Topic: Whitby workshops and sessions 2016 (Read 13289 times)

pikey · « **Reply #60 on:** August 10, 2016, 10:40:20 AM »

Right chaps, we now have a confirmed plan for Melnet meets/sessions:

Monday 22nd, 11:30 to 12:30 upstairs in the Middle Earth: Melnet meet and greet . A chance to put faces to names and chat about melodeons . Maybe a few slow and steady tunes if we feel like it . Facilitated by me, Bob Ellis and Steve . All ages and capabilities welcome , for existing, lapsed, and potential Melnetters !

Thursday 25th, 1:15 to 2:15 in the Elsinore: Slow and steady melodeon session with a leader.
All capabilities welcomed. Pauses between tunes to socialise. Probable tune list will be published later this week, tunes for DG boxes . Facilitated by me, Bob Ellis, and Steve Dumpleton.

Thursday 25th, 2:15 to 4:30ish in the Elsinore: free flow melodeon heavy session, no leader . Mostly 'English' tunes. All welcome (even banjos )

See you there !

Theo · « **Reply #61 on:** August 10, 2016, 02:11:23 PM »

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pikey · « **Reply #62 on:** August 10, 2016, 02:21:23 PM »

Ta , I don't know how did that

Bob Ellis · « **Reply #63 on:** August 10, 2016, 09:57:24 PM »

I've sent Pikey the list of tunes I have compiled for my Steady Pace sessions, so he has plenty to choose from for the Slow and Steady hour in the melnet session on Thursday. Watch this space for his selection!

I am intrigued by the 'melodeon heavy session' Pikey has planned for later on Thursday afternoon. I had better dust off my Smoke on the Water and see if I can learn a few more heavy metal tunes by then.

IanD · « **Reply #64 on:** August 10, 2016, 10:04:04 PM »

Quote from: george garside on August 09, 2016, 10:28:19 PM

can anybody come up with a simple definition of what constitutes ''English music''. does the tune have to be ''English'' in origin or is it more to do with the style and tempo with which it is played. eg would 'rattling bog' or cock of the north pass as 'English' if played in English rather than Scottish or irish style count as English music? Then there is a Scottish version of Jamie Allen which is just the same as the English version but with a different name etc etc etc . Murky waters or just good fun?

george

Also being brutally honest, what is usually meant by "English session" is really "not an Irish session"... ;-)

pikey · « **Reply #65 on:** August 11, 2016, 08:29:47 AM »

But we might play the occasional anglicised Irish tune too :-)

george garside · « **Reply #66 on:** August 11, 2016, 10:58:21 AM »

about 3 years ago at Whitby in a session lead by a north east ceilidh band a fiddler suddenly blasted off with cock of the north at very fast irish jig speed. we all stopped playing including the band until eventualy and unrepentantly he ground to a halt!

?? do they play cock of the north at shit off a shovel speed in proper Irish sessions!

george

John MacKenzie (Cugiok) · « **Reply #67 on:** August 11, 2016, 11:32:38 AM »

We're naturally fast, up here, in Scotland.

Sir John

Ebor_fiddler · « **Reply #68 on:** August 11, 2016, 02:20:44 PM »

Does a "heavy session" include "Delilah"?

pikey · « **Reply #69 on:** August 11, 2016, 04:25:45 PM »

Probably ....

Mike Carney · « **Reply #70 on:** August 12, 2016, 06:50:39 PM »

Quote from: IanD on August 10, 2016, 10:04:04 PM

Quote from: george garside on August 09, 2016, 10:28:19 PM
can anybody come up with a simple definition of what constitutes ''English music''. does the tune have to be ''English'' in origin or is it more to do with the style and tempo with which it is played. eg would 'rattling bog' or cock of the north pass as 'English' if played in English rather than Scottish or irish style count as English music? Then there is a Scottish version of Jamie Allen which is just the same as the English version but with a different name etc etc etc . Murky waters or just good fun?

george

Also being brutally honest, what is usually meant by "English session" is really "not an Irish session"... ;-)

I'm glad someone else said that. But true enough!
M

John MacKenzie (Cugiok) · « **Reply #71 on:** August 12, 2016, 06:57:12 PM »

It's music played on the melodeon, using both hands, surely?

Sir John (Hiding)

Ebor_fiddler · « **Reply #72 on:** August 12, 2016, 07:17:27 PM »

Hey! I understood that, your knightship!

pikey · « **Reply #73 on:** August 15, 2016, 01:00:37 PM »

The list of tunes for the slow and steady Melnet thursday meet is in the thread about Whitby Folk Week meet

Tufty · « **Reply #74 on:** August 27, 2016, 04:01:37 PM »

Much enjoyed Steve's 1 row workshop, reminded me of all the things I know I ought to be doing on this instrument. Shame about the noise from the bar. Could workshops not be moved upstairs in the Middle Earth?

Steve_freereeder · « **Reply #75 on:** August 27, 2016, 04:24:15 PM »

Quote from: Tufty on August 27, 2016, 04:01:37 PM

Much enjoyed Steve's 1 row workshop, reminded me of all the things I know I ought to be doing on this instrument. Shame about the noise from the bar. Could workshops not be moved upstairs in the Middle Earth?

I'm pleased you enjoyed the one-row workshop. I've had a few good reports from others too

In previous years we have sometimes had the use of the upstairs room, but this year it was a Middle Earth/Whitby FF organisers policy to hold all the Middle Earth sessions and workshops downstairs, in order to leave the upstairs free for the home-grown Whitby strummers/Irish Rover singing crowd.

The one-row workshop was scheduled for the 11:30 - 12:50 time slot, which does mean that there is the potential for noise from the bar, especially if you are seated near the rear of the workshop area. In contrast, my beginners workshops started at 10 am when the pub was much quieter and therefore that time slot is much better in terms of there being much less extraneous noise. As it happened, we could have held the one-row workshop at 10 am, as there was nothing else happening at that time on the Thursday. But it was all fixed in advance and I had no say in the timings/venues, etc.

My suggestion is that you contact the Whitby organisers with any feedback, including stuff like this. It helps if as many people as possible give their views.

Winston Smith · « **Reply #76 on:** August 27, 2016, 05:22:05 PM »

Colour me green!!!!!!!!!

Bob Ellis · « **Reply #77 on:** August 27, 2016, 05:49:57 PM »

Steve: I am glad that your one-row workshop was not scheduled for 10.00 because it would have clashed with my Tunes from the Yorkshire Dales workshop and I would have been unable to attend yours. Even scheduled when it was, I could not make the start of your workshop, as you know.

Ken Watson · « **Reply #78 on:** August 27, 2016, 06:21:15 PM »

Quote from: Bob Ellis on August 27, 2016, 05:49:57 PM

Steve: I am glad that your one-row workshop was not scheduled for 10.00 because it would have clashed with my Tunes from the Yorkshire Dales workshop and I would have been unable to attend yours. Even scheduled when it was, I could not make the start of your workshop, as you know.

So am I because I went to both of them as well !!!

Ken Watson · « **Reply #79 on:** August 27, 2016, 06:34:22 PM »

Just back from Whitby Folk Week...

Thanks to all the people who came to my English Music Sessions at Middle Earth.
I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

and thanks for all the birthday greetings yesterday!

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