Nancy Kerr Fiddle Workshop, Lewes Saturday Folk Club

About

Violinist, singer and composer Nancy Kerr has to date won 6 BBC Folk Awards including Folk Singer of the Year. She performs solo as well as with new supergroup Magpie Arc and has a multi-award-winning duo with James Fagan. She was named Honorary Professor of Performance and Composition at Leeds Conservatoire and is now Lecturer in Folk & Traditional Music at Newcastle University.

We will work together to learn new repertoire, at your pace and using a range of methods. Notation is available, but we will also explore how we can develop our musical ears and memories. Simple tunes and songs will be used as a jumping off point for deepening our expressive playing, improving tone and swing, and building our confidence to improvise and compose.

Provisional Timetable

10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (refreshments not included)

11.00 Repertoire: a range of global folk pieces which offer interesting discoveries about the fiddle and how we learn and remember melodies.

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Style: perspectives from Nancy's own training in fiddle traditions. Ornaments, bowing, and how we can make our playing "swing'

15.00 Tea/coffee break

15.15 Texture: We will build harmonies and full, expressive sounds as an ensemble to bring tunes (and songs if you would like!) to life.

16.45 Finish N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request.

Lewes Saturday Folk Club Workshop No 294 - nancykerr.co.uk Places £45 (2 under-25-year-olds £22)  Email valmaigoodyear@aol.com to reserve tickets & bring cash on the day In the evening, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan perform at Lewes Saturday Folk Club at the Elephant & Castle.  (£15; Email valmaigoodyear@aol.com to reserve tickets & bring cash on the night)