[NSP] Kathryn Tickell
A fiddler friend of mine has sent me a BBC iplayer link to a Radio Scotland programme Travelling Folk featuring Chris Stout from Fiddlers Bid. Also on the same programme is Kathryn Tickell. Kathryn is on from about 8 minutes for about half an hour. Here is the link for anyone who's interested [1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0175jnm#segments -- References 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0175jnm#segments To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Alnwick Northumbrian Gathering
Hi all Just to remind you that the Alnwick Northumbrian Gathering is coming up in a couple of weeks' time on Friday 12th/Saturday 13th November. There will be a (concert pitch) session on the Friday evening at Blackmore's function room from 7.30 pm. On Saturday there are workshops for pipes, fiddle, accordion and singing in the morning (11.00-12.30) at Alnwick Playhouse/Blackmores, followed by competitions from 1.00 in all the above classes as well as poetry, singing, miscellaneous instruments, duets and clogging. Light refreshments will be available at the Playhouse from 9.30. In the evening there is a concert with compere Ernie Coe at Alnwick Playhouse from 6.30, and a ceilidh dance at St Michael's Hall from 8.00 with Fiddlers Elbow and friends. If anyone would like any further information please visit our website www.alnwickpipers.co.uk where the competition rules can also be found. Or, by all means, contact me off-list and I will e-mail you a flier with lots of info. We look forward to seeing you there. Kind regards Di Jevons Alnwick Northumbrian Gathering Committee d...@picklewood.info To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Nortumbrian Piping Courses at Rothbury
--=_NextPart_001_0049_01CB500B.BE4FE340 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For info, if anyone is interested in joining one of the Northumbrian piping courses at Rothbury this autumn which start on Tuesday 21st September - there are 3 - beginners, intermediate (both with tutor - Dave Medd), and then a piping 'club' which is actually a self-programming group without a regular tutor who decide a programme for themselves. Membership of any club/group/association is not a requirement for any of the classes. There are a number of sets of pipes available for loan to beginners (for free), so please spread the word. I have attached the course details and also an enrolment form. If you need any further information, contact the centre at Dr Thomlinson Middle School at Rothbury on 01669 621292. Please note the dialling code shown on the course details is incorrect. It should be 01669 not 01661. The form and appropriate fee should be returned to: Adult Education Centre Dr Thomlinson Middle School Silverton Lane Rothbury NE65 7RJ or you can enrol in person at the first class. Happy piping! Di Jevons --=_NextPart_001_0049_01CB500B.BE4FE340 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 META content=MSHTML 6.00.6000.17080 name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ff DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080For info, if anyone is interested in joiningnbsp;one of the Northumbrian piping courses at Rothbury this autumn which start on Tuesday 21stnbsp;Septembernbsp;- there are 3 - beginners, intermediate (both withnbsp;tutor - Dave Medd), and then a piping 'club' which is actually a self-programming group without a regular tutor who decide a programme for themselves.nbsp;Membership of any club/group/association is Unot/U a requirement for any of the classes./FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080/FONT/STRONGnbsp;/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080There are anbsp;number of sets of pipes available for loannbsp;to beginners (fornbsp;free), so please spread the word./FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080/FONT/STRONGnbsp;/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080I have attached the course details and also an enrolment form.nbsp; If you need any further information, contact the centre at Dr Thomlinson Middle School at Rothbury on 01669 621292.nbsp; Please note the dialling code shown on the course details is incorrect. It should be 01669 not 01661./FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080/FONT/STRONGnbsp;/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080The form andnbsp;appropriate feenbsp;should be returned to:/FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080/FONT/STRONGnbsp;/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080Adult Education Centre/FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080Dr Thomlinson Middle School/FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080Silverton Lane/FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080Rothbury/FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080NE65 7RJ/FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080/FONT/STRONGnbsp;/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080or you can enrol in person at the first class./FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080/FONT/STRONGnbsp;/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080Happy piping!/FONT/STRONG/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080/FONT/STRONGnbsp;/DIV DIVSTRONGFONT color=#008080Di Jevons/FONT/STRONG/DIV/BODY/HTML --=_NextPart_001_0049_01CB500B.BE4FE340-- -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Nortumbrian Piping Courses at Rothbury
Sorry, forgot I'm not able to send attachments on this list. Here is the appropriate web address, and both the brochure and enrolment form are available on this page. [1]http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=400 Di Jevons -- References 1. http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=400 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Alnwick Pipers' Society Website
Hi All Just to let you know that the APS website is now OK to use, having been cleared of its 'corruption'! Regards Di Jevons To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] APS website
Hi All Have advised the person who maintains the website for us of the problems which have occurred so hope the site will be sorted soon. Apologies for any inconvenience. Regards Di Jevons for APS To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: NPS Third Folio
Hear, hear!!! My sentiments exactly. Di Jevons - Original Message - From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 10:36 AM Subject: [NSP] NPS Third Folio Excellent to have this latest collection of tunes assembled in the new NPS Third Collection Folio! Thanks to Julia, Colin and all others concerned. Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Northumbria Pipe Course 11-16 October - Places available
What about some 'give and take' here? What of the business I imagine inevitably generated over the years via the NPS for a professional pipemaker through holding the positions of Chairman of and Technical Adviser to, the Society? Di Jevons - Original Message - From: rosspi...@aol.com To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:41 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: Northumbria Pipe Course 11-16 October - Places available I wonder if this advert for a privately run course is allowed on this list. This is a course that is not run by the NPS but for the benefit of the person who is running it who although taking the risk and time to organise it is also taking any profit that may arise. CR -Original Message- From: suzefis...@aol.com To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:24 Subject: [NSP] Northumbria Pipe Course 11-16 October - Places available There are still a few places left on this course, if anyone is interested in attending or would like some more information please contact me offlist. Thanks Susan. 2nd NORTHUMBRIA PIPING WEEK Sunday 11th – Friday 16th October 2009 A residential piping course suitable for all playing levels (except absolute beginners) based in a licensed hotel in Whitley Bay. Tutors for the week include Andy May, Chris Ormston, Chris Evans. Plus other guest tutors and performers. Limited accommodation for non-playing partners. Some non-residential playing places will be available. Costs: Tuition (over 5 days), events, outings etc. Includes lunch, tea and coffee – £230 per player (individual lessons may be available at extra cost) Accommodation – BB £140 - £245 for 7 nights (depending on level of facilities chosen) Evening meals at participants’ expense Part-week bookings will be considered. For further details and an application form contact: Susan Craven 166 Plessey Road, BLYTH, N’land NE24 3JA 07764 483595 suzefis...@aol.com AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.51/2297 - Release Date: 08/11/09 18:27:00
[NSP] Re: this list is safer now
Anthony I wholeheartedly agree with you, and count myself extremely fortunate to be able to play with Jimmy on a regular basis. Besides holding hundreds of tunes in his mental database, he has this amazing bounce in his playing, and he's also brilliant at keeping time with a very secure foot tap which has been an enormous boon to Alnwick Pipers' Society (assuming his foot is in one's line of sight of course!) However, as I've said to Jimmy several times, some of us 'late starters' just haven't got the time (in terms of the number of years still available to us) to learn all the tunes that we want to learn by ear so have to resort to using music at least at the start, but then I accept that the ideal is, of course, to commit them to memory as soon as possible when one can really start to play with feeling. Problems arise when performing those same tunes with a different group of people and then some sort of (preferably unwritten) consensus on how they are played is needed. This I guess comes from years of playing with others, and just as importantly, listening! Jimmy will say that learning tunes by ear isn't difficult, but he has had in excess of 60 years to hone the skill and has been fortunate enough to learn many of them from the 'late and greats'. I'm sure that most of the people on this list are 'old hands' but, to anyone starting out, as it were, I would say from my own experience, that the first few tunes were very definitely a huge obstacle and much patience, perserverance and practice were required to overcome this hurdle, but then the joy of actually playing them confidently without the music for the first time was immeasurable! And it does get (slightly) easier as time goes on! I do feel very strongly that we should all seize any and every opportunity to listen and learn from musicians like Jimmy Little, and others of the same ilk. Di Jevons - Original Message - From: Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:08 AM Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now Or just too busy making music? I'm involved in a project with Jimmy Little at the moment. He was one of the ranting Teddy Boys spied by Louis Killen at Alnwick in the late 50s and learnt pipes from his father and grandfather in an isolated farmhouse on Alnwick Moor. None of them read dots. He came up with a goodun last week when he said a lot of people now rely on dots too much and the tunes comes out as flat as the sheet they are reading it from. Got me thinking, surely style is secondary to life/bounce in the music? As aye Anthony --- On Mon, 8/6/09, colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk wrote: From: colin cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 8 June, 2009, 8:46 PM That's the last one I got as well. The new member's list appears just as quiet as well. Perhaps we've all run out of tubs to thump :-) Colin Hill - Original Message - From: Dave S [1]david...@pt.lu To: [2]...@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 7:11 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now Is it really this dead after the what me mail ? or has a lurgy got settled Dave S Wayne Cripps wrote: I should also add that the NSP mail list can no longer transmit computer viruses. Wayne To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --- - No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.37/2130 - Release Date: 05/23/09 07:00:00 -- References 1. http://uk.mc862.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=david...@pt.lu 2. http://uk.mc862.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=...@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.56/2162 - Release Date: 06/08/09 06:01:00
[NSP] Re: this list is safer now
Dear All Surely one of the main aims of all the various piping groups to which we belong must be to encourage new players and I therefore think there always has to be 'give and take' where there is a 'mixed experience' group of players. One does not want to discourage the less experienced who perhaps know few tunes from memory and maybe struggle to read music but at the same time those who have been playing for a long time and know the majority of the repertoire from memory want to be challenged, so I believe one has to cater for both extremes during an 'open' session (and an awful lot of people who are 'in the middle', as it were.) I do think however there is a danger that 'life and bounce' can be mistaken for 'breakneck speed' and whilst I am firmly of the opinion that one does not progress if one does not leave one's 'comfort zone' from time to time, I do not see that there is a lot to be gained by playing lots of tunes in succession at a speed at which no-one in the room (or very few) can actually manage. From a listening point of view, I would rather hear a tune played at a slightly slower pace and with more style and feeling, rather than sounding 'out of control'. I think the watchword, as ever, is COMPROMISE!!! Di - Original Message - From: rosspi...@aol.com To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Cc: anth...@robbpipes.com Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:31 AM Subject: [NSP] Re: this list is safer now I am pleased to read about the respect given to Jimmy Little up at Alnwick. The group of pipers at Morpeth who mostly play from music and sound as 'flat as the paper the music is printed on' are not interested in any input from people like myself. They seem to be more concerned about all starting together and playing at a speed the slowest can manage which is nothing to do with 'life and bounce' in the music. Style comes second or maybe as a result of getting life into the music. Colin R -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.59/2165 - Release Date: 06/09/09 05:53:00
[NSP] Re: Colin Ross
Am I missing something here? Being very much on the fringe, as it were, I would have thought that as Colin has stood down from the committee for medical reasons on the advice of his doctor, that the same reasons would necessarily preclude him from selection for A.N.other post, for the good of his health. Di Jevons - Original Message - From: Simon James si...@simonjames.net To: Dartmouth NPS nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:55 AM Subject: [NSP] Re: Colin Ross I don't often comment these days, but, like a lot of NPS Members, I'm still lurking... I'd support this Simon On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Helen Capes [1]helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I agree with Anthony. I think Colin has to be one of the most deserving people in decades. Surely this is a great opportunity to appoint a president in recognition of a huge contribution to our instrument. Helen - Original Message - From: Anthony Robb [2]anth...@robbpipes.com To: Dartmouth NPS [3]...@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:55 PM Subject: [NSP] Colin Ross Dear All What a shame Colin Ross has stood down from the chairmanship of the society in these circumstances. Colin I do not always see eye to eye about some things, but the fact remains that his devotion to, and knowledge of piping, and pipes-making remain unsurpassed. After over 40 years of absolute commitment to our cause I would have thought he'd have been an obvious contender for the Presidency of the Society. Is this me being totally naive? I feel an opportunity to recognise the contribution of one of the giants of the Northumbrian piping world has been missed. As aye Anthony -- To get on or off this list see list information at [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz 2. mailto:anth...@robbpipes.com 3. mailto:nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.36/2125 - Release Date: 05/20/09 18:03:00
[NSP] Re: Tich's Reel
John
I think it was Tich Richardson, guitarist with Boys of the Lough who was
brother to Dave Richardson ('Calliope House') who is still in the band.
Tich was killed in a car accident in Northumberland in 1983(?).
Di
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To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
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Subject: [NSP] Tich's Reel
Who or what was Tich's Reel named after? Also, are there plans to
collect all of Will Taylor's tunes in place? Perhaps, this has already
been done and I'm behind the times (once again).
thanks,
John --
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