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| 29 Sep 2006: |
Concertina in TV ads shock! |
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| There are a few adverts on the telly at the moment featuring a young girl playing a concertina. The ads are for Phones4µ, and the fabulous soundtrack - almost seconds of it - is played by yours truly. So far I've seen two with snatches of "Auld Lang Syne" and "The Somerset Wassail ". More to come............. |
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| 22 Sep 2006: |
Equinox Fayre Cancelled |
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| The weekend on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, that was to have taken place September 22nd - 24th at Colliford Lake Park, has been cancelled two days before it was due to start. The reason given was the excessively strong winds that were expected on the site. A full and varied programme of concert acts and other events, including an appearance on the Friday evening by oneself, has simply been scrapped. Bit of a shame - it sounded an interesting and unusual festival. |
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| 19 Sep 2006: |
ANNOUNCING THE J.K. TUNEBOOK! |
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The John Kirkpatrick Tune-book is now in preparation, with a view to being released early summer next year. Mick Lynn, of Quarry House Publishing, who produced the song-book "What Do You Do In The Day?" in 2000, is doing all the hard work, with well over a hundred tunes to cram in. By the time it comes out there might be more!
The tune book "Opus Pocus", produced by Dragonfly Music in 1988, did include some JK compositions, along with some other tunes from current repertory, but it has been out of print for many years. Some of the traditional tunes in that book re-appeared in Mally's publication "JK's English Choice".
More news here as we get nearer to the time...................... |
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| 12 Sep 2006: |
"HOW TO PLAY THE ENGLISH MELODEON" NOW OUT ON DVD! |
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The series of video tutors that I did for Mrs Casey Music a few years ago has now been re-released as a two DVD set. The full programme from all three films has been split equally between the two discs, with the same running order of over forty sections. The new format allows for precisely timed sub-sections and a timed title as each new tune appears. Even a hardened Luddite like me can see that the DVD is a million times more useful to work with than the old-fashioned eternal spooling back and forth.
I now have copies of the DVD to sell at gigs, or you can get the details about mail order from Mrs Casey via the merchandising pages on this website. Here at the Squeezer offices we just have two copies of volume three of the video still for sale. When they've gone you'll have to see if Mrs Casey have still got any. I don't expect they'll around for long.
"How to play the English Melodeon" - The DVD - MCRDVD6002. |
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