Week 52: Happy New Year

Posted on 28 December 2021 by Vicki
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Week 52: Happy New Year

Hello!
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the Nyckelharpa Christmas advent calendar! That was mammoth to put together! We've had a quiet few days over Christmas - but spent most of it trying to catch up on sleep and giving the house a bit of a tidy up. It's been a long 22 months since we went digital at the start of the pandemic. I've now been moving materials over from my old Blogger site for nearly a year and at some point the job will be finished! But not yet!

Is anything new this week? I've moved one more tune as it's quite festive - but I hope you're still playing the tunes from the Advent Calendar!
Rum in the Pudding

I've decided it's time to release some music onto Spotify, my plan is to release a new track into the digisphere every week. So I am starting with Jonny's Suite that we performed at Halsway and Fürsteneck. The first movement was released at midnight on the 29th December and the second movement will arrive on the 5th January! If you don't have spotify it's also available on YouTube and all other good streaming services.

Happy New Year!
See you soon.
:))
Vicki

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Week 51: Happy Christmas

Posted on 24 December 2021 by Vicki
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Week 51: Happy Christmas

Hello!
It's the final week for the advent calendar. It's been so much fun putting this together. I've enjoyed sharing these every day, so maybe I'll do another one next year too! I'll have to hunt around to find some cool Christmas tunes.

Silent Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Past Three O'Clock
In Dulci Jubilo
Frosty the Snowman
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
We Wish You a Merry Christmas

I hope you are all well and safe out there and have a lovely Covid free Christmas
:))
Vicki

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Week 50: More Advent Calendar!

Posted on 13 December 2021 by Vicki
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Week 50: More Advent Calendar!

Hello!
It's yet more advent calendar! Another seven Christmassy carols this week. There's another week to go, so enjoy the duets!

Jul Jul, Strålande Jul
Good King Wenceslas
Sankta Lucia
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Nu Har Vi Ljus
I Saw Three Ships
Mary Free

We had a plan that we were going to go to Sweden and see family and do a YouTube concert. However with the state of Covid right now we've decided it's not safe to go. So instead we are going to do a real live Zoom concert on Wednesday 22nd December at 7pm. Entry is by donation, details are on our duo website. Hope to see you there!
:))
Vicki

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Week 49: A full week of Advent Calendar

Posted on 8 December 2021 by Vicki
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Hello!
It's full on with the advent calendar now, I hope you're all enjoying it! We've also got some online Zoom gigs coming up! If you fancy a concert we're at Deal Folk Club in Zoom on Friday night. We're playing for Symmetry Dance on Sunday evening. (Dots will be available for play-along). Our YouTube Christmas special might become a Zoom Christmas Special - we're still trying to decide if we can get to Sweden safely for Christmas - it hangs in the balance!

So what is in the calendar this week?

Nu Tändas Tusen Juleljus
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Nu Är Det Jul Igen
Down in Yon Forest
Gläns Över Sjö och Strand
The Sussex Carol
Jingle Bells

Don't forget there are different versions of the dots available, so if you're a flautist on this site, there is music for you!
Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

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Week 48: Happy Advent!

Posted on 3 December 2021 by Vicki
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Week 48: Happy Advent!

Hello!
The advent calendar is here and in full swing! As I write this update it's 3rd December and we've had three days: Plenty more to come! I've embedded a playlist of the duets below. To get the dots and all the videos collated into one place you need to be a subscriber or buy access for the advent calendar!

The Holly and The Ivy
När Juldagsmorgon Glimmar
Deck the Halls

Enjoy!
:))
Vicki

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Week 47: The week before the advent calendar!

Posted on 22 November 2021 by Vicki
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Week 47: The week before the advent calendar!

Hello!
It's the week before the advent calendar starts and we're busy cramming words for the Christmas work we have coming up. We're doing three dances in Symmetry, the dots as always will be available here.

So what else is new on the site this week? For the nyckelharpa this week we have:
Fnyka Polskan
Lego Bricks
Marsch efter Svankvist

In the Scottish Smallpipe course we have Lullaby for the Sleepy on SSP.
This feels like a short update this week - but just wait until the 1st December! It's epic!
:))
Vicki

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Week 46: The NH Duet Advent Calendar!!

Posted on 15 November 2021 by Vicki
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Week 46: The NH Duet Advent Calendar!!

Hello!
It's finally time to release my Christmas project! It's taken several weeks of filming, editing and website editing! So here it is! During the month of December I will be releasing a new Christmassy duet from the 1st to the 24th. I'm calling this my Nyckelharpa Advent Calendar. You can have a look at the page already - but nothing will turn up until the 1st December!

Subscribers you'll be able to go to each lesson page, download the music and see all the videos on one page. Each duet has a tune lesson, the duet in full and a minus-1 version for you to play along with. It was an epic project to put together with 80 videos made and more involved in the whole advent calendar!

So what else is new on the site this week?
I've added Norrahammarsvägen and The Drunken Piper. One into our dance tunes course and one into tune Friday.
We have a new flute duet up - The Piper's Wedding March. There are play-along videos for you in this lesson.
For the Scottish smallpipes we have Headphones and Admins, it's mostly about practising triplets!

Enjoy and stay safe!
:))
Vicki

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Week 45: Session Week!

Posted on 9 November 2021 by Vicki
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Week 45: Session Week!

Hello!
We've had a busy week on the road, but we had the camera and Studio 2 set up for a Zoom dance, so we kept the camera rolling and completed the Fürsteneck session. It goes out this Sunday at 2pm (14th November). We both hope that you enjoy it!

Goddesses
Row Well Ye Mariners
Juice of the Barley (Stingo)
Millison's Jig
Nonesuch
Tongue in Cheek
Poppy's Present
PDF of the tunes

What else is new?
As it's the 11th November this week I have added When the Battle's O'er. Enjoy!
We also have Polska efter Oppigårds Lars and Lästringre Gånglåt on the Scottish Smallpipes

See you next week - where I will be announcing my Christmas project! (Yes Christmas is that close!!)
:))
Vicki

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Session 12 – The Fürsteneck Session Part 2

Posted on 9 November 2021 by Vicki
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Session 12 - The Fürsteneck Session Part 2

Hello!
It's session time! This week it's the Fürsteneck Session part 2, in other words all the other tunes I taught! There is a lot of Playford in this session because I was teaching dance tunes and I wanted them to be as groovy as possible. The problem is that there are a lot fo groovy dance tunes in Playford 1651! I hope that you enjoy playing along!

Goddesses
Row Well Ye Mariners
Juice of the Barley (Stingo)
Millison's Jig
Nonesuch
Tongue in Cheek
Poppy's Present
PDF of the tunes

As usual the session goes at 2pm on Sunday 14th November and stays up forever. See you then!
:))
Vicki & Jonny

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Week 44: Prepping for a big month…

Posted on 1 November 2021 by Vicki
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Week 44: Prepping for a big month…

Hello!
It's been a really, really busy week with the camera this week. But it's all going to be scheduled into December, which means I don't have much to show the world this week - but December is going to be massive! It's also put a little delay on the next session. So there is a large chance it will go out next week rather than this week as we have 5 gigs over the weekend and I've been called for another session on the thing I'm not allowed to talk about. So for this week I thought I'd complete another of the Halsway sessions from last year. So we have Session 10 and it seems to be a lot of Playford! Anyone would think that we play a lot for dances! (We do!)
Enjoy this session and hopefully next week we'll be putting out the second part to the Fürsteneck session!
😀
Vicki

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