Programme 2019
*Please Note*Events and activities and the Acoustic Music Sessions can be added all the way up to the start of the festival. Artists and venues can change….though any changes will be announced well in advance of the festival. Click on items in the drop down box under TICKETS to book tickets from 4pm (UK time) on Tuesday 14th May 2019.
Source: Programme
To nagranie pierwszy raz słyszałem w wersji koncertowej… porywa…
Like all good stories, folk music is largely about three things: sex, death and politics. There might be a lot of carousing along the way, and there may be some discussion of farming or the occasional comedic skit to tickle your fancy, but the principal themes remain constant and they are always delivered with rude gusto. So, as we head towards this year’s Radio 2 Folk Awards, here are 10 examples of songs that go beyond the bounds of human decency (and are all the better for it)
Source: 10 of the most disturbing folk songs in history – BBC Music
This Scottish Country Dancing (SCD) website is intended as a reference to the traditional dancing of Scotland. It contains two main elements: ? Dance Instructions A-Z Dance Cribs which provides succinct descriptions of over 5000 Scottish Country Dances in a form readily accessible to the preparer of a dance programme; ? Comprehensive DICTIONARY Of Dance Terms which provides detailed definitions of the formal terms used in those instructions and by Scottish Country Dancers and teachers.
Source: Scottish Country Dancing
Trad music is very difficult, if not impossible to notate as played. For example, changes in bow pressure, subtleties of phrasing, ornaments, etc. There is standard notation for bow direction, but it?s rarely used for folk music. As with any style of contemporary folk music, and with early classical music, the written sources are nothing more than a rough indication of what actually gets played.
Ear LEARNING makes you a better player. Every player approaches a tune differently, and each repetition of the tune should aim to be unique. Learning by ear helps you become more attuned to these differences, and makes your own playing more varied and interesting. When you learn a tune by ear, the tune seems to enter a different part of your brain?the part that?s directly connected to sound and music. Though reading music is a very useful skill, when you stare at a piece of paper while you play you?re taxing your brain, making it do visual processing, instead of aural processing. For some people the visual processing makes it almost impossible for them to do some or all of the following: listen to what you are playing, to listen to what others are playing, pay attention to how you are handling your instrument, be cognizant of your body, draw the rhythm into your body. When you play your eyes should be used to make contact other musicians or the audience. Staring at the dots on the page makes you oblivious to what is going on around you ? just like walking and texting, or worse driving and texting.
Slowplayers.org: A Brief HistoryHello slowplayers past and present! The original and continuing goal of slowplayers.org is to help you learn to play Irish Traditional Music ? which includes traditional music with roots in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Skye, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney, the Shetland Islands, Wales, Cornwall, Northumberland, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia and Asturias, as well as music of the diasporas: Canada (Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Vancouver Island), Australia (including Tasmania), and New Zealand.
Puby w Szkocji są jak domy kultury do których nie wpuszcza się nieletnich. Część pubów to miejsca celebrowania rozgrywek piłkarskich a część, to miejsca spotkań, śpiewu i muzykowania na nie tylko tradycyjnych instrumentach ale zawsze tradycyjnej muzyki.
Moje wizyty w Szkocji to w ciągu dnia podziwiane materialne dziedzictwo kulturowe a wieczory to socjalizacja w pubach.
Polecam tę stronę by poznać kulturę od strony baru:
Glasgow pubs are more than just drinking establishments. They are historic landmarks, the focal points for special occasions and, in the past, the meeting places for the city’s merchants, tobacco lords and many Glasgow societies. They are one of the oldest established businesses in Glasgow, occupying prominent sites throughout the city. In short, Glasgow’s pubs are an important part of the city’s rich cultural and architectural heritage.Hundreds of historic pubs have been lost following the City Council’s extensive redevelopment programmes from the 1950s, this is why it is important that a web site has been brought together to record all those lost and forgotten pubs.
Source: Home Page
Właśnie dotarły:
Do tej pory mój zestaw akompaniamentowy to aluminiowy alt F i tworzywo G, A, Bb, C, D, strojone whistle Dixona. Te z tworzywa, świetnie stroją, ładne brzmienie ale nieco ciche (to generalnie cecha korpusów z tworzywa). Sprawdzają się doskonale do ćwiczenia w domu i wtedy gdy akompaniuję komuś w kameralnych warunkach. Niestety wystarczy większy pub i nieco szumu na sesji bym zginął w tle ;). Długo nosiłem się z zamiarem uzupełnienia zestawu a komplet whistli metalowych, głośniejszych.
W ramach testu kupiłem rok temu brakujący mi do zestawu alt F (aluminiowy bo nie ma wersji z tworzywa). Dixon między innymi, robi whistle z toczonego aluminium (grubość ścianki korpusu to 1 mm). Okazało się, że świetnie stroi (Dixon te whistle dostraja ręcznie), ma ładne i dość głośne ciepłe brzmienie. Tak więc jak już dojrzałem by dokupić zamienniki metalowe do plastików, które mam, padło na te Dixona.
Tak więc mam teraz:
Ten ostatni brzmi jak dzwon, nie kupowałem więc już aluminiowego D, bo ten mosiężny sopran D, który służy mi raczej tylko do solówek, przebija się zawsze i wszędzie ;). Jako że nie przepadam za low D, używam “w tej konkurencji” poprzecznego D, drewniany bez klapek (simple keyless system), który dla mnie brzmi znacznie lepiej niż whistle low D.. :).
Z radością właśnie wyjeżdżamy między innymi na ten koncert …
Although 2018 marks 40 years since Dougie MacLean?s debut album ? whose title track was his most iconic song, ?Caledonia? ? the perennially popular songsmith?s performing career began even earlier, in his high-school band with future Silly Wizard members Andy M Stewart and Martin Hadden, after which he spent three years with the Tannahill Weavers. But it?s as a solo artist, of course, that he?s long been one of Scotland?s most successful folk musicians, a status trebly affirmed in the last decade by his 200
https://youtu.be/f3zDpzsNmec
Source: Event | Celtic Connections