Category Archives: Nyckelharpa

Hello!I finally finished the Global Byss-Calle tune for World Nyckelharpa Day. It was quite an epic editing session! 156 nyckelharpa players made the final video from 20 countries and it is amazing! I’m not sure we’ll be able to top … Continue reading →

Hello!What a day World Nyckelharpa Day was last week! An incredible 12 hours in Zoom culminating in our little concert. Quite a lot of the Zoom was streamed into YouTube – so you can catch up on it and the … Continue reading →

Hello!It’s World Nyckelharpa Day Week! I’ve spent the week working on videos, schedules and generally getting ready for Sunday! As always I have a prepared a feast of videos that get scattered throughout the day in the playlist. We’ve had … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →