January 21st - We will be preparing for our planned performance for World Concertina Day.
February 10th - 7.00pm - ICA are inviting people to attend an International Zoom meeting.
February 18th - For World Concertina Day. To celebrate WCD the Yorkshire Concertina Club will once again be putting on a short informal Concert this afternoon. This will take place in the downstairs bar of the venue where we have our regular monthly meetings upstairs. We will be playing a selection of our favourite arrangements in parts, led by our esteemed YCC Band-leader, Carolyn Wade, Please note - the bar is a members-only private venue, so we will not be able to host any non-member visitors. Besides celebrating WCD, the event provides us with an excellent opportunity to thank the venue, who kindly provide our meeting room. We are nonetheless anticipating a fun time and - maybe - even interest from one or two in taking up our beloved instrument!
March 17th
April 21st - Guest Nick Barber, of Whitby & Sidmouth Folk Festivals workshops fame (also plays Recorder, Melodeon & French Horn). Nick says:"Some Scandi tunes and their harmony parts. The Scandinavian tradition is to present tunes in two parts, with a melody line and a corresponding harmony part. In this workshop Nick will take a few tunes drawn from his "Nicks Nodebog" and after playing them together we will have a look at how the harmony parts came about, and have a ago at writing some parts of our own."
May 6th - 6.00pm- ICA AGM on Zoom, with live concert afterwards.
May 12th - This is the second Sunday rather than the third, to enable Club Members to participate in the Swaledale Squeeze the following weekend.
June 16th - Guest Alex Wade, well-known virtuoso player in the Folk world & many-times previous guest at YCC. As in past visits Alex will bring tunes for us to play & guide us through them.
July 21st
August - No Meeting.
September 15th - Joint annual meeting with North East Concertina Players. This year it is our turn to host. Carolyn Wade will be our Bandleader, assisted by Dave Turner from the NECP, as usual.
October 20th - Guest Dave Ball, Dave is a regular workshop leader at Swaledale and has been a YCC guest on numerous occasions. Dave suggests he could cover:
Bringing a tune to life from a forgotten manuscript. Are all the notes 'correct', are any missing, can I change the key, can I change some of the notes. What sort of a tune was it? Is that kind of tune still current or do we play them differently now? What dance steps was it written for??
Arranging tunes for two players - harmonies, drones and chords.