Guitar and Instrumental Week
July 25th - 30th, 2010
PLEASE NOTE: Information on this page currently relates to our 2009 event. Please use this as indicative only for our 2010 summer schools.
Tutors include: Eddie Walker, Jack Evans, Chris Foster, Dave Dick, Nigel Gatherer, Wendy Stewart, Laura Lockyer, Maggie & Dick Trickey, Pete Coe, Sue Coe, Bara Grimsdottir, Colin McNab (some still to be confirmed)
Many of our tutors are mulit-instrumentalists and there will be options available on a range of instruments. Eddie Walker, Jack Evans, Chris Foster and Dave Dick are our four principal guitar tutors, between them offering a range of styles and catering for players at all levels. Nigel Gatherer will concentrate on mandolin and mixed instrument sessions. We will cater for fiddle, whistle, smallpipes, harmonica / mouthorgan, bass and clarsach. Bara Grimsdottir will offer classes on music theory.
We are planning to add a number of visiting musicians for workshops and masterclasses. We will also be including song, songwriting and performance elements to the week.
Several of our tutors are also singers - although the focus of the week is on the guitar, the guitar and singers are natural allies and song will have its place in the week.
We do our best to respond to the individual needs of our students and the exact programme will remain flexible until the start of the week. The following is for guidance only.
Some of the courses:
Eddie Walker explores American Roots based acoustic guitar music that encompasses old time country blues, ragtime, hillbilly, swing and folk. more information on Eddie's class
Jack Evans and ‘Peerie Willie's 10th Chords’ Jack Evans is perhaps best known for his work with the Easy Club. He teaches guitar at the school of excellence at Plockton. Among other things Jack will be available to teach the 'Shetland' style of guitar accompaniment. Willie Johnson of Shetland started playing guitar with trad fiddlers in the early '30's, but learned jazz style comping and applied this to his dance band work. These are the sorts of voicings (known as 10ths by many older players, often referred to as Freddie Green chords after their most famous exponent) that though originating as jazz chords can be used to great effect with more open folky voicings to create a varied style and sound.
Chris Foster is a leading exponent on an English style of folk guitar using open tunings.
Dave Dick offers blues guitar and bottleneck techniques.
Concerts @ Living Tradition Summer Schools
During Living Tradition Summer Schools we will be bringing masters of the traditional arts to Dundee. This will offer a unique chance to hear them on a concert stage and rub shoulders with them in informal sessions. All evening Concerts at our Summer Schools are open to the public. Please be at the venue at 7.30 for a 7.45 start.
Concerts will be followed by our ‘Late Night Extra’ sessions which are open to people who have a concert ticket for that evening. Concert tickets are £8. A ‘concert season ticket’ for a week is £25. (Concerts are included in the overall ticket for people who are participating in the full summer school programme)
Guitar and Instrumental Week
Monday 20 Jul: Strings & Things
Tuesday 21 Jul: ‘Red Shoes on my Feet’ with Eddie Walker
Wednesday 22 Jul: Wendy Stewart & Friends
Thursday 23 Jul: Guitar Maestros in Concert
Tickets are available Online with payments by PayPal or Credit Card.
Guitar Week Concerts - Tickets £8
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Concert Season Ticket (Full Week)
All evening Concerts & Late Night Extras in any one week -Weekly Concert Season Ticket £25
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Registration is on Sunday afternoon. Our first meal is scheduled for 5.30pm in the Dining Room. In the evening there will be a 'Welcome Concert' and a chance to get to know your tutors and familiarise yourself with the venue and facilities.
Classes start at 9.15 on Monday morning and finish on Friday just before lunch. There will be a busy programme of evening activities and various social activities throughout the week.
Pictures from Guitar & Instrumental Week
Some pictures from the Summer Schools taken by Pete Heywood are available on flickr.com Flickr is a website for photographers. The link will take you to a 'Set' taken by Pete Heywood. You will also find 'sets' of other weeks and other folk related photos of Pete's flickr site.
This link will take you to some photos from Guitar Week 2009. Link to Guitar Week 2009 photos on Flickr
Photos from previous years:
Link to Guitar Week 2008 photos on Flickr
Click here for Guitar Week pictures, 2007
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