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Nigel Gatherer's BMG Workshops
Workshops 1-5
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BMG 1
BMG01
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4-6 July 2008 |
For my first BMG Summer School I chose to do American old-time music, a style which I have loved for many years. These great tunes I learned from friends or recordings.
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Burwell House, Cambs |
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"Old Time Mandolin" |
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15 |
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BMG 2
BMG02
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6 March 2010 |
The 2010 BMG Festival was held in Birmingham, so my one-hour workshop looked at traditional music of the area - always interesting to me. A good number attended the session.
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Edgbaston, Birmingham |
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"Music of the Midlands" |
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23 |
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BMG 3
BMG03
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8-10 June 2012 |
The 2012 BMG Festival was held in Alston Hall near Preston, and I returned to my first love, Scottish music. We also looked at a few Irish tunes under the general term "Celtic Music".
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Alston Hall, Preston |
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"Celtic Mandolin" |
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10 |
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| staff notation |
mando tab |
photos |
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BMG 4
BMG04
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15 March 2014 |
Another Festival, this time in Bristol, gave me the opportunity of doing some of my favourite English tunes. Dick's Maggot is a cracking 3/2 hornpipe.
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Bristol |
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"English Tunes" |
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21 |
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BMG 5
BMG05
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4-6 July 2014 |
The 2014 Summer School went into Scottish and Irish music in greater detail, exploring the structures and tunes and recurrent patterns and modes.
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Burwell House, Cambs |
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"Old Time Mandolin" |
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15 |
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