Music Weekends and
Regular Workshops in the UK
This is a list of organised
Music Weekends and music workshops where the entertainment is
provided by those attending, they are mainly folk based but will
hopefully contain all other types of music. This page also contains
Folk/Acoustic sessions in the Cheshire and the North West area.
I have spent many an hour searching
the net for a regular workshops/sessions where I could join with
other people who play musical instruments and sing, form small
bands and perform.
If you run or know of any other
Music Weekends, Weeks or regular sessions in the UK please let
me know and I will include you on this menu page. Please email
Glynne Davies at Glycar@aol.com
Please scroll down
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The RagTag Band
If you are looking for a band for your fundraiser or
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Why not try The RagTag Band
See us at the Boarhound, Macclesfield 1st and 2nd Wednesdays
Please click on the
Headings below for more details about each weekend.
Weekends followed
by Local Events
Weekends
Folkus Residential Workshop Weekend (Clitheroe, Lancs)
+ Concert and Ceilidh,
February also Day Workshops
3rd, 4th, 5th February
2012
A Great wee weekend
of traditional Celtic music tuition and sessions for over 18s
in Fort Augustus,
by Loch Ness on
the 11th to 14th February 2011
http://www.feisgleannalbainn.co.uk/adult_feis.html
Kirkby Fleetham Winter Warmer
www.kirkbyfleethamfolkclub.co.uk
20th-22nd February
2009
Small festival with
sing around sessions
Folk and Fun Weekends
Held twice a year around
Northumberland
March and October
11th, 12th. 13th
March 2011 at Tan Hill Inn
7th, 8th, 9th Oct
2011 at The Heights, Keswick
Bollington Music Weekends
Held twice a year at
Bollington, 15 miles from Manchester,
The weekend before
May (Bank Holiday) and October
April 29th - May
1st 2011
14th, 15th 16th
October 2011
Please
visit the new web site www.igasmusic.co.uk
The Norwell Happening
27th 28th 29th May
2011
Singaround weekend
at The Plough, Norwell, Newark, Notts
Black Bull Bender
3rd, 4th, 5th June
2011
2nd, 3rd, 4th September
2011
Singaround weekend run in a barn near
Whitby
A Weekend Singaround
With Saturday Concert £6.00
All concert proceeds to Yorkshire
Cancer Research
Green Dragon Inn - Hardraw, Nr Hawes
13th, 14th, 15th
May 2011
Contact Norman Garbutt 01765 606
995
Click here for more information on
Music weekends at The Green Dragon
Forest Folk, Song & Ale
24th, 25th, 26th June
2011
North Boarhunt, near
Wickham.
Caravan and Camping
facitities
The Traveling Folk, Song & Ale Weekend
Held once a year in
July, East Sussex.
1st, 2nd, 3rd July
2011
Moonbeams Folk Festival
A small festival near
Scarborough in a Micro Brewery
8th, 9th July 2011
I attended the the
first of this excellent festival, in 2010 I could not get a ticket,
put it in your diary's
for the same weekend next year.
Cost £40 including
2 nights camping
click here to see the video.
White Horse Folk Festival
Dates 14th, 15th, 16th
August 2009
A small friendly festival held in Grove, Oxfordshire where there
is plenty of good singing,
some guests and good company.
A Weekend Singaround at Ken Bridge
16th, 17th, 18th September 2011
at The Ken Bridge Hotel, at the top
of Lock Ken, Scotland.
(More information email me)
Whittlebury Song & Ale Weekend
Unaccompanied Singing weekend in Northamptonshire.
September
24th, 25th,26th September
2010
" Darlington Folk Music Weekend"
at Darlington Arts Centre
on 28th, 29th, 30th October 2011.
Price (£115) for a weekends tuition, sessions and a ceilidh.
Details below or from Malcolm McKinnell. mob. 07966 368078.
www.darlingtonfolkmusicweekend.org.uk
email lyn.mckinnell@gmail.com
Ugthorpe Lodge Hotel
8 miles north of Whitby
Dave Howden's folk weekend
5th, 6th, 7th November
2010
Large car park for caravans, motor
homes or rooms in the lodge
Educational Courses
Stonesbarn Singing
Weekends with Maddy Prior
Several weekends
throughout the year, I have not been but had good reports.
http://www.maddyprior.co.uk/stonesbarn
Mellor Brook Fiddle Day
Fiddle training and evening Concert
with Katriona Gilmour and Tom Kitchin
Music from the North of England
Saturday 12th March 2011
Courses throughout the year for about 10 candidates
on each course, food provoded.
JSarts
Instrument Workshops
Fiddle,
Guitar, Melodeon, mixed instruments
http://www.jsarts.co.uk
Ryburn 3 Step, Calderdale
Sessions, Dances and Workshops
http://www.ryburn3step.org.uk
Folk Song and Music
Weekend
Friday night is
like a folk club each taking turns to perform
On this performance
Ray Dron, the Tutor sorts the pupils into groups and Saturday
is spent developing a set of challenges for perfomance on saturday
night. Sunday is the same as saturday with less challenges and
performance sunday afternoon.
A great weekend
for all, some previous musical experience would be best.
Several courses
offered at
Knuston Hall, Northamptonshire
www.knustonhall.org.uk
and Belstead House,
Ipswich 01473 686 321
If you would like further details
about the above weekends please email Glycar@aol.com mentioning the weekend and your address
and telephone number and I will pass on the information to the
organisers. I found it extremely difficult to find information
about these weekends but the search was well worth it, which is
why I had started this page, hopefully we can add weekends and
regular sessions to this page so that others will have an easier
task. Please if you know of similar events please let me know.
Local folk clubs in
Cheshire
Ragtag Band Jam
Night
The Boarhound, Macclesfield,
Cheshire
2nd Wednesday of each
month
8pm to 11pm
Come along and play, sing or listen
Admission Free
Click here for more details
The Midway Folk
Club
(Was the Red Bull
Folk Club)
Monday, The Midway
Tavern, Stockport
Folk music singaround
and occasional guests, everyone welcome, from 8.30pm
Also Tunes Session
2nd and 4th Wednesdays
at Ye Olde Vic Stockport
Folky Stuff for Folk Venues around Stockport
Jam Session
Monday 8.30pm to 11pm
The Fletcher Moss, Didsbury, Mondays fortnightly
Click here for details and dates
Music Session, The Cock, Henbury
, Macclesfield
Every Monday 8.30 - 11pm
Monday, The Davenport Arms Folk
Club, Woodford, Cheshire
NOTE. This session has changed
from Tuesday to Monday
Every Week on Monday
from 8pm
Click here for more information
Folk music session
Fidders Session at The Snow Goose,
Sunderland Street, Macclesfield
Weekly. 7.30pm - 11.30pm, click here for the website
Tuesday, Session
night at the Railway View, Macclesfield
at the beginning
of the road to Langley
and also a session
at the Pack Horse, Macclesfield
On the road out tp Chelford
Singing and Tunes session,
all styles, everyone welcome, from 9.00pm
Click Here For More Details and Dates
Click here to listen to an mp3 file live at the Meridian
where we were originally
Tuesday, The Snow Goose, Sunderland
Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire
From 8.30pm Alternate Tuesday from
the Railway View and Pack Horse.
Tuesday, The
Crown Inn Folk Club, Heaton Lane, under the viaduct, Stockport
Folk music singaround,
everyone welcome, from 8.30pm
Click here to listen to an mp3 live at the Crown Inn
Folk Club
Tuesday, The Sale Folk Club
at 8.00pm First night 28th October
2008.
It will be in the form of SINGERS' NIGHTS that will take place
every Tuesday.
The United Services Club
Southern Road (off Mersey Rd)
Sale
M33 6HQ
Click
here for their website
Cajun Session
Last Tuesday of each Month
9pm to 11pm ish
The Beech, Chorlton
The Cross Keys, Knutsford
Wednesday Night from 8.30pm
1st and 3rd Wednesday
Tunes Session
The Olde Vic, Stockport (Edgeley)
Near the station approach (back entrance)
Wednesday night from 8.30pm
2nd and 4th Wednesday
Tunes Session
The Beech, Chorlton
1st and 3rd Wednesday Singing with
Tunes
2nd and 4th mainly Tunes
8pm -11pm
Music Singaround Session
8pm - 11.30pm
2nd Thursday of each month
The Old Star Inn
Swanlow Lane
Winsford Cheshire
CW7 4BL
Dance
Leap To Your Feet
Appalachian Dance Team
and the Soya Ceilidh Band
Based in Bolton
Click here to see the Videos
Phil
one of the 'Leap to your Feet' dancers
Makes
Clogs click here for his web site
www.nw-clogs.co.uk
Local Folk Clubs with guests
Poynton Folk Club
http://www.porkiesfolkclub.co.uk
First friday of each month from 7.30pm
Royal British Legion, Poynton
Bollington Folk Club (Arthur's)
Every Friday from 8.30pm
Mainly guests, occasional sing around
nights
Dog and Partridge, Bollinton
http://www.whitenancy.freeserve.co.uk
Lymm (Railway) Folk Club
Every Thursday from 8.30pm
Alternate guests and singers nights
www.lymmfolkclub.org.uk
Lancashire
Burnley Folk Club
Every Wednesday from 9pm
Click here for the website
The Steamer pub in Fleetwood on
Thursday from 8.30
Have a regular singaround with a resident
band (Spitting on a roast)
http://myspace.com/fleetwoodfolkclub
Bromley Cross Folk Club
Friday (Monthly) at The Railway
http://www.bromleycrossfolkclub.org.uk
Links
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My Songs on CD
and as MP3 Downloads
Looking to book a Ceilidh Band then try The Soya Ceilidh
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As I have said above, the weekends
are great but not quite what I was initially looking for. I am
male, live in the North West, south of Manchester, play Guitar
and Mandolin. Although I can sing it takes me a long time to learn
the words and initially I was looking for a workshop where I could
join in and form small bands, play my instruments and let others
sing, perhaps joining in the singing occasionally. I am as I imagine
quite a few guitar/instrument players are, looking to team up
with other like minded players to form a small band and play at
small venues, even play some of the few songs I have written (Now
on CD), so if you know of a small band that need an extra player
or want to team up and form a band and you are local to Manchester,
Stockport, Macclessfield, please contact me. Glycar@aol.com
Hopefully the new twice
monthly Friday night music sessions at Woodford British Legion
will meet the above criteria
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The new CD from Twist of Fate
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The
UK web site for all your Folking needs.
Folk Music Links
The
Music Well
The source of roots and folk music
for the North of England
Folky Stuff
Listings of Folk venues around Stockport
The North West Federation of Folk Clubs
A great source of Folk Clubs
Folking.com
A great source of Folk Information
www.mostlyacousticcumbria.co.uk
A guide to music around Kendal
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sessions and information
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