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Just announced: Harmonica Group Spring 2016
Harmonica Group Spring 2016 12 January – 22 March / 18:00 – 20:30 / More Info / Enrol Beginner Harmonica Course PLUS New Harmonica Choir Ten weeks of tooting for…
Just announced: Harmonica Course Summer 2015
Harmonica Course Summer 2015 Starts 21 April / More Info / Enrol A whole new ten week course for harmonicists of all standards! Three harmonica classes: Beginners; start from scratch….
Just announced: Harmonica Course Autumn 2015
Harmonica Course Autumn 2015 22 September – 01/12/2015 / 18:00 – 21:00 / More Info / Buy Tickets A ten week course for harmonicists of all standards! Three harmonica classes:…
Harmonica Irish Fiddle Courses Begin!
…incredibly supportive so transform your musical skills and enrol today. Harmonica Classes Taught by virtuoso player Mat Walklate. Learn this incredibly versatile instrument is surprisingly easy. Course open to all…
Just announced: Baked A La Ska, 23rd December.
…their fourth album Ska of Wonder and delivering seasonal ska treats such as “When You Wish Upon A Ska”, “Walking In The Air”, “We Three Kings”, “Harmonica for Christmas” and…
Acoustic Bhuna this autumn at Band on the Wall
…blues harmonica virtuoso and founder member of two of the most exciting bands on the Manchester scene at the moment; Honeyfeet and Walk. As a solo artist, Rik has a…
A five track introduction to Steve Knightley
…rabble-rousing track with wonderful folk fiddling and a gripping harmonica solo, but also lends itself to stripping down, with the lyrics becoming the focal point. Classic songwriting and Knightley at…
The Funky Knuckles have been listening to…
…incredible depth harmonically as well as rhythmically. Also his compositions have a good balance of complexity and strong melodies. His music always inspires me to play more thoughtfully and think…
Just announced: Folk Group Course Autumn 2015
…flute, accordion, harmonica. There will be group performance opportunities to play with Emma at local folk ’sessions’ in the Manchester area at the end of the course. A great and…
Guide to the Week of Music: Merry Airbrakes, Bill Laurance, new sounds and visuals
…in Asheville, North Carolina, he first became aware of blues music in 1954 and recalls having had various small instruments during his youth, including a blues harmonica. In the late…
Spain: A Mosaic of Musical Practice
…It is harmonically complex for a folk dance, with a basic harmonic sequence of I-VII-VI-V, elaborated through added notes. Sudden pauses, accented by strike chords on the guitar and stamps,…
The Music of South Africa
…starting notes of each line. Harmonically, there is significant diversity in the scalic systems of different Nguni groups, but generally ‘altered’ pentatonic and hexatonic scales are common (‘altered’ because, supposedly…
The Music of Jamaica: A ‘World Music’ Archetype
…flutes, fiddles, harmonicas, whistles, clarinets and trumpets in melodies, chordophones like the guitar for harmonies and drums, drum kit and idiophones (sticks, maracas, rattles) for denser musical texture). Its propensity…
Palm Wine Music
Palm wine music is a retrospective term for various early twentieth-century music styles that combined local West African instruments with the portable ones of visiting seamen: the concertina, harmonica and…
Robin Sunflower’s best two tone singles
With Baked a la Ska’s pre-christmas bash fast approaching, we thought we’d bring you another assortment of down right brilliant tracks from Baked a la Ska’s harmonica magician Robin Sunflower,…