English tunes practice, Chippenham Fest

Subject: English tunes practice, Chippenham Fest
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 23 May 11 - 11:18 AM

Chippenham Folk Festival 2011 UK, 27-30 May.

Spare Parts Concertina Band are running English tunes practice sessions for any instrument, and Bryan Creer has put the music on the Tunes page
of the band website. It is in pdf and midi form (slow and medium speeds).

The practice sessions will be in the Rose & Crown Coach House immediately before the main daily English sessions.

The tunes are :- Saturday 28th. May, 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. (Event 228)
Bonny Kate, Little Burnt Potato, Elsey's Waltz, Huntsman's Chorus

Sunday 29th. April, 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. (Event 428)
Family Jig, In the Toyshop, Silverton Polka, Waiting for a Partner

Monday 30th. April 11.00 - 12.00 a.m. (Event 625)
Rope Waltz, Rosalie the Prairie Flower, Whose Jig, Shepton Mallet
Hornpipe

We are also running part-playing sessions for concertinas only; the music is available in the same way from the same page of the band website.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: English tunes practice, Chippenham Fest
From: Mo the caller
Date: 24 May 11 - 05:45 AM

Enjoy your selves.
We will be at Chester Festival which is within walking distance and 170 miles nearer.
The Friday Ceilidh with Albireo will probably reach it's climax with Tom going mad on his fiddle in a superb rendering of Bonny Kate. When he plays it I always think of you and that first 'learn the tunes' workshop you did at Chippenham a few years ago, when we hadn't been to any sessions.
You (and other helpful people) got us started.

Subject: RE: English tunes practice, Chippenham Fest
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 24 May 11 - 06:28 AM

Thanks, Mo! We'll miss you at Chippenham, but you'l have a splendid time at Chester. I hope we'll catch up with you at a festival or two this summer.

We thought Bonny Kate was worth revisiting as it's still deservedly very popular.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: English tunes practice, Chippenham Fest
From: Mo the caller
Date: 24 May 11 - 05:30 PM

And topical, of course.
I've been calling the dance at local clubs, along with Prince William.

Subject: RE: English tunes practice, Chippenham Fest
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 25 May 11 - 03:44 AM

Tee hee! We had wondered about including Prince William's March in the selection, but thought the sessions might become the subject of a mass picket led by Vic Gammon.

Valmai (Lewes)