December 2014 Newsletter

Posted by Ed Hicks on December 17, 2014

Trad Academy Xmas Party Tomorrow and Scandinavian Music Course in January

Hi Everyone,

This is just to remind you all the Trad Academy Christmas party will be taking place tomorrow at Chats Palace.  It’s a nice chance for everyone who’s enjoyed making music, song and dance with us over the year to come down and socialise.  Of course there’ll also be plenty of singing, live music, dancing, mince pies and gold coins.  Come on down!  Bring yourself and song or tune and an instrument or a dance.  It’d be nice to open up the floor a bit so anyone who wants to can make some music or organise a dance.  There’s details below.

Also in January we’ll be piloting our Scandinavian Music Course with Esbjorn Wettermark.  As well as being a highly experienced music educator Esbjorn is also an Ethnomusicologist and is currently completing his PhD so the course should be really interesting on many levels.  Esbjorn learned a lot of his repertoire directly from old musicians in Sweden, but as well as Swedish music he’ll also be covering aspects of Scandinavian Traditional Music more generally and the course may also serve as an introduction to playing folk music for instrumentalists from different background.  It’s going to be a really great course so don’t miss it!  Please note the course now starts on Thursday 22nd January.  Details below and on the website.

In other news the Harp Workshop was a great success.  We even had a few harmonica players turn up (I guess expecting a blues hard workshop!) but at least one of them cut his loses, borrowed one of Steph’s harps and got involved.  Thanks to Steph West for coming and leading it.  Also thanks to Dave DeLarre for running his Getting out of the three chord Trick workshops again.

It’s really been an big year with so many good things happening at Festivals, Chats Palace and at the Harrison Pub too.  Thanks to everyone who made it happen. Here’s to an even bigger and better 2015!

Also don’t forget to have a look at the videos page on the website.  It makes me really happy to see all the places we’ve all made music together!

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow night!

Ed

The Trad Academy Christmas Party!
8:00pm – 11:30pm, Thursday 18 Dec 2014
Free to one and all
Chats Palace, Hackney
With Everyone!
http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/course/the-trad-academy-chirstmas-party/

Scandinavian Music Course January 2014
Thursdays ∙ 7:00pm – 8:30pm ∙ 22 January 2015 to 26 February 2015
£10 a session or £50 for all six weeks (email us for information about concessions)
Chats Palace, Hackney
With Esbjorn Wettermark
Please email us to reserve your place
http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/course/swedishscandinavian-music/