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Anglo Concertina Workshop Weekends by John Kirkpatrick MBE

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John is running two weekend workshops for Anglo Concertina, based in Bishop’s Castle, South Shropshire.

They start each Friday lunchtime and go on till Sunday afternoon, finishing at 4.00 p.m.

The starting point will be Traditional English Dance Tunes and Folk Song Accompaniments.

April 8th – 10th – CHORDS AND KEYS ON THE ANGLO

A foundation session for players eager to explore how to add chords in the left hand to melodies in the right hand.

Probably not suitable for absolute beginners, nor for those who prefer the Irish style on the Anglo.

A chance to fully explore the two home keys, and peep at what’s involved with other keys and relative minors.

October 14th – 16th – MORE CHORDS AND KEYS ON THE ANGLO

A weekend for players who are already investigating the harmonic style and adding left-hand chords to their tunes. Join John in exploring how far you can travel away from the home keys with this approach!

Again, not for those who prefer the Irish style. 

Spaces are limited. Full details at: https://www.johnkirkpatrick.co.uk/squeezer-weekends.asp

In The Church Barn, Bishop’s Castle, South Shropshire.

Chords and Keys on the Anglo – not really suitable for complete beginners.

You’ll need an Anglo with at least 30 buttons.

Website: www.johnkirkpatrick.co.uk
Email: squeezer@johnkirkpatrick.co.uk

The DUET CONCERTINA WORKSHOP Project

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Calling All Duet players!!!

– The DUET CONCERTINA WORKSHOP Project –

You are invited to submit original compositions or arrangements (of copyright-free material) for all systems of Duet concertina, for potential inclusion in a ‘Tutor + Anthology’ publication being compiled and edited by Iris Bishop. All arrangements from ‘nice & easy’ to more adventurous, complex arrangements are welcome for consideration.

Please submit any material (as jpg or pdf files) directly to Iris at: irisbishopdesign@gmail.com

ICA Concert and Workshop

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Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne

ICA Ambassador Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne gave a 1-hour concert on his Facebook channel, sponsored by the ICA.

The concert was live on Sunday, December 6th at 4pm GMT. Click the link to see the recording of the concert.

We all know how live music has suffered this year.  This is why the ICA supported this concert, which is publicly available, and also commissioned a workshop (below) as a benefit to ICA members. 

Cohen would welcome contributions to his PayPal “tips box” (click the link to donate).

Additionally, Cohen has prepared an excellent all-systems concertina workshop which is available only to ICA members.

Join the ICA here to take advantage of this superb opportunity.

ICA Membership and other registrations

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Confusing as it may be, joining the ICA does not immediately give access to the members-only area of this website, concertina.org. The membership database is quite separate from the website, and not all members want or need an account on the website.

To add to the confusion, we also have a Register for logging member’s concertinas, which we hope will be useful in cases of theft or other insurance claims.

Hence there are several uses of the word ‘register’ on this site that may be leading to confusion.

There are ways of joining the ICA from here, ways of registering for an account on the site as well as a means of adding your instruments to the Concertina Register.

These are three separate things. If you wish to access the members-only items, you need to fulfil both membership and register separately on the website.

English Concertina on iPod in Art Project “The Spirit of Hope”.

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This exhibition took place in Park Szilassy in Bex-les-Bains, Switzerland from 12/06/2011 to 25/09/2011.

English Concertina on iPod in “Spirit of Hope”

Visitors of the exhibition could borrow a headphone with an iPod at the entrance to the exhibition. You can walk through the park, look at the works of the other artists and listen to the history of Lady Louisa Hope and the English Concertina, but also to the concertina music of that period, specially recorded for this occasion by Pauline de Snoo.

Concertinas in Japan

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On my first night I found myself in The Hartford Café, an Aladdin’s cave of vinyl in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Prompted by a photo of my Wheatstone the owner, Mr Yanagisawa, disappeared behind the bar and emerged triumphantly with a John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris album. This was followed by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger’s “Manchester Angel” and “A Tale of Ale”, a Free Reed recording of British drinking songs.Read more…

The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History

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Anglo Musings

Many of you know that I have been working off and on for about five years now on a history of the Anglo concertina. That work is now finished; The Anglo-German Concertina: A Social History is now out, at Amazon.com. There are two volumes, with 620 pages, over 440 illustrations, and 28 transcriptions. The book concentrates on the people who have played both German and Anglo-German instruments from the time of Carl Uhlig’s invention of 1834 to the present, and includes chapters on England, Ireland, Africa (both Boers and various African ethnic groups), Australia, New Zealand, and North America, as well as concertina use at Sea.

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