Mon 26 - Thu 29 Mar Irish Folk Week Pete Cooper and Kathleen O'Sullivan Benslow Music
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london fiddle school Practical Fiddle Classes in Traditional Fiddle
Cecil Sharp House
2 Regent’s Park Road
London NW1 7AY
12-week course for Summer 2012 18 April - 18 July (half term break 6 June and no class on 27 June)
Fiddles in Performance
Wednesday evenings, 7.30-9.30pm
Cost: £120.00 (concessions £80.00)
There will be two public performances for course participants wishing to take part (not compulsory) on Thursday 21 June at Islington Folk Club and Saturday 30 June at a concert ('Still Growing') at Cecil Sharp House. NB. there will be no class on 6 June (half term break), nor 27 June.
As well as learning a great tune each week from various fiddle traditions (English, Old Time, Swedish, Scottish, New etc.), we'll develop chords, rhythm and back-up parts to create a big string band. Suffer from stagefright? We'll also look at performance anxiety and how to deal with it. Pete will teach tunes by ear, but will email music notation.
It's a friendly, mixed ability class - intermediate, new-to-folk, advanced - but not for beginning fiddlers. In the final sessions participants will be encouraged to create on-going fiddle bands.
Just turn up on the first night to enrol or, to reserve a place, please email pete@petecooper.com or call him on 020 8340 7760. If you're new to Pete's classes, come for a free session to see what it's like - bring your instrument. If you decide to join, you can sign up and pay for the course the next week.
Pete's teaching, seems to somehow highspeed and hardwire the music into the brain (Sheila Hill, The Guardian).
Wed 27 Jun - Sun 1 Jul
Pete will be at the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention
at the University of Ulster
Sun 29 Jul - Sat 4 Aug
Pete will be teaching:
Pete Cooper Style Fiddle Harald Haugaard's International Summer School
North Frisia, Germany
Other tutors include: Harald Haugaard, Hanneke Cassel, Helene Blum, Antti Järvelä website
4-10 Aug Pete Cooper & Richard Bolton English Roots: Fiddle & Cello Tunes, 1651 - 2012 Dartington International Summer School website
22 Aug
Pete will be giving two workshops at the European String Teachers Association (esta)
Summer School
Cheltenham
Details: tba
Sun 30 Sep
11.00am-5.00pm The Inner Life of Dance Tunes Dursley Town Hall
Dursley
Gloucestershire
GL11 4ES
Information: 01453 519243
07766 447804 website
'Feel the rhythmic pulse that lies at the heart of all good dance music and bring it out in your playing. Where's the beat? How do we convey it? In this practical workshop we'll study the distinctive inner rhythms of hornpipes, jigs, reels and other forms, learning some great tunes in the process.'
Individual Lessons
Pete teaches fiddle and mandolin most weekdays and weekday evenings at his flat, 3 Astra House, 53 Mount Pleasant Villas, Stroud Green, London N4 4HB. Beginners, improvers and advanced players welcome, including children aged nine or above.
Cost: £22.50 per half-hour, £45.00 per one-hour lesson.
Two-person, one-hour lesson £23.00 each. (You have to find your own lesson partner.)
Inquiries, phone Pete on 020 8340 7760 or email pete@petecooper.com
Free car parking except weekdays 10.00am-noon, when you can park round the back of Astra House. Public Transport: from Finsbury Park underground (Victoria & Piccadilly lines) / overground station take the Wells Terrace exit, then walk along Stroud Green Road (approximately 15 - 20 minutes) or take the W3 or W7 bus. Get off the W3 at the Ossian Road stop (on the junction of Ferme Park 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 Mountview Road, then first right into Mount Pleasant Villas.
From Crouch Hill overground train station (lower down the hill) walk up Crouch Hill and then turn right on Blythwood Road (and left up Mount Pleasant Villas), or further up turn right on Mountview Road (and right down Mount Pleasant Villas). Lost? Just give Pete a call on 020 8340 7760, but bear in mind that he doesn't pick up the phone while teaching.
