Alex has done some stirling work comparing versions (of which there are many) and finding one that might suit us and even finding some places to hear it on youtube. So time to learn a new tune… Have a try of Soldier’s Joy!
Folk Weekend Oxford needs your help
Folk Weekend Oxford needs more stewards!
Please sign up (click on here for form to fill in).
If you agree to steward (no experience necessary and training will be given for more advanced roles if you would like them) for fours hours, you gain a free day ticket to the festival. If you help for eight hours, then you have a wristband for the whole weekend.
The timetable for the weekend is now available, so when you have signed up, you will receive an email asking for your preferred shifts so you can choose your time to fit around your preferred concerts.
And don’t forget Oxford Slow Session has a slot too… Come along to the Chequers Pub (High St) 5pm – 8pm on Sunday evening, 22nd April 2018. Do join in!
Another tune: Tommy Peoples’s Reel
Just in case you have the time to learn a new tune (ha!), Tommy People’s Reel is well worth learning. Really lovely tune although tricky to make it solid and sound easy. Hope you like it.
Owl Light launch gig on Friday!
Probably the best folk music you’ll hear in Oxford… coming to the Quaker Meeting House on St Giles at 7pm this Friday 23rd February. The Owl Light Trio take a folk tune and weave harmonies and variations to create wizardry. Hope to see you there!
Link on La Sansonette page fixed
Sorry about the link to the wrong pdf. I think it’s fixed now. And I’ve managed to update the pdf of A-Z of all tunes for printing… so that gets you all 54 tunes!
Many thanks to those who found my error.
Two tunes added…
Finally now that Finale songwriter is working again (phew), I can quit struggling with new programmes and spend the time looking for good links to listen to… I have been meaning to post up these two tunes since last summer as they are fun to play (at any speed). I have some more to post too as I try to catch up on the backlog… so hope to post some more next week…. meanwhile, I hope you enjoy these two:
La Sansonette and
Change of venue for Sunday 5th November
Dear Slow Sessionistas
I’m afraid at the last minute the St Aldates Pub discovered they had 70 football supporters coming on Sunday to watch the football…
but fortunately the manager has helped me find an alternative: The Chequers Pub (just off the High St, round the corner from St Aldates).
We’ll meet there at 3.45pm (to give people a chance to come from St Aldgate’s Tavern). We have an upstairs space at the end of the Chequers pub. The landlord is really friendly and seemed positively keen to have us! So please buy a drink and join in.
(Also problems continue with Jericho… December session has to be a week early on 26th November but we’re booked to be back in the Jericho Tavern)
Hope to see you on Sunday!
Best wishes,
suke
Gig to look forward to: Sunday 29th October, White Hart Wolvercote
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…
Finally another tune: Ille Bhig
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.
Added Cavers of Kirkcudbright
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!
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