Dive into the beautiful world of Dutch folk music! This music is relatively not well known. Fortunately, there is a wealth of sources with folk music from the Low Countries: manuscripts such as Souterlydekens (Utrecht 1540), “Oude en Nieuwe Hollantse Boerenlieties en Contredansen” (1700-1716), Beukema (Groningen, ca 1850) collected music that was already old at the time. used to be. The Meertens Institute also collects many old music sources. Beautiful music, folk songs waiting to be played… and that’s what we’re going to do!
We delve into some pieces from different periods, in order to also look at the similarities and differences in styles. We look at how we can make this old music sound beautiful on our ‘modern’ instruments and look for arrangements. A limited number of melodies are covered, so that we have plenty of time to go into depth.
More information and registration: Hurdy Gurdy & Bagpipe Foundation