Mary Humphreys and Anahata

This is at what promises to be a delightful location in Shropshire - see Gleanings Rural Study Centre for more details and booking information.

This will be an expanded version of our very successful Saturday workshop at Lewes last year, covering tunes from the Cambridgeshire Fens and surrounding areas, and some arranging with harmony parts.

It is aimed at players of melody instruments such as melodeons, concertinas, fiddles, whistles, flutes and other woodwind etc. We'll keep to melodeon-friendly keys of G and D. There will be music but you don't have to be a reader. If you play a transposing instrument like a clarinet or brass and you want to use music you'll have to be able to read at concert pitch (but contact us if you want to come and this would be a problem)

We plan to cover at least some of these topics:

• The original collected molly dances tunes from Cambridgeshire
• Tunes from the unpublished manuscript of William Clarke of Feltwell, Norfolk
• Other East Anglian Tunes (Norfolk and Suffolk)
• Tunes from John Clare's notebooks (Peterborough)
• The evolving tradition - some newer tunes adapted or composed for current Molly Dance teams in the Fens.
• Playing harmony parts (with so many musicians around, it's a great opportunity)
• Playing for dancing
• Informal evening sessions where you can sing, dance or play anything you like.