I like playing the recorder and the fiddle, but this much may be clear....

On Saturday 1st November Adrian and I are teaming up with our friend Kate Ross (Irish flute and whistle player) to run a day of instrumental workshops at my mum and dad's antiques shop, this may sound wierd but we have just changed some of it around so that we can have 3 classes going on simultaneously and then a space big enough for everyone to come together and form the Tune-Up Folk Orchestra to be followed by a performance of orchestra, Horses Brawl and Rampant Horse Collective (our bit on the side and nothing like the brawl), we will have to see how this goes, but so far we have 10 fiddle players, 5 guitars and 5 flute and whistles. There are alot of secret fiddle players in Norfolk and Suffolk.

My priority is to be prepared with the tunes and to make sure it all runs smoothly (!?) and also I am very keen to quickly carve out some pumpkins with pretty designs... this is extremely important and the whole day will be ruined if I don't : )

I like playing a bit of trad but I wish that there were some really good Norfolk fiddle tunes!!!!!!
Though my whole life may have been different if there were, we've had to be much cleverer with our sourcing and research because our local tradition is mostly song and I seem to like northumbrian 3/2's.

Anyhoo, shoogi says meeyaup so maybe it's time for some attention.

The other thing I love doing is a concert, especially when some lovely person writes on your guestbook a week later saying good things about the music. What a great job! What an unpredictable yet exciting job. What a shame to call it a job, there must be a better word.