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 did quite a lot of filming and it'll take a while to edit it all up! But I promised an update with things other than nyckelharpa this week. So here we go!

On Saturday 22nd February I am one of the workshop leaders for the American Nyckelharpa Association Zoom jam. This takes place at 6pm UK time. I'm going to be leading 5 tunes well known over here. Come along!

We had our Symmetry Dance on Tuesday with the caller Mady Newfield. The video is up for watching again and playing along. Our next dance is on Tuesday 25th with Neil Stuart. We did an extra tune after the dance - The Mischief Makers by Dave Bartley. I chose a key that fits on the simple system 6 hole flute!

I did some recording last week and I used a tune on the tagelharpa called - Polska. So I filmed a quick lesson and dubbed it Grendel's Polska. (That's just my name for it). You can have too many tunes just called polska. 🤣 Because I played it on both Tagelharpa and säckpipa there is also a lesson for it on the säckpipa. I added the articulations and a duo version of Poppy's Present. I added a pipe tune from the Scottish Smallpipe tutor called Fionnula's Little Finger. (No grace notes required)

Finally - World Nyckelharpa Day is coming up soon and we need to make an advert! I have made an advert that I want to edit myself out of. So I'd love it if people could film themselves reading the 'script' and I'll edit it in. Ad libbing is fine too! Film yourself and send it to me!

That's all for this week! More next week!
:))
Vicki