My local piping event – the Hexham piper’s gathering is fast approaching. Session on Friday night in the Abbey undercroft (trad F pitch), group playing during the day on Saturday followed by an evening concert and dance. There’ll be a follow up sesison at the Dipton Mill Pub on the Sunday but I don’t think I’ll mkae it this year.
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Blankenheim Piping Course
As musical interests go – Northumbrian Piping is unsurprisingly fairly geographically limited … to Northumberland.There are a fair number of pipers out there around the world and there a couple of annual gatherings in the US as well as a week long course in Germany.
25th-30th April – the Blankenheim Bordunale is a fantastic event – French pipes, hurdy gurdy, song, dance as well as Northumbrian pipes. I met up with Ruprecht Niepold last year- he plays the cornemuse, a Baroque relative of the Northumbrian pipes. The plan is to play some duets together since we’re the instruments are both effectively in ‘old pitch’.
I always look forward to travelling there, the mix of languages is great and the people are a joy to be with. I also get to relearn the mazurka…
New CD Release
My CD has finally made it’s way out into the world! "O’er Lang at the Fair" featuring English Concertina and Smallpipes released by
Veteran (VT157CD).