Our next events
● Traditional Music Class - Gun & Spitroast, Horsmonden, 12th June
● Traditional Music Class - Gun & Spitroast, Horsmonden, 26th June, from 8pm
● Sessions at the Bell and Jorrocks restart in September
What is English traditional music?
England can easily match any other country for the richness and diversity of its traditional dances... So, if there's all this wonderful stuff lying around, why aren't we more aware of it as an everyday part of our national culture? Why aren't we all doing it, and valuing it, and treasuring it? ... it is, or was, mostly done, and valued, and treasured in the country... preserved most tenaciously by the least privileged layers of society... because even if there's little in the way of material wealth or worldly possessions, at least you know who you are... '
Leading box player, singer and dancer John Kirkpatrick explains here.
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Our 2012/13 season of sessions at the Bell & Jorrocks is now officially over – we’ll start again in September. The Horsmonden Traditional Music Classes will continue for a few more weeks. We have had to call off the First … Continue reading
Jeffries duet concertina maestro Michael Hebbert appears at Frittenden, 24th February 2013
We’re delighted to be able to welcome our friend Michael Hebbert as our featured visitor at the February session at Frittenden on the 24th February – we’ve been hoping to bring Michael here for quite a while. Here’s what he … Continue reading
A short piece for the Folk Educators Group
These photographs of the Horsmonden Traditional Music Class were taken by singer Annie Dearman on Saturday night (24th November). Our friend Kerry Fletcher of the English Folk Dance and Song Society’s folk educators group suggested I should write a few notes … Continue reading