Learn to play the Penny Whistle
Get your own penny whistle when you learn to play simple folk tunes by ear with Luke Daniels at Desmoulin Gallery on Fringe Sunday.
Get your own penny whistle when you learn to play simple folk tunes by ear with Luke Daniels at Desmoulin Gallery on Fringe Sunday.
The Newbury Fringe Festival 2006 has been funded by:
Never made music and wondered what it would be like? Come along and try your hand - for free, at Desmoulin Gallery from 11am - 4pm. Families and individuals from 7 years old to 70 are very welcome.
As well as learning to play simple folk tunes by ear on pennywhistles provided on the day you will be helped and encouraged to make up your own tunes and contribute to what Luke sees as an ever evolving folk music tradition.
Luke Daniels is a well known and highly respected folk musician with previous experience of outreach and educational work, including the Folkworks National Summer School and for the Newcastle University folk music degree course. In 2003 he set up the first folk music academy in the South East dedicated to young traditional musicians with funding from the National Foundation for Youth Music.
This penny whistle workshop is brought to you by Berkshire Maestros and Desmoulin Gallery, and funded by Greenham Common Trust.
Keen to make more music? Then why not also try the Gamelan workshops with Nikhil Daily Victoria Park!
