Please save the date!
The 2019 Folk Education Development Day
will be on Saturday 9 February at Cecil Sharp House, London. The focus will be on Caller Training –
(more details will be forwarded in due course through Folk Camps representative on the Folk Educators group).
Also Baring Gould Folk Song School:
We are sorry to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances Chris Coe is unable to join us this year, and we are pleased to say that JAMES FINDLAY will be joining us as guest tutor at this year’s Baring-Gould Song School.
Spaces still available, please see below for more details of what to expect:
Dedicated to local folk song collector Revd Sabine Baring-Gould the annual Folk Song School gives you time out to concentrate on your own singing: your voice, your performance, your repertoire.
Held at Wren Music’s headquarters Ebenezer Hall, a converted chapel in the delightful moorland town of Okehampton. You can find accommodation to fit most pockets, with hotels and guest houses, and YHA, and there are spaces for camping/camper vans at the Youth Hostel.
The Wren team is led by co-founders Paul Wilson and Marilyn Tucker, who will have spent most of this summer taking English folk song to other parts of Europe as far apart as Iceland and Sardinia.
Each day, tuition is done in a range of settings from large group work, to one-to-one surgeries with the tutors, and many additional small group sessions are developed as the week goes on.
Topics include: finding your strong voice, pitching, building your repertoire, understanding traditional songs and singers, accompaniments, overcoming nerves and so on . . .
The week is suitable for first time singers through to professionals – and the emphasis is on learner led activities, one-to-one and/or small group working with individual tutors and peer support.
Price: £300:
Plus an option on a £25 Baring-Gould Folk Weekend ticket (26th to 28th October)
For more details contact: Marilyn Tucker, Artistic Director
Wren Music, Ebenezer Hall, North Street, Okehampton, EX20 1AR
marilyn@wrenmusic.co.uk Tel: 01837 53754 www.wrenmusic.co.uk