During these sessions, we have a chance to chat, and also to play music with one person leading and the others joining in (but only hearing themselves and the leader). Generally on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month.
Session 16: Thursday, 17th September – 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Session 17: Thursday, 8th October – 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Session 18: Thursday, 22th October – 3:00 – 5:00 pm
The Sandbridge Hammered Dulcimer retreat is an annual event with 3 weeks of workshops in the Autumn and 1 in the Spring. You can book for one or more weeks.
The tutor is well known performer and teacher Ken Kolodner, assisted by MaryLynn Van Deventer. This year the Autumn event will be held via zoom, giving UK and European members a chance to attend.
A regular zoom Nonsuch music session twice a month on 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 3-5pm.
Meet Northern Nonsuch members plus others from farther afield to play and socialise. Forthcoming dates:
Tuesday, 22th Sept, 2020 3-5 pm, run by Chris Fitt
Tuesday, 13th Oct, 2020 3-5 pm, run by Chris Fitt
Tuesday, 22nd Oct, 2020 3-5 pm, run by Chris Fitt
Headliners – Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer, and Neal Hellman, mountain dulcimer.
Six FREE jams, 18 ticketed workshops, Concert and special Focus Workshops. Workshops include hammered and mountain dulcimer, ukulele, guitar chord theory, bodhran, tin whistle, and a singalong, all on ZOOM.
The South Western Meets at the Nova Scotia, Bristol have gone Virtual! These are now open to all and are designed to be especially mountain dulcimer friendly. Other instruments are also welcome.
Forthcoming Sessions:
Sunday 27th September 2020 from 2 – 4pm
A one day online (stay at home) festival including webcam mountain and hammered dulcimer workshops throughout the day and a prerecorded evening concert by our teaching staff.
Mountain Dulcimer: Lance Frodsham, Butch Ross, Irma Reeder. Hammered Dulcimer: Joshua Messick, Katie Moritz, Karen Alley, Scott Reeder.
Nonsuch Annual Weekend is going ONLINE!! Save the Date!
Booked tutors are:
Don Pedi (USA) and Geoff Reeve-Black & Duncan Gibbs (UK) – Mountain Dulcimer
Mark Alan Wade (USA) and Katie Moritz (USA) – Hammered Dulcimer
Full details and a booking form will be added to this site soon.