We had the first nyckelharpa workshop in the UK at Norwich Festival on Saturday with six players attending. Johan Hedin was the tutor and four of us stayed for a further extra afternoon workshop which we asked him (very nicely) if he would do for us. His band Bazar Bla are excellent and played two concert spots.

The next nyckelharpa event will be at the Settle Scandinavian Festival at May Day Bank Holiday. The following details are from the Yorkshire Dales Workshop website:

'Subject to successful funding we will be offering:

A programme of Uppland, Swedish traditions with Cajsa Ekstav, Ditte Andersson and Michael Näslund (who form the group Tresmak) teaching fiddle and nyckelharp plus Uppland dances, joined by fiddler Bosse Larsson (nephew of Viksta Lasse)


Vegar Vårdal, fiddler, hardanger fiddle player and dancer will lead the Norwegian programme of music and dance (there will be a total of four Norwegian artists)

Kerry Fletcher will be running a complete programme of dance workshops for beginners and improvers.'

Cheers
Sarah