Downeast Friends of the Folk Arts
Music and Dance for the Maine community
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Scandi Tune Workshop
January 20 , 11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Scandi tune workshop with lydia ievins at Mayo St Arts in Portland!
Saturday 1/20/24, 11a to 1:30p with a break for BYO lunch and optional potluck
Come learn a couple of Scandinavian tunes, with an emphasis on making your playing danceable. Teaching will be fiddle-centric — all other melody instruments are welcome (nyckelharpa? cello? harp? accordion? flute? mandolin?), we’ll just ask you to pretend you’re a fiddle for the day, and you’ll get to interpret the concepts for your own instrument. Learn about bowings, ornaments, maybe some approaches to playing harmony lines. Tunes will be taught by ear. The cost is $30 per person.
More about lydia:
lydia plays nyckelharpa and five-string fiddle for Scandinavian and English Country dancing. Her absolute favorite thing about playing in either genre is the opportunity to improvise rich harmonic lines. As an avid dancer herself, she infuses her playing with rhythmic clarity and sensitive phrasing to make it irresistibly danceable. Deeply immersed in exploring Swedish fiddling traditions, lydia is the only fiddler in the US who has earned both a bronze Zorn medal and a “diplom efter brons” in Sweden, for her fiddling in the Uppland tradition.