Hi, Nick!
I don't know if you saw my post earlier this week. Three Chicago-area
hurdy gurdy players will be presenting a hurdy gurdy demonstration this
Saturday at the University of Chicago Folk festival. Here's a link to
some photos from our program in 2011:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1602995870715.2077286.1110631830&type=3&l=d60532441e
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We have also had as many as a dozen players get together in Chicago
several times for an all-day hurdy gurdy event. You can sign up for
updates at the Yahoo Groups Chicago Hurdy Gurdy list at
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/ChicagoHG/
Here's a summary of our last event:
"We had a dozen people show up for our Chicago area hurdy gurdy
get-together on Saturday 9/25/2010. Attendees ranged from local to two
from Bloomington Indiana and two from near Detroit Michigan.
I think there were 14 hurdy gurdies present, representing a vast range
of designs:
* several simple box-shaped instruments
* a number of guitar-body-shaped instruments like my Volksgurdy
* a real lute-back design
* several of Mel Dorries' new hourglass-shaped models, the fanciest one
sporting two courses of six sympathetic strings, three melody strings
for playing in different keys, six drones with at least a couple of
buzzy bridges and three internal pickups with a mixer and tuner built
in! And it had a rich mellow sound.
Activities included:
* introducing each of ourselves, our backgrounds, and our interests
* introducing each hurdy gurdy, and describing any novel features
* learning a tune and playing it together
* talking about cottoning the strings and applying rosin
* experimenting with different ways of using a microphone for hurdy
gurdy pickup
* taking turns playing tunes in our own particular style
* discussing future events, including: another in-town event; possibly a
weekend event where we would bring in a hurdy gurdy teacher; checking on
doing another workshop for the University of Chicago Folk Festival
* great food and visiting!"
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There is also a workshop in Brown County Indiana coming up in April that
might appeal to hurdy gurdy players that can't get to the Over the Water
hurdy gurdy event on the west coast. I'm hoping to go; perhaps some
other local players will be there as well.
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Here's some information on these Chicago-area hurdy gurdy events:
Several Chicago-area folks will be presenting a hurdy gurdy
demonstration at the University of Chicago Folk Festival this Saturday,
2/11/12. We'll be performing in Ida Noyes Hall, West Lounge, from noon
to 12:50.
Festival details at: http://www.uofcfolk.org/
Workshop details at: http://www.uofcfolk.org/2012/workshops.html
Hurdy gurdy weekend workshop in Brown County, Indiana 4/20/12 to
4/22/12; details at:
http://earlymusicinmotion.org/EMIM/Hurdy-Gurdy_Workshops.html
http://earlymusicinmotion.org/EMIM/Hurdy-Gurdy_Schedule.html
http://earlymusicinmotion.org/EMIM/H-G_Workshops_Brochure_files/Hurdy%20Gurdy%20Brochure.pdf
Very best regards,
-Gary P. (in rural northern Illinois near Marengo, between Elgin and
Rockford IL)
Gary Plazyk, [email protected]
Fuzzy Bear Farm
http://www.BearCreekMusic.us
http://www.KishwaukeeRamblers.com
"Music is too important to leave to the professionals." -Robert Shaw
On 1/30/2012 9:39 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
Are there and Hurdy Gurdy players in the Chicago area? I'm about 45
miles North of Chicago in Waukegan and would love to meet other local
players, swap tunes, sing and play songs etc and learn more about
technique and such like.
Thanks - Nick
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