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Hello!
Halsway was amazing! It was also a lot of preparation, so last week and this week's updates have again been merged into one. But we're home again tonight. (I'm on the M4 as I write this update!)
So what have I been up to in the last two weeks? The Whitby Playford Ball Playalong page is now up and ready for you to play along with. We had Symmetry Dance this week, but I've not had time to edit the video yet. So hopefully that will be ready to play along with by next update!
We had the most amazing concert at Halsway Manor. It was filmed and is being made available to the people who were there to watch again. But if you're one of my subscribers I'm giving you access too. It was incredible to play with such amazing players!
I'm going to feature some lessons this week.
On the nyckelharpa a tune that is really popular is Juringius. That isn't the real name, but it's what everyone calls it! I'd like to also feature a tune by English nyckelharpa player Ed Pritchard, this always gets played at Halsway and indeed was this weekend by Ed himself. So here is The Noodle Slicer!
In flute news - my lovely TJ wooden flute had to go in for some new flute teething problems and as a result can't be played all evening at the Jane Austen Festival as we are now reset to "playing in" mode. But I will do my 15 minutes of playing in tonight so it will feature in the play-along video. This sort of thing can happen with a new wooden flute - but it has made me appreciate how awesome it is compared to my old flute! So I am going to feature Näcken's Midsommar Polska which is on my simple system 8-key flute. As we're playing for the Jane Austen Ball I'm going to feature Chelmsford Assembly. Although Bath Assembly would have been better if I'd done that one!
In Scottish Smallpipe news - I'm going to feature Hambo Polska efter Theodor Freyland in honour of being at Halsway playing lots of Swedish tunes and Incognito Ian as a jolly little jig!
More next week where I'll have the Symmetry video from the 10th finished and will have filmed the tunes I taught at Halsway.
Have a good week
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Vicki
