On 3 March, a brilliant French band from the Morvan will be coming to Hebden Bridge for an event under the umbrella of Les Panards Dansants that is over and above our usual programme. The musicians are Pierre Marceau (a superb diatonic accordionist, who is a former student of Christian Maes and has played and recorded with La P'tite Moisson and Les Cailloux), Quentin Millet (an excellent bagpiper, who also plays with Les Cailloux) and Sébastien Lagrange (a very talented chromatic accordionist, who is well known in French traditional music circles, having played and recorded with Christian Maes, Gael Rutkowski and Thierry Bruneau, amongst others).
They will teach a workshop of tunes from Morvan from 1.30 to 3.00 pm and a workshop of dances from Morvan from 3.30 until 5.00 pm. There will be a pub session with Marceau Millet Lagrange from 5.00 until 7.00 and a bal from 7.30 to 10.00 at which Marceau Millet Lagrange and Les Panards Dansants will take it in turns to provide the music. This exciting event (which doubles as my 70th birthday party!) will take place in Hebden Bridge Methodist Hall. Tickets for both the workshops are £2.00 and tickets for the bal are £5.00 and are available by e-mailing me: bob@bpellis.idps.co.uk
Flyers with further details can also be obtained by e-mailing me. There are also details on the Panards website:
http://www.frenchdanceleeds.co.uk/It would be great to see some melnetters there, so come if you can.