Where are you?

[hoopy mike]

Oh yes, been to Rock of Gibraltar once. Lovely people. Old bloke there, must have been 85 if a day, playing piano accordian like an angel.

Harping on, was he?

[benhall.1]

Oh yes, been to Rock of Gibraltar once. Lovely people. Old bloke there, must have been 85 if a day, playing piano accordian like an angel.

Harping on, was he?

Nah. It must mean he wasn't playing.

[Trawler]

Hooked up with an old friend from school today, and was persuaded to go to a fiddle workshop in Southampton - they run on the third Saturday of the month. It's run by a woman named Kath (can't remember her full name, sorry) and aimed at beginners.

It was a lovely small venue, and there were only seven people in the group. Kath taught us to play Shepherd's Hey by ear (something I need to develop) but then actually gave us the sheet music afterwards.

Anyway, I whipped out my trusty little Meg during the break, and ended up playing Sheherd's Hey to the sheet music, just out of curiousity. Much to my delight, the elderly gent next to me picked up his fiddle and started playing along with me! It was fab! As a beginner, playing with another person - another person playing a different instrument - was a huge amount of fun, especially as I didn't fluff up the notes.

I definitely enjoyed myself, and while I didn't take much away technically from the fiddle session, the opportunity to play both whistle and fiddle with other people was priceless!

-Trawler

[Adrian]

Greece, but no sessions here that I know of.

[Innocent Bystander]

Hooked up with an old friend from school today, and was persuaded to go to a fiddle workshop in Southampton - they run on the third Saturday of the month. It's run by a woman named Kath (can't remember her full name, sorry) and aimed at beginners.

It was a lovely small venue, and there were only seven people in the group. Kath taught us to play Shepherd's Hey by ear (something I need to develop) but then actually gave us the sheet music afterwards.

Anyway, I whipped out my trusty little Meg during the break, and ended up playing Sheherd's Hey to the sheet music, just out of curiousity. Much to my delight, the elderly gent next to me picked up his fiddle and started playing along with me! It was fab! As a beginner, playing with another person - another person playing a different instrument - was a huge amount of fun, especially as I didn't fluff up the notes.

I definitely enjoyed myself, and while I didn't take much away technically from the fiddle session, the opportunity to play both whistle and fiddle with other people was priceless!

-Trawler

Shepherd's Hey was the first tune I learned on the Tabor Pipe. It's almost magical when you get somebody spontaneously joining you! (It's also magical, but in a different way, when some idiot who doesn't know the tune starts noodling while you're playing. )