Cecil Sharp House

Events at Cecil Sharp House

• Accordion Workshop

  Workshop

  31 Oct 2009 to 12 Dec 2009

  Students work both from music and by ear: copies music and MP3 audio files. The tutor is Paul Hutchinson.

   

• A Ceremony of Carols and Custom

  Special event

  20 Dec 2009 to 20 Dec 2009

  The annual all-day event of festive celebration. An afternoon Tea Dance with caller Brenda Godrich and music from Maggie Fletcher, Vic Godrich and Alison Messer. An Evening Concert hosted by Taffy Thomas MBE with an array of performers including the Hoddesdon Crownsmen, Towersey Morris Men, Laura Thomas, Students from the Fosbrook Folk Education Trust School of Traditional Dance, Music and Song, the Cecil Sharp House Community Choir and you, the audience. Lots of carols for everyone to sing.

   

• Banjo Workshop

  Workshop

  31 Oct 2009 to 12 Dec 2009

  The beginners' Banjo course aims to offer an introduction to playing 5-string banjo. Over the duration of the course basic right hand technique for the frailing or clawhammer style of banjo should learned. The tutor is Ed Hicks.

   

• Baroque Dance

  Workshop

  1 Oct 2009 to 31 Dec 2009

  A dance class in baroque dance for beginners, intermediates and advanced.