7th Stamford Harp Festival
26th-28th August 2005
Programme of Events
All events held at the Stamford Endowed School unless stated otherwise.
Download the booking form in MS Word format
You can download the programme listing from the printed flyer (157kb pdf).
Concerts and events
Workshops
Other info
Concerts and events
Concert at Browne's Hospitalle
Friday 26th August, 8.00pm
£8.00
Merit Zloch, Fiona-Katie Roberts, Sylvia Reiss and dancer in the setting of this 16th century almshouse.
Rudiger Oppermann in Concert
Saturday 27th August, 7.30pm, Browne's Hospitalle
£8.00
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Rüdiger
Oppermann began playing the Celtic Harp in 1973 and has played hundreds of concerts on
harps of all sizes and shapes with his unique, improvisational free-style. He
is President and Founder of the
Folk-Harp-Society in Germany. Through extensive travels in Africa, Ceylon, India, Indonesia,
Afghanistan and Turkey he learned local instruments and
acquired an understanding of diverse and contrasting “worlds of music”. Instruments he plays in concert include ethnic harps
from Africa and two Celtic harps he designed and
built himself: the smaller is nylon-strung, the larger wire-strung with a unique
mechanism for bending notes. His transformation from Celtic bard to cross-over
world-musician is well documented on 44 CD publications.
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Bill Taylor is a player and teacher with a particular interest in the history of the harp and its music. He is part of the team at Ardival Harps; Convener of the Wire-Strung Branch of the Clarsach Society; and President of the International Historical Harp Society. He will play a set of historical Scottish pieces on wire-strung clarsach, including a set of Lowland "canaries", ancient Highland ports and tunes from the book of a Dundee merchant in the 17th century. |
The Afternoon BBQ at Northborough
Sunday 28th August, 4.00-6.30pm
£5
A garden party with impromptu playing!
The Northborough Church Concert
Sunday 28th August, 7.00pm
£7
Diego Laverde Rochas, Sylvia Reiss and supporting artists.
Workshops
For the first time we're offering sessions on Friday. All workshops cost £10 unless specified otherwise.
Friday 26th August
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2.30-4.00 - Historical Scottish Harp Bill Taylor (all levels) Several different kinds of harps have been played for over 1000 years in Scotland, and all sizes of harps are welcome, as are both gut-strung and wire-strung harps. We’ll look at plainsong melodies from the early Celtic church, evocative Renaissance airs and Highland dance tunes from early sources.
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4.00-5.30 - English
Traditional Harp Music Traditional folk tunes for small harp with a professional teacher from London.
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Saturday 27th August
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9.30-1.30 - Harp
class for everyone - pedal/lever harp
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9.30-11.30 - Improvisation on the Celtic harp Including easy pieces from Africa and Asia, Blues, medieval and Irish patterns and rhythmical exercises.
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11.30-1.00 - Austrian tune for harp
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11.30-1.00 - A German
tune for harp
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11.30-12.30 - “Is
the harp for you?” Get your hands on a harp and play a simple tune. |
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2.00-3.30 - Breton
dance music for harps Sylvia has been playing and teaching the celtic harp for more than 15 years in Germany, Switzerland and Spain. Music from Brittany is like the landscape, a little bit foggy and mysterious to play, silent music which is mysterious too, and merry dancing music to have fun and to play at a "ball-folk". Participants should have been playing for at least a year.
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2.00-3.30 - A
simple Colombian tune
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3.30-5.00
- Introduction to any harp
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3.30-5.00
- Historical Scottish Harp We’ll examine different tunes -- beautiful airs, mysterious ports and lively dances -- from the Straloch manuscript (c.1627) as well as vocal airs from the Patrick MacDonald collection (c. 1784). All sizes of harps are welcome, including both gut-strung and wire-strung harps.
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5.00-6.30 - Choir
of Harps
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Sunday 28th August
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9.30-11.00 - Sephardic/Chinese Harp Music
Bjorn Laub (all levels) Bjorn is back, coming from Germany to inspire you.
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9.30-11.00 - Harp and
Dance
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12.00-1.30 - Popular
Latin tunes for harp
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12.00-1.30 - The Story of the Golden Lyre of Ur A talk on the two-year effort to make an authentic reconstruction of a 5000 year old instrument.
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Other info
Exhibition Hall
Harp-makers are putting on a wider display this year - an excellent opportunity to check out the different shapes and sizes available (the harps, not the makers!). Exhibitors include Bjorn Laub, Jonathon Letcher, Clive Morley, Pilgrim Harps, Salvi and Ian Urch.
"Harp-Boot Sale" - bring any of your old musical bits for us to sell… and turn a profit!
Hangout lounge area all Saturday for gettogethers / swopping / playing.
Accommodation
Rooms are available at Stamford Endowed School. Famous for its breakfasts and 5 Star sixth form accommodation block, it will only cost you £28 a night B&B.
Camping is available this year, off site. For further information please email.
Stamford is a great undiscovered gem of a Georgian town and your wider family is welcome to join in for a great summer weekend break here with you. Burghley House is on the doorstep.
Getting to Stamford
By car: 70 miles up the A1 from London.
Trains: GNER 48 minutes to Peterborough from Kings Cross (cheaper WAGN). Stansted Airport: hourly trains to Peterborough (many through to Stamford) 1 hour.
Thanks
The 7th Stamford International Harp Festival is helped and supported by: SIHF Committee, Salvi Harps, Pilgrim Harps, Jonathon Letcher Harps, Lincolnshire County Council, Stamford Town Council, The Clarsach Society Transpennine Branch, Peterborough City Council, P. Radford. All fine supporters, we thank you!
To Book
Booking form available shortly. In the meantime contact:
Andy Lowings
15 Church Street
Northborough
Peterborough
PE6 9BN
telephone +44(0)1733-253068
email stamfordharpfestival@hotmail.com
