The Salmon Bothy Music Programme - Festival 2010
The Salmon Bothy is gradually establishing itself as a significant venue in the North East. This is reflected not only in the increasing stream of visitors to the Museum and clients to the Family History Facility but also in the number and variety of events ‘Upstairs at the Bothy’. The latter include not only an ever-expanding range of groups and clubs but also concerts, book launches, exhibitions, corporate events, weddings and the increasingly popular Bothy Talks. Details of the busy programme are available on the website that also has links to the Bothy’s various social networking places. http://www.salmonbothy.org.uk
Traditional Music Workshops offered at the Salmon Bothy during the Festival are funded by Banff and Buchan Arts Forum. The details for the Bothy Music Programme during the Festival are given below. Workshops are free of charge with admission to the Festival but it is advisable to book a place to avoid disappointment on the day. Email:contact@salmonbothy.org.uk or telephone: 01261 842 951 to book.
Friday 25th June
3pm - 4pm - Shanty Jack
Ships, Songs and Sailors of the East Coast of Great Britain.
“A journey from the Thames to Scotland illustrated with slides and songs”
As an island nation, Great Britain has a tremendous history and variety of shipping and shipping trades. This presentation is an attempt to look at some of the ships and men that formed part of this heritage and some of the songs that they sang or which have been written about them.
Plenty of choruses to join in!
Saturday 26th June
11am - 12 noon - Ben Paley and Tom Spiers
Fiddle Workshop
Suitable for those with a basic understanding of fiddle playing, this workshop aims to develop your skills in fiddle accompaniment with local fiddler Tom Spiers from the highly acclaimed Shepheard Spiers and Watson who specialise in Traditional Scottish folk music and story telling, and Ben Paley seen as expert in his field of Swedish Folk Music with influences from his upbringing in North Carolina, USA.
12.15pm - 1.15pm - Bob Knight
Songwriting workshop. Bob will talk about how he approaches songwriting - passing on tips, giving hand-outs regarding song construction and components of the song as well as performing some songs of his own.
1.30pm - 3.00pm - Sara Grey with Shepheard, Spiers & Watson
Tracing The Migration Of Songs Between Scotland & Ireland And North America Sara will trace the migration of songs from Northern Ireland and Scotland to North America by singing a song, or part of it, from its Celtic source and then singing the American or Canadian version showing the changes and the similarities. Sara likes to make the workshop as interactive and informal as possible by encouraging the participants to sing on choruses and refrains, and ask any relevant questions.
3.15pm - 4.15pm - Gaye Anthony, Trish Norman and Shanty Jack accompanied by Nanne Kalma and Ankie Van Der Meer from Friesland
The Silver of the Sea - interactive musical theatre performance. This group bring alive tales of the fishing industry with traditional songs and music performed in full costume of the fisher folk in days gone by. They bring together traditions of the NE Scotland and the shared culture of the North Sea with accompaniment by Nanne and Ankie.
4.30pm - 5.30pm - Four n' Aft
What is a Shanty? Discussion on the different types of shanty, their roles in the working life of a ship, the points in the voyage where they would be sung - with musical illustrations
1.00pm - 1.45pm (Downstairs) - Stewart Duff
Bodhrun Workshop - come along and have a go - bring your own or borrow a bodhrun
2.15pm - 3.15pm (Downstairs) - Danny Spooner
The River the Sea and me. In recent years Danny has sung at festivals, clubs and house concerts in the UK, Canada and the USA. But for 40 years in Australia audiences have enjoyed his concerts, workshops and one-man shows, his deep multi-disciplinary understanding of social history, his personal warmth, and his immense repertoire of songs covering the full range of human emotions, endeavours and experiences.
Sunday 27th June
12.00 noon - 1.00pm - Danny Spooner
Caledonia Australis "The Scots in Australia"
1.05pm - 1.35pm - Cedric Bell
Illustrated talk: “ Portsoy and Cullen’s Roman Heritage”
1.45pm - 2.45pm - "The Silver of the Sea" (see above for details)
3.00pm - 4.30pm - Sara Grey
Interpretation of Ballads & Songs - Choice of Song, Phrasing, Dynamics, etc This workshop will be very interactive and hands-on, so people are asked to come along with one or two songs or ballads that may have given them trouble over the years, and we will work through them so that the participant can approach the songs in a different way. We'll be discussing and working on ways of "bringing these songs and ballads to life"... It doesn't require a fabulous voice ...it requires "getting inside and understanding what you're singing, and working on ways to interpret the story”.
11.00am - 12.00 noon - Stewart Duff (Downstairs)
Beginners Bodhrun Workshop
12.30pm - 1.30pm - Shanty Jack (Downstairs)
Shanty singing workshop
3.00pm - 4.00pm - Shanty Jack (Downstairs)
How to play the bones
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