london fiddle school
Practical Fiddle Classes in Traditional Fiddle

Cecil Sharp House
2 Regent’s Park Road
Camden Town, NW1 7AY

Fiddle Music of England & Wales 
Wednesdays 7.30 - 9.30pm
29 April - 8 July (1/2 term break 27 May)
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regent’s Park Road
Camden Town, London NW1 7AY

Join a friendly, mixed-ability adult group (not for complete beginners on violin) for this new 10-week course. Previous knowledge of folk styles not necessary. We’ll learn a tune a week by ear - some taken from Pete’s book/CD collection ‘English Fiddle Tunes’ (Schott ED 12758), others he’s learned on recent trips to the Fiddle Festival of  Wales (see below) - with written music to take away. You’re welcome to drop in for one class, free, to check it out, before enrolling for the term.
Cost: £75.00 (concessions £50.00)
A phone call to Pete on 020 8340 7760 or email pete@petecooper.com
reserves you a place, but you can also just turn up on the night.

Individual Lessons
Pete teaches at 3 Astra House, 53 Mount Pleasant Villas, N4 4HB, giving personal fiddle and mandolin tuition on weekdays and weekday evenings. Beginners, improvers and advanced players welcome, including children aged nine or above. Cost:£21.00 per half-hour, £42.00 per one-hour lesson.
Two-person, one-hour lesson, £22.00 each.
Inquiries, phone Pete on 020 8340 7760 or email pete@petecooper.com

To get to Astra House by public transport, take the Wells Terrace exit from Finsbury Park station, then either walk (approximately 15 - 20 minutes) or take the W3 or W7 bus. Get off the W3 at the junction of Ferme Park Road / Ossian Road, walk to the end of Ossian Road and turn right up the hill. Or get off the W7 before the top of Crouch Hill, turn right along Mount View Road, then first right into Mount Pleasant Villas.

Fiddles on Fire
Newcastle-Gateshead
11-12 April
The Sage, St Mary's Sq, Gateshead, NE8 2JR.
Pete is among the tutors (English fiddle) at the biennial feast of workshops and concerts by some of the world’s finest fiddle players, this year taking place on Easter weekend.
www.thesagegateshead.org
folkworks 0191 443 4661
ticketoffice@thesagegateshead.org
Folkworks, The Sage, St Mary's Sq, Gateshead, NE8 2JR.

Fiddles on Fire
London
15-18 April
at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
This exciting new part of the festival runs from Tuesday 15 to Saturday 18 April, with a series of evening concerts in Hall One. Workshops and daytime concerts also take place on the Saturday. The evening concert programme is:
Wed 15 Blazin’ Fiddles
Thurs16 Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Harald Haugaard Trio
Fri 17 Dave Swarbrick and Friends
Sat 18 Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill, Frankie Gavin

 
Workshops on Saturday 18 April are as follows:
11am to 12.30
Indian Fiddle Styles  - Candida Connolly
Scottish Fiddle Style (beginners)  Clare McLaughlin
Playing for Morris - Mat Green with Pete Cooper
Welsh Fiddle traditions - Sian Phillips

2pm - 3.30
Scottish Fiddle style (Intermediate/ Advanced) - Clare McLaughlin
Romanian Gypsy Fiddle - Joe Townsend
Irish Fiddle tunes and style (Beginners)  – Karen Ryan
American Fiddle Styles  - Rick Townend

4.00 to 5.30
Scandinavian fiddle - Emma Reid
Irish ornamentation on the Fiddle  (Intermediate/Advanced) Karen Ryan
Klezmer Fiddle - Ilana Cravitz
Eastern European Improvising styles on the fiddle - Joe Townsend

As well as the workshops there are short daytime concerts as well:
12.45    Ilana Cravitz - Klezmer Fiddle
2.15     Methera
4pm      Karnatic Violin
6pm      Jessica Duchen and Philippe Graffin: ‘Hungarian Dances’:

Details www.kingsplace.co.uk
Box Office
tickets@kingsplace.co.uk
Box Office 020 7520 1490

Strings at Witney
Henry Box School
Witney, Oxfordshire
16-17 May 2009
Matt Cranitch, Ilana Cravitz, Gordon Tyrrall, Bruce MacGregor, Gill Redmond and Pete Cooper are the tutors at this most enjoyable weekend in the fiddle music calendar (originally scheduled for February but postponed because of snow). Pete leads an Old Time Stringband workshop (basic, intermediate and advanced level players) on the Saturday, and Old Time fiddle (intermediate/ advanced) on Sunday.
Details: 01865 714778
www.handsonmusic.org.uk

Fiddle Festival of Wales
1-4 October 2009
Stackpole Centre,
near Pembroke
Details of this amazing festival to follow...
www.fiddlefestivalofwales.org.uk

Benslow Music Trust
Friday 30 October - Sunday 1 November
Hitchin
Herts.
‘Pete offers an inspiring, practical introduction to playing traditional airs and dance tunes on the violin, for players of intermediate ability or above - previous experience of traditional fiddling not required. We’ll learn jigs, reels, hornpipes, strathspeys, polkas etc by ear, complete with traditional bowing and left-hand techniques, and play them by heart. Written music to take away.’
Resident: £190.00
Non-resident: £155.00
www.benslow.org

London Fiddle School Winter Fiddle Party
7.30pm, Saturday 5 December
All welcome (recommended donation £5.00)