Ideas for Teaching Folk Music
A day for those wishing to teach folk music, particularly as part of the Folk Powys project.
Date: September 10th.
Venue: Dance Centre, Arlais Road, Llandrindod Wells LD1 5HE.
Tutors
Ceri Rhys Matthews
Plays flute, pipes, guitar and sings. He works in a duo with fiddler christine cooper, and in the band he co-founded, fernhill.
He has released a cd of flute music and spoken word, called yscolan.
He has initiated and teaches music at two connected long term self-funding projects - pibau pencader / prosiect ioan rhagfyr dolgellau - and has established a series of residential music retreats at Pentre Ifan in west Wales, also called yscolan. He teaches part time at the folk and traditional music bmus honours degree course at Newcastle University.
As an independent record producer he has produced nearly twenty five cds for fflach:tradd, world music network, beautiful jo records, and smithsonian folkways.
Each of us who are interested in music making, particularly un-schooled, local music making, have a little bag full of our stories, our musical tools and tricks and tunes and tastes and smells and fruits and tears and triumphs. Everything we ever played or cared about is in that bag and a great more besides. Over the years I have known Ceri I have caught him rummaging around in that bag and stood amazed as time after time he has produced, without any ceremony, some of the rarest treasure I have ever seen or heard.
Chris Wood - {english acoustic collective}
Kitty Greenwood
Kitty is a versatile and experienced teacher of both classical and folk music. She has been an inspiration to students of all ages, from the small babies who attended her pre-school music sessions to grandparents - now rediscovering a love of music-making in their retirement.
For five years she ran the Childrens' Traditional Music Band in Newtown (several former members are now playing professionally on the folk circuit) and Ffonic was born directly from this project. Parents of the young musicians saw how much fun they were having and asked Kitty to form a new band for the grown-ups!
Kitty has studied fiddle with many top performers in the folk world, including Chris Wood and Martin Hayes. She has a degree in music from the University of Leeds and a performance diploma from the London College. She has taught fiddle at Sidmouth International Festival and at TASC events locally. She has played with numerous dance bands including 'Kitty and the Tomcats' and currently performs with the Klezmonauts and HiJinx.
