After a successful event last year, and a very successful “twin” event in Edinburgh earlier this year, the date of the 2nd Aberdeen “FluteFling” is the weekend surrounding Sat.17th November 2018.<\/p>\n
There will be one major difference this year in that – as we did in Edinburgh – we will be inviting whistle players [“soprano” and “low”] to join with the flute players for classes and sessions.<\/p>\n
The programme for the weekend will be similar to last year :<\/p>\n
Friday evening [ 16th ] – “welcome session” – very informal.<\/p>\n
Saturday 17th – we will divide students into 3 classes – 2 flute [ “beginner” and “intermediate” ] and 1 class for both types of whistle.<\/p>\n
The 3 classes will receive tuition from all 3 of our tutors over the course of the day.<\/p>\n
The tutors this year will be Gordon Turnbull [ “simple-system” flute ] and Sharon Creasey [ “Boehm-system” ], and we are especially pleased to have obtained the services of Dougie Pincock as guest tutor \/ speaker.<\/p>\n
Dougie\u2019s main instrument is the Highland bagpipes, but he is an excellent player of flute and whistle, and for 7 years was a member of the “Battlefield Band”. He has been the director of the “School for Excellence in Traditional Music”, based in Plockton on the west coast of Scotland since 2000.<\/p>\n
Saturday evening – session, with perhaps a few brief “performance” spots from the tutors.<\/p>\n
Sunday – lunchtime \/ afternoon – “Farewell session”.<\/p>\n
Costs are the same as for last year : Full price \u00a350 – concession price \u00a340.<\/p>\n
I will add the link for signing up when it has been created, which will be quite soon.<\/p>\n
If anyone has any queries in advance, please ask and I will do my best to reply.<\/p>\n
Hope to meet some of you there, Kenny Hadden<\/p>\n