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Subject: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: sapper82 Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:33 AM On BBC Radio 3's Early Misic Show and available on "Listen Again" for the next week; Lucy Skeaping talking to Nigel Eaton and Steve Turner about the Hurdy Gurdy with lots of musical exapmles. Click here, then Click "Radio Player" and look for Early Music Show on list. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST,Hurdy gurdy fan Date: 26 Feb 06 - 08:37 AM Also try www.danteferrara.co.uk if you like the hurdy gurdy and any other medieval instrument. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike Date: 26 Feb 06 - 12:50 PM and nyckelharpas are basically bowed hurdy gurdys.. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: kendall Date: 26 Feb 06 - 01:29 PM Not many posts here, I wonder why... |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Anglo Date: 26 Feb 06 - 09:08 PM Well, Kendall, I just taped the program, and I appreciate sapper82 for drawing my attention to it or I would have missed it. Think yourself lucky I'm not planning on bringing one of my hurdy-gurdies to the house concert next Saturday. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike Date: 27 Feb 06 - 01:04 AM is this blowzabella a mudcatter? Nigel? interesting interview... Nigel's dad builds hurdy gurdies.. they speak of a symphony...or symphonia.... i saw one of these htis wsummer in Sweden. and Fooles Troupe has one, i believe!@ they differentiate between the "Barrel Organ" often associated with "organ grinder" who has a monkey with a cup who collects donations for them... this is a fascinating radio show. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: katlaughing Date: 27 Feb 06 - 02:05 AM Oh good, I can't wait to listen to it! Thanks, sapper, for letting us know. I think I played one in a past life.:-) kat |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Rasener Date: 27 Feb 06 - 02:09 AM Dante can been seen live at Market Rasen Folk Club on Friday March 10th 2006 Dante Ferrara |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 27 Feb 06 - 02:12 AM Well, Open Mike, I've got a cup... |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Flash Company Date: 27 Feb 06 - 09:33 AM I'll follow this up when my builders have gone, Always wanted to make one of these boyos, might get round to itthis year. FC |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 27 Feb 06 - 01:44 PM I too am interested in making one. I'm going to use the instructions at Dennis Havlena's site http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/hurdy.htm I'm still looking for thin wood for the top. Last week I went to a concert by the early-music group Piffaro. Afterwards, I noted a group of pleased and interested people who wanted to see the hurdy gurdy. There's hope for mankind yet. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST Date: 27 Feb 06 - 06:08 PM Jim O'Rourke made a great record called 'Happy Days' (which came out on John Fahey's Revenant label) - it is basically an hour-long minimalist drone composition for hurdy gurdy and guitar. Recommended for fans of Tony Conrad, I'd say. Check it out! |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: breezy Date: 28 Feb 06 - 05:36 AM Nuada, from Ely, feature Hurdy Gurdy and will be appearing at The Wandering Windward Folk song Club in St Albans on Sunday 12th march at the Comfort Hotel , when they'll be supporting Chris Flegg holywell Hill ad Doors open 7.30 non-smoke |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Flash Company Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:16 AM leeneia.... When I made a guitar, which was more years ago than I care to count, there were plenty of sources for suitable timbers, If I can find any still in operation I will let you know. The name Hobgoblin springs to mind for some reason. FC |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: breezy Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:27 AM its a chain of music shops. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST Date: 28 Feb 06 - 07:32 AM I Love the hurdy gurdy, I have loads of albums by Blowzabella and one by Nigel Eton. My mates hate them of course, but I play them anyone way. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: John P Date: 28 Feb 06 - 09:18 AM Over the Water Hurdy Gurdy Festival In the second picture down, that's me in the front row with the accordion. Where else would anyone not notice that I'm being so rude as to play the accordion? There's also loads of HG info at Alden and Cali Hackmann's Olympic Instrument site |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 28 Feb 06 - 10:11 AM Thanks for the pix, John P. How nice it is to see all those people with the courage to play what they enjoy. Have you ever heard of the Texas Toot? It's a week-long early music gathering in Austin. One feature of the Toot is the "Krumhorn Konklave," a session in a beer garden where you can play any instrument as long as it buzzes. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: sapper82 Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:41 PM Very glad people found my posating of use! Thankyou! I saw Dante Ferrara at Wheaton Aston last year and really enjoyed his performance! |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Rasener Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:51 PM He is good in't he and funny with some of his songs. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: JohnB Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:35 PM Great programme, listening to it right now, the play again link took a bit of finding, but it is there or should I say here. JohnB |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Bert Date: 04 Mar 06 - 12:00 PM refresh |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike Date: 04 Mar 06 - 01:09 PM ok-"put hurdy in the filter box"? sounds like the title of a bizarre song perhaps the filter box is like a dust bin?? thanks for refreshing this thread.. any way i hope that BBC sound clip is still there.. if it is there for a week... here is a message i just got from my Scandinavian list.. there was a performance at the nordic music fest. by The Hurdy Gurdy Group...the main sponsor of that fest. is Northside records...www.noside.com * NPR's All Things Considered ran a rave review of the great CD by HURDY-GURDY, "Prototyp" (NSD 6084) on March 2. Here's a link to the story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5242278. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Tootler Date: 04 Mar 06 - 05:50 PM An interesting programme. I saw Misericordia some years ago at an English Heritage event. They are very good and the spent quite some time talking to both myself and my kids about their instruments and the music. It was interesting that it is Stephen rather than Anne Marie who plays the harp as the harp seems to have become an almost exclusively female preserve. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Mar 06 - 07:05 PM National Public Radio (in the U.S.) had something this past week about a band interested in the hurdy gurdy sound and using an electronic version of the instrument, though they also had the analog (!) version available as well. I don't remember which program, but it was a fairly detailed discussion with examples. I'll post a link if I remember which program it was on. SRS |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: black walnut Date: 04 Mar 06 - 09:07 PM I'm in the studio right now, recording another family CD...this week we had Ben Grossman come in to add some hurdy~gurdy. A fabulous underused instrument. ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Lancashire Lad Date: 05 Mar 06 - 04:41 AM Fans of Hurdy Gurdy may like to have a listen to Bof!. Their page with music samples is here Cheers LL |
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Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike Date: 05 Mar 06 - 01:48 PM yes check march 4 1:09 for NPR link |
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