Festival Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Festival Date:
Saturday 12th May 2012
Next Meeting:
General Meeting
Monday 6th February at The Red Lion, Bloxham
7.30 pm
ALL WELCOME
NOT just fiddles
After the success of the Folk Music Workshops held in March, it was decided that we should maintain the group, once a month, to start from October 2010 onwards.
What a great litttle festival we had! The weather was kinder this year and the sun shone on Bloxham.
And now -
to plan the next! But see what we achieved in 2011!
Elephant & Castle
Who can come along?
The workshops were mainly attended by fiddle players but we did have the occasional flautist, squeezebox and mandolin player turn up. The idea of continuing the group, is to encourage community music and learning from each other. If you can play any instrument, even a little, you will be encouraged. This is a purely instrumental group.
Learning by ear or from 'dots'...?
We are going to do both. This means that those who are memory challenged can take away crib sheets; but those who learn by ear, will be able to either take away a live recording of the workshop or meeting. We encourage any type of learning.
Tune Sharing
If you have a favourite tune that you'd like to share with the group, all we ask you to do is to print/photocopy it a dozen times, and bring it along to the group. If you are unable to find the music for it, please dont worry, as there are musicians who can notate the music for you.
Best use of time
We hope to learn alsorts of tunes from any country, date or style. An interest has been shown in learning Morris tunes, so we hope to invite some Morris Musicians to not only come and teach us the tunes but maybe to invite us along to a Morris practice to show how the dance fits the tune. These sessions are two hours long and we would like to split the time into two. This allows for the first hour to be dedicated to learning Morris tunes for dance; the second allows for the swapping of tunes. If this becomes a popular group, we will look at ways of expanding to twice a month.
Guest tutors
Many talented people from the area both perform and teach folk music - so we hope to be able to invite them along in the future, to lead.
How much?
£7 for single two hour session
£20 for 4 sessions (Oct to Jan inc.)
£35 for 8 sessions (Oct to May inc.)
When?
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
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Comments
Most Enjoyable Evening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwvvpyqslfU
So having had a few months off - we start again
Another year over and already we're thinking about the next one. Look out for details for the family walking Treasure Hunt in September, start and finish at the Warriner School!!
Another Cracking Festival - Well done everybody.
The online Bloxham Broadsheet has some photos.
Tickets on sale for the BloxFeast!
Stalls have sold out!
Over 45 prizes on the Raffle. All stages booked and suuplied... BloxFest 2011 is ON!
Well done to everyone involved with Bloxfest. For a first time effort it was one of the best organised festivals and supported small festival I have been too. Even with a little rain it showed that young and older generations can mix and have fun all together. so a big congratulations to the whole community..already looking forward to next years.
What a fantastic day - well done to Sian and the team and already looking forward to Bloxfest 2011!!
Fantastic Day - we'll be back next year :-)
Fantastically well organised. Well done. There are a few photos of the festival on the Bloxham Broadsheet website
Was a brill day and eve. Please please do it again next year
We had the best time! hoping it will be on again next year!
A dam fine festival. Good bands, great place and no mud :D
Awesome thanks to everyone who came down to Blox- Fest. Great day.
wicked festival in our little Bloxham, the first wow! like I said you set the seed its was your idea and you made a dream come true - thank you!! On the last set 'Leatherat' (brilliant) I felt like i was somewhere else and not in Bloxham (such a lot of music talent there)