After taking a week out for half term between courses everything starts up again at Chats Palace this Thursday.  Firstly there’s another edition of Pete Thomas’ “How To Play Jazz Course” starting this Thursday.  This course was really popular last time and Pete’s a great teacher.  Through teaching jazz melodies by ear and breaking down seemingly complicated chord changes into their component parts, this course demystifies playing jazz in a friendly atmosphere.  Particularly suited to players of folk instruments (accordions, guitars, banjos, fiddles, clarinets, mandolins, concertinas) it’s a great way to unpack the mysteries of improvisation.  The course culminates with a change to come and play with the house band downstairs at Chats Palace for a room full of appreciative swing dancers.

As well as this the sea shanty choir continues to go from strength to strength and have started doing quite a few gigs.  Big thank you to Joe for inviting us all to her bar in West London for their party.  There’s a video of some of the singing from that night here too.  It’s been uploaded to within facebook so you might have to be logged into see it, but I’m not sure how to get around that so here’s the link…

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152213141699066

Don’t forget to like the trad academy page on facebook if you haven’t already ;-).

There’s also a Cut a Shine dance coming up for St Patrick’s day as well so look out for that too.

There’s more details below, look forward to seeing you all soon,

Ed

How to Play Jazz
Thursdays ∙ 7:00pm – 8:30pm ∙ 27 February 2014 to 3 April 2014
£10 a session or £50 for all six weeks (email us for information about concessions)
Chats Palace, Hackney
Please email us to reserve your place

Sea Shanty Choir
Thursdays ∙ 7:30pm – 9:30pm ∙ 27 February 2014 to 3 April 2014
£6/session or £30 for the whole course (email us for information about concessions)
Chats Palace, Hackney
Please email us to reserve your place