Saturday 2nd February, 2.30pm at the Creche, Central
Library - Concertina class. £5 - £3
concessions
Following a very successful Come and Try event, a weekly concertina class, tutored by John Bagnall, begins
on Saturday 2nd February.
John Bagnall has been playing
the English Concertina, invented about 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, for
about 40 years.
John learned to play while
living on Tyneside, which as well as being a centre for traditional music is
home to some great concertina players, notably Alistair Anderson who has done
so much to popularise the instrument.
John has been to a large number
of Alistair's workshops over the years and learned from his teaching methods,
centred round traditional tunes.
He likes to play many
different types of music on the concertina, including Northumbrian and Scottish
tunes, American, French, Breton and Irish tunes, and also aspires to the more
complex classical or semi-classical music from the concertina's heyday in
Victorian Britain. Playing with other musicians is a special pleasure, and John
plays regularly in pub sessions on Tayside.