Oxford Slow Session

The Owl Light Trio are playing on Sunday (29th Oct) evening at the White Hart Pub in Wolvercote. Jane is our fiddle and piano teacher and naturally we are massive fans! Come along and find out for yourselves how good they are…

I’m sorry it’s taken so long to update the website. I’ve got a queue of tunes to add but first my old music notation software has decided to stop updating… and when my computer software upgraded, it stopped working… so I’ve had to find a new option…. and then learn how to use it!

Anyway, at last Ille Bhig: nice short and punchy. Fun to play. Sorry so few listening links – we’ll have to make one ourselves.

Not an easy tune to spell or say (sounds like cavers (rhymes with ravers) of kircubree), but such a lovely to tune to play (although a bit tricky to learn)… I’m sorry to add such a difficult tune (in F) but very well worth the effort. Sounds great played slowly.. Hope you enjoy Cavers of Kirdcudbright!

On Friday 21st April, the Folk Weekend Oxford starts and there are many great gigs, jolly ceilidhs and many good sessions to join…

Season tickets have sold out, but there are tickets available for individual events and many events do not need tickets at all… including our own Noah and Alex playing as Bow by Bow at 11.30am on Saturday 22nd April downstairs in Blackwells Bookshop. Also Shivelight (Harriet used to join us at the Gardners’ Arms) are playing on Sunday at 2.30pm in Blackwells.

You can download the full programme on the Folk Weekend website or download just the schedule pdf here.

Hope to see you there. Have fun!

I’ve managed to add the good tune, Seven Stars, suggested by Simon this Easter weekend and found some nice recordings on youtube. I hope you enjoy it too – Happy Easter!

The Folk Weekend Oxford still needs stewards… especially for the Saturday!

If you do four hours stewarding, you receive a free day ticket. Eight hours stewarding receives a full weekend ticket. You can specify when you are available and you can sign up for training as a stage and venue managers. Find out more here and complete the application form here.

And of course you should take a look at who’s playing… full timetable available here (including lots of sessions to join, dances as well as brilliant gigs).

A step forward for the slow session website… I’ve upgraded the site so that we can add our own recordings. Ray has led the way in providing a really useful recording of Four Up for next month’s tune of the month. Please be encouraged to make more recordings of your favourites to add to our pages.

Date for your diary

Owl Light Trio (see here) followed by the Rheingans Sisters (see here) at the Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford on 21st March 2017. Doors open at 7.30pm and Tickets are £12.

Buy your tickets in advance at wegottickets.com

This is a great venue to hear such great musicians, so despite it probably being a wintery Tuesday, come and warm your soul with some beautiful tunes.

Happy New Year 2017…

Well, it’s still January.
And before February starts, I’ve managed to put up the Four-Up Hornpipe and the Kesh Jig on the website so that we have plenty to work on as we start 2017. They are both fun tunes to play and not too difficult to learn so I hope you enjoy them.

Booley House is a lovely tune but in G seems to present some problems for the flutes and whistles… so I’ve transposed it to D and added it to the page. Let’s hope this key proves easier.

Sorry to upload three in one day, but I’ve also updated the All tunes A-Z  and in a way, it’s easier to do it all at once.

Finally managed to add Harvest Home – it’s gradually been appearing this week (hard to notice!) and now it’s there… a lovely new tune to learn over Christmas.