Music Weekends and
Regular Workshops in the UK
This is a list of organised
Music Weekends and music workshops where the entertainment is
provided by those attending, they are mainly folk based but will
hopefully contain all other types of music. This page also contains
Folk/Acoustic sessions in the Cheshire and the North West area.
I have spent many an hour searching
the net for a regular workshops/sessions where I could join with
other people who play musical instruments and sing, form small
bands and perform.
If you run or know of any other
Music Weekends, Weeks or regular sessions in the UK please let
me know and I will include you on this menu page. Please email
Glynne Davies at Glycar@aol.com
Please visit my personal
site for all matters music
www.glynnedavies.co.uk
The RagTag Band
If you are looking for a band for your fundraiser or
social night
Why not try The RagTag Band
Please click on the
Headings below for more details about each weekend.
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much more information
Folkus Residential Workshop Weekend (Clitheroe, Lancs)
+ Concert and Ceilidh,
February also Day Workshops
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th,
February 2011
A Great wee weekend
of traditional Celtic music tuition and sessions for over 18s
in Fort Augustus,
by Loch Ness on
the 12th to 15th February 2010
http://www.feisgleannalbainn.co.uk/adult_feis.html
Kirkby Fleetham Winter Warmer
www.kirkbyfleethamfolkclub.co.uk
20th-22nd February
2009
Small festival with
sing around sessions
Folk and Fun Weekends
Held twice a year around
Northumberland
March and October
5th, 6th, 7th, March
2010
8th, 9th, 10th Oct
2010 tbc
Bollington Music Weekends
Held twice a year at
Bollington, 15 miles from Manchester,
The weekend before
May (Bank Holiday) and October
30th April, 1st,
2nd May 2010
15th, 16th, 17th
October 2010
Please
visit the new web site www.igasmusic.co.uk
The Norwell Happening
22nd,23rd, 24th
MAY 2009
Singaround weekend
at The Plough, Norwell, Newark, Notts
Black Bull Bender
4th, 5th, 6th June
2010
3rd, 4th, 5th September
2010
Singaround weekend run in a barn near
Whitby
A Weekend Singaround
With Saturday Concert £6.00
All concert proceeds to Yorkshire
Cancer Research
Green Dragon Inn - Hardraw, Nr Hawes
14th, 15th, 16th
May 2010
Contact Norman Garbutt 01765 606
995
Click here for more information on
Music weekends at The Green Dragon
Durham Traditional Music Festival
Croxdale
Singarounds, workshops, competitions,
concerts, barndance
25th, 26th, 27th
June 2010 tbc (Contact Fred
01388 811 299)
Forest Folk, Song & Ale
26th, 27th, 28th June
2009
North Boarhunt, near
Wickham.
Caravan and Camping
facitities
The Traveling Folk, Song & Ale Weekend
Held once a year in
July, East Sussex.
3rd, 4th, 5th July
2009
Moonbeams Folk Festival
A small festival near
Scarborough
9th, 10th July 2010
I attended this excellent
festival, put it in your diary's for the same weekend next year.
Cost £25 including
2 nights camping
click here to see the video.
Staithes Acoustic
Event
North Yorkshire
Thursday 19th July
- Sunday 22nd July 2007
Enquiries to Tony Leonard
tonyleonard@tiscali.co.uk
White Horse Folk Festival
Dates 14th, 15th, 16th
August 2009
A small friendly festival held in Grove, Oxfordshire where there
is plenty of good singing,
some guests and good company.
Whittlebury Song & Ale Weekend
Unaccompanied Singing weekend in Northamptonshire.
September
26th - 28th September
2008
" Darlington Folk Music Weekend"
at Darlington Arts Centre
on 29th, 30th, 31st October 2010.
Price (£105) for a weekends tuition, sessions and a ceilidh.
Details below or from Malcolm McKinnell. mob. 07966 368078.
www.darlingtonfolkmusicweekend.org.uk
email lyn.mckinnell@gmail.com
Ugthorpe Lodge Hotel
8 miles north of Whitby
Dave Howden's folk weekend
5th, 6th, 7th November 2010
Large car park for caravans, motor
homes or rooms in the lodge
Educational Courses
Stonesbarn Singing
Weekends with Maddy Prior
Several weekends
throughout the year, I have not been but had good reports.
http://www.maddyprior.co.uk/stonesbarn
Mellor Brook Fiddle Day
Music from the North of England
Saturday 13th March 2010
Courses throughout the year for about 10 candidates
on each course, food provoded.
JSarts
Instrument Workshops
Fiddle,
Guitar, Melodeon, mixed instruments
http://www.jsarts.co.uk
Ryburn 3 Step, Calderdale
Sessions, Dances and Workshops
http://www.ryburn3step.org.uk
Folk Song and Music
Weekend
Friday night is
like a folk club each taking turns to perform
On this performance
Ray Dron, the Tutor sorts the pupils into groups and Saturday
is spent developing a set of challenges for perfomance on saturday
night. Sunday is the same as saturday with less challenges and
performance sunday afternoon.
A great weekend
for all, some previous musical experience would be best.
Several courses
offered at
Knuston Hall, Northamptonshire
www.knustonhall.org.uk
and Belstead House,
Ipswich 01473 686 321
New Year House Party
Belstead House,
Ipswich 01473 686 321
A 4 day folk dance
party ending on new years day
An excellent end
of the year folk dances or if like me you join the allcomers band
playing for the dances, workshops during the day and party pieces
on new year's eve. Food and accommodation is excellent as is the
price.
If you would like further details
about the above weekends please email Glycar@aol.com mentioning the weekend and your address
and telephone number and I will pass on the information to the
organisers. I found it extremely difficult to find information
about these weekends but the search was well worth it, which is
why I had started this page, hopefully we can add weekends and
regular sessions to this page so that others will have an easier
task. Please if you know of similar events please let me know.
Local folk clubs in
Cheshire
Ragtag Band Jam Night
The Boarhound, Macclesfield,
Cheshire
1st and 2nd Wednesdays
of each month
8pm to 11pm
Come along and play, sing or listen
Admission Free
Click here for more details
The Midway Folk
Club
(Was the Red Bull
Folk Club)
Monday, The Midway
Tavern, Stockport
Folk music singaround
and occasional guests, everyone welcome, from 8.30pm
Also Tunes Session
2nd and 4th Wednesdays
at Ye Olde Vic Stockport
Folky Stuff for Folk Venues around Stockport
Jam Session
Monday 8.30pm to 11pm
The Fletcher Moss, Didsbury and the Gardeners Arms,
Timperley
on alternate Mondays
Click here for details and dates
The Waltzing Weasel
Session
Between New Mills and
Hayfield
Bluegrass and Folk
session where all join in
(all welcome)
Monday 8pm - 11pm
Pub Web Address http://www.w-weasel.co.uk
Tuesday, Session
night at the Railway View, Macclesfield
at the beginning
of the road to Langley
Singing and Tunes session,
all styles, everyone welcome, from 9.00pm
Click Here For More Details and Dates
Click here to listen to an mp3 file live at the Meridian
where we were originally
Tuesday, The Crown
Inn Folk Club, Heaton Lane, under the viaduct, Stockport
Folk music singaround,
everyone welcome, from 8.30pm
Click here to listen to an mp3 live at the Crown Inn
Folk Club
Tuesday, The Davenport Arms Folk
Club, Woodford, Cheshire
Every Other Week on Tuesdays from 8pm
Click here for more information
Folk music session
Tuesday, The Sale Folk Club
at 8.00pm First night 28th October
2008.
It will be in the form of SINGERS' NIGHTS that will take place
every Tuesday.
The United Services Club
Southern Road (off Mersey Rd)
Sale
M33 6HQ
Click
here for their website
The Cross Keys, Knutsford
Wednesday Night from 8.30pm
1st and 3rd Wednesday
Tunes Session
The Olde Vic, Stockport (Edgeley)
Near the station approach (back entrance)
Wednesday night from 8.30pm
2nd and 4th Wednesday
Tunes Session
The Plough afternoon Sing around Session
1st and 3rd Sunday
1pm - 4pm
Click here for more details
The Plough, Heaton Lane, Heaton Moor,
Stockport
Chester Songwriters Folk Session
9.00pm - 11.30pm
Every Monday
Ye Olde Custom House
Inn
Watergate street
Chester CH1 2LB
Click here for more information
Leap To Your Feet
Appalachian Dance Team
and the Soya Ceilidh Band
Based in Bolton
Click here to see the Videos
Phil
one of the 'Leap to your Feet' dancers
Makes
Clogs click here for his web site
www.nw-clogs.co.uk
Local Folk Clubs with guests
Poynton Folk Club
First friday of each month from 7.30pm
Royal British Legion, Poynton
Bollington Folk Club (Arthur's)
Every Friday from 8.30pm
Mainly guests, occasional sing around
nights
Dog and Partridge, Bollinton
http://www.whitenancy.freeserve.co.uk
Lymm (Railway) Folk Club
Every Thursday from 8.30pm
Alternate guests and singers nights
www.lymmfolkclub.org.uk
Lancashire
Burnley Folk Club
Every Wednesday from 9pm
Click here for the website
The Steamer pub in Fleetwood on
Thursday from 8.30
Have a regular singaround with a resident
band (Spitting on a roast)
http://myspace.com/fleetwoodfolkclub
Bromley Cross Folk Club
Friday (Monthly) at The Railway
http://www.bromleycrossfolkclub.org.uk
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As I have said above, the weekends
are great but not quite what I was initially looking for. I am
male, live in the North West, south of Manchester, play Guitar
and Mandolin. Although I can sing it takes me a long time to learn
the words and initially I was looking for a workshop where I could
join in and form small bands, play my instruments and let others
sing, perhaps joining in the singing occasionally. I am as I imagine
quite a few guitar/instrument players are, looking to team up
with other like minded players to form a small band and play at
small venues, even play some of the few songs I have written (Now
on CD), so if you know of a small band that need an extra player
or want to team up and form a band and you are local to Manchester,
Stockport, Macclessfield, please contact me. Glycar@aol.com
Hopefully the new twice
monthly Friday night music sessions at Woodford British Legion
will meet the above criteria
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The
UK web site for all your Folking needs.
Folk Music Links
The
Music Well
The source of roots and folk music
for the North of England
Folky Stuff
Listings of Folk venues around Stockport
The North West Federation of Folk Clubs
A great source of Folk Clubs
Folking.com
A great source of Folk Information
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A guide to music around Kendal
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