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Week 43: What's new this week?

Hello!
What's new? The camera was busy last week with the session and lots of new lessons on double bass, flute and Scottish smallpipes. Right now my focus is on creating something really special for Christmas. You'll have to wait and find out closer to the time!

Caucasia Contra
Stena's Hornpipe
Presbyterian Hornpipe

Halsway Parade - Flute Duet
The Lights of Yew, Ringdans, Au Claire de la Lune, The Cuckoo are all new in Double Bass.
Polska från Gladhammar has been added to the Scottish Smallpipe course.

Enjoy
:))
Vicki

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Week 42: Session Filming Week!

Hello!
After an incredibly busy last 6 weeks we plan on filming a few sessions this week. I enjoyed the tunes so much at Fürsteneck that our plan is to make two sessions with these tunes. The next session after that will be the tunes I taught at Halsway and then finally my plan is for a week of jigs! This jig session has been delayed a little as it was planned in for September. Then we're into the Christmas season, so expect Christmas for a few weeks after that! So what is going to be in the session?

Doodle Oak Cloggers into Childegrove
The Female Sayler into Dr Who Pirate jig
Hornpipe Hollandica
Lightening the Load (32 bar version)
Red House
PDF of the tunes

What else is new to the site this week?
Konvulsionslåt (on the moraharpa)
Olle's Födelsedags Låt
Shepherds Hey (a version aimed at Children)
Schottis efter Axel Sjölander (Swedish tune on the SSPs!)

A new subscriber extra video has been put up. To find out anything about this video you need to be a subscriber and go visit the subscriber extra section of the website!

I'm looking forward to the next session coming this Sunday! See you there!
:))
Vicki

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Week 38: More Halsway!

Hello!
Wow what a weekend! It was amazing to be teaching at Halsway Manor again to so many wonderful nyckelharpa players. As you can imagine it's been a busy old time here with a lot of preparations and then after event catching up. I've filmed the tunes that I taught and and in the middle of editing and uploading them to YouTube. These are all completely new tunes to the site. 🙂
This week we have three tunes that I taught. The others will come next week.

Slängpolska ur Hugo Gustaf Svenssons Sammling
Pollonesse ur Andreas Dahlgrens Notbok
Schottis efter Sixten i Verpeshultaberg

These three by next week:
Christina Nilsons Vals
Polska ur Carl Johan Johanssons Notbok
Polska ur Hugo Hägerströms Notbok

No flute or pipe tunes this week - it's been full on with Halsway! For a fuller report on Halsway go and visit the blog entry on the main website -> Click Here!

As soon as I'm done with this blog entry it's straight over to preparing for the nyckelharpa teaching weekend at Burg Fürsteneck in less than two weeks time. Lots to do!!
:))
Vicki

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Week 37: Halsway Week!

Hello!
It's Halsway week! That means that I've been putting together some tunes to be teaching at the weekend. It does mean that I've been very busy learning them and making lots of preparations.  But rest assured there will be videos of all the tunes I'm teaching this weekend over the next couple of weeks! So what is new this week?

Långdans från Sollerön (Tune Friday)
Dancing Out (Vicki's Dance Tune)
Mount Hills (Tune Friday)
Go Tell Aunt Rody (for Children - but adults might find it helpful too)
The Seven Stars  - is totally new to the site.

We also have:
Björnlåten on the double bass.
Bonden i Paradis on the flute.
Menuetto efter Sven Donat on the Scottish Smallpipes

That's it for this week - I'll report back from the Harpas at Halsway weekend next week hopefully with lots of good video footage for you!
:))
Vicki

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Week 36: The Week Before Halsway

Hello!
It's all systems go here now in the count down to the mega weekend at Halsway Manor. There is so much preparation to do and I need to decide what I am going to teach. I plan on filming the next session at Halsway - just like the last time we were there. So I'll make sure I decide this week which tunes are going to be in the session so I can get them out to people to brush up on! In the meantime - what's new this week? It's all Swedish tunes this week to offset all the Playford from last week!

Hia Hia Svärmor
Polls ur Sven Lorenn Brunn’s Notbok
Polska efter Johan Skedin från Tärnsjö
Hans Grinds Jäspodspolska

Røros Pols - (totally new to the site)

The Folkie Flute tune of the week is also Polska efter Johan Skedin Frances Tärnsjö. (This is a different lesson to the one above!). The tune of the week for the Scottish Smallpipes is Hamburska efter Pehr Ericsson (one of my favourite tunes of all time!)

Enjoy
:))
Vicki

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Week 35: Session Week!

Hello!
The next session is ready to go. It will go out this coming Sunday at 2pm as usual and then stay up. So this week is all dedicated to getting the new tunes up! Half Hannekin has been moved from the old site and I filmed the other five on Monday night and they're all now up and ready for you!

So What is new this week
Half Hannekin
Sellengers Round
Millison's Jig
Epping Forest
Chestnut or Dove's Figary
The Indian Queen
PDF of the Dots

Folkie Flute tune of the week is Levi Jackson Rag from our Zoom ceilidh at Whitby.
I've done a few tunes as backup resources for pipes this week, so we have: Tigers Eye, Vintage Puget, Farewell to the Astra and GPRS Blues.

So hope to see you on Sunday!
:))
Vicki