My how the time flies!
Happily I am once again running both Absolute Beginners and Improvers workshops every afternoon from Monday 4th August to Friday 8th inc. at Sidmouth Folk Week. Both series will be progressive, so very advisable to start at the beginning.
We are at a new venue this year, The Kingswood Room at the Devoran and Kingswood Hotel, on the sea front, or Esplanade if you prefer. Nice.
There are two Absolute Beginners workshops, just so I can fit them all in:
Workshop I: 16:15 - 17:00
Workshop II: 17:15 - 18:00
No need to be able to read music, but you will need access to a D/G Melodeon though, thanks to Spinningpath Arts CIC, I shall have a banks of about 12 melodeons available for those who would like to try out the melodeon, but do not have access. They shall be allocated by means of a lottery the forms for which will be available at the Box Office on The Ham.
This is an ideal opportunity to enter the giddy world of melodeon, so if you have noticed anyone looking on with misty eyed admiration when you play (as opposed to glassy eyed torpor) then point them in this direction!
The Improvers workshops, where we look at different techniques and sneaky stuff for showing off, are at 14:45 - 16:00.
Again music reading is not necessary. You will need a D/G melodeon and be able to play a number of tunes with simple bass accompaniment.
That's it, go tell Aunt Rhody and while you're at it, the rest of the world.
Onwards and Uppards!
Ed