any video that there was are very low resolution. It's going to be a big job. We also have a Christmas tune for the smallpipes this week Holly and the Ivy.
Hello! It's December!! How did that happen? I really wanted to do a new advent calendar this year - but as with last year it's not been possible to get time to it! So I'll share my original one instead!
As I send this it's the 1st December, today we have The Holly and the Ivy. If you want to play along in real time everyday - then head on over to the advent calendar page!
Hello! We had our Symmetry Zoom Dance on Tuesday and it was 100% nyckelharpa. It's now ready and edited, so pop on over to watch and/or play-along! The Playford in Shorts continue and we've reached 67 tunes now!
This weeks flute tune is Fenterlarik. I've been filming on the flute, so the next lessons are all going to be Swedish flute tunes playable on a 6 hole flute. Watch this space as these come on in!
On the nyckelharpa we have Polska ur Göran Peter Göranssons Notbok, one of the tunes that I taught at Halsway this year - I love this tune! We also have the lesson for the Broken Drone, which is one of Jonny's Waltzes. We played it back in July for Symmetry.
This week I have been recording all the Catches that we've done in Catch Club, so after Christmas I hope to get the Catch Club on the website up and running with videos that you can play along with. I'll be shuffling the catches that are already on this site into a new Course - which of course I'll be calling Catch Club. 😀 More next week! :)) Vicki
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Hello! I've had some time for filming and the Playford in #shorts is now all ready and scheduled. It'll run until sometime in the New Year, with a couple of one day breaks for some Christmas!
I've done some tidying up in the index list of the flute course and scheduled some new lessons. More about those as they get published!
On the Scottish Smallpipes this week we have Calliope House.
Next Tuesday (21st) we have another Zoom dance. The music is all ready and uploaded. We have also just put our Christmas Zoom gig into the diary. Thursday 21st December - it's still a month away, but you can never be too organised!
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