Time to Migrate - Brand New Teaching Website

Hello!
I started this blog back in 2005 - 16 years ago and over time have created a flute blog and a nyckelharpa teaching blog. I've now decided to amalgamate the three sites into one teaching website and put most of the material behind a paywall.

I always wanted to keep my teaching open for as many people as possible - and I took the opportunity to create many new videos during the pandemic. However - the time has come to paywall my work.

I will be moving these lessons and videos over - so if you come across a missing page, pop on over to my new website to find them!

Hope to see you over there!

Lots of Love

Vx

The Golden Birch

Hello!
A tune I wrote a really long time ago and blogged - but this is it taught by ear! So although the dots are here, ignore them! I've also put the original video at the bottom of this post. It's from 2006 - 15 years in-between the two. You can certainly see how technology has come along!!!
:))
Vicki

Colin's Cattle

Hello!
Colin's Cattle - lovely little tune!

Enjoy

:)

Vx

Cantigas Number 323 and 29

Hello!
It's Cantigas day!
Cantiga 323: Ontre toda-las vertudes and Cantiga 29 - Nas mentes Senpre teer

Both played on the Swedish Säckpipa.

Enjoy

:)

Vicki

Gone with the Tide

 Hello!
It's International Bagpipe Day today. I've been wanting to film this again on the border pipes but haven't yet managed to put in place the filming I wanted to do. So I grabbed the camera and just filmed it for Jock!
Enjoy
:))
Vicki

Gone with the Tide

Hello,
A really beautiful tune composed by Jock Agnew who sadly died in October this year. Written for border pipes - this is it played on Scottish Smallpipes in A.
:)
Enjoy
Vicki

Download the PDF of this tune - click here

Dusty Pipes

 Hello!
A nice little tune that I teach, so thought I should upload a video of it!
Enjoy
:))
Vx

Virtual Session in the bar at Halsway Manor - The säckpipa session!

Hello!

I'm pretty sure most people will know I spend most of my time on my nyckelharpa blog. I've been running a virtual session there since the middle of May. This week however, Jonny couldn't be with me and it became a säckpipa friendly session! So join in with me and see what happens when Jonny can't come!

The tune list is as follows:

• Långdans från Sollerön
• Menuetto efter Sven Donat
• Pollonesse efter Andreas Dahlgren Nr. 87
• Röra Röret
• Gärdsbygubbarnas Polska
• PDF of the dots
• Blog entry for this session

As we've said before, these sessions take a lot of time to put together and we definitely enjoy doing them. But I am up against a pretty hard deadline with the Virtual Halsway - so there may not be any sessions between now and then as I put together that weekend.

This leads me on to two little adverts!

The Virtual Halsway Weekend. I should have been at Halsway Manor on the 18th and 19th September with many other nyckelharpa players. As we can't do this I'm running some online workshops and session. You'll find all the information on my actual website - Click here! But we have Peter Hedlund, Leif Alpsj¨ø and Thor Pleijel doing some Zoom workshops. I am giving a nyckelharpa focussed Zoom concert in the evening. So check out the website and get yourself booked on!!

My second advert is for a Crowdfunding project I'm doing - an album of Dances from Terpsichore by Praetorius on nyckelharpa quintet. As of today I'm at 50% funded with three weeks to go.  Check it out!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/hearts-eyes

See you at the session on Sunday!

:))

Vicki

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