Free Music Workshops Hosted and Sponsored By Millers Music Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June

Saturday 13th June

Harmonica Workshop with Steve Lockwood - 11am to 12 noon (Beginners and Intermediate)

Harmonica Workshop with Steve Lockwood, 11am - 12noon (beginners & intermediate) Harmonica phenomenon Steve Lockwood has joined forces with Millers Music, Cambridge to put on a workshop for harmonica players of all abilities including complete beginners. Steve isn't just a musician with a worldwide reputation, who has played with acts from Larry Adler, Chris Difford (Squeeze) and Screaming Lord Sutch to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and recorded over 70 albums, he's also got a degree in harmonica playing from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and is a fully qualified teacher and lecturer with a PGCE.
The workshop is suitable for all levels of player including complete beginners and will help any harmonica player to start playing or improve their blues and pop and get the best out of this deceptively humble instrument. Steve's workshop is a rare opportunity for beginners, improvers and more competent players to gain instruction from a professional musician with 30 years of live performing forming the foundation of his teaching. Technical instruction is combined with hints and tips to make playing more musical and more fun. Website: http://www.steve.ms/

Banjo Workshop with Robin Gillan, 1pm – 2pm (For Guitarists Wanting to Learn Banjo)

Robin Gillan has been active on the folk scene for over two decades and is now beginning to gain wider recognition. His music reflects timeless old field recordings of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s and early commercial country recordings from the 1920’s. Described as a polymath musician, Robin delivers songs with power and sensitivity. Robin is adept at 5 string banjo, fiddle, harmonica, guitar and melodeon. Robin draws from the music of the British Isles and the USA. His playing has rawness, balanced by technical ability, producing an archaic sound rarely achieved in the 21st century.
Robin has produced one solo album and recorded with numerous bands and artists, recently working with folk legend, Tom Paley. He has been booked at many festivals and folk clubs over the years, and recently performed at the Cambridge Folk Festival. He also runs the Black Fen Folk Club in Cambridge. Robin has won several awards for his fiddle and banjo playing and has drawn the attention of such diverse musical figures as Reg Hall, Bruce Molsky, Yehudhi Menuhin and Noel Gallagher. http://www.robingillan.com

Fiddle Workshop with Matt Kelly, 3pm – 4pm (Beginners and Intermediate)

Matt plays fiddle, viola and mandolin. He is half of Kelly & Woolley, a cajun/folk duo, with guitarist, singer and songwriter Gary Woolley. Their first CD ‘Papers in my Shoe’ is due out in 2015. He is currently also playing in ‘Thursday’s Band’, with Mark Gamon, Lucinda Fudge and Nick Blishen. Their 5 track EP ‘Where the Breakers Roll’ came out in April 2015.
Matt played in postpunk group ‘Strumpet City’ in Brighton in the mid-eighties, and with ‘The Lizards’, a cajun and blues band in South London in the late 80s. He played in ‘Ti-fer Cajun Band’ in the 1990s. He has recorded on various albums, including The Lizards Promised Land, Tony Hill Inexactness (heavy rock) and Mary Lou Lord Baby Blue (Americana). In his spare time, Matt plays classical music, teaches English and is a trade union and political activist.
"In the workshop, we will play tunes in a variety of folk styles, including Cajun, Appalachian and Old-Time, and look at improvising double stopping and accompaniments." https://www.facebook.com/kellyandwoolley

Sunday 14th June

Mandolin Workshop with Daniel Nestlerode 12noon – 1pm (For Guitarists Wanting to Learn Mandolin)

Born in Pennsylvania, seasoned in California, Daniel Nestlerode is now based in Cambridge. His engaging manner, wonderful voice, and skill on the mandolin make him a favourite guest from Cornwall to East Anglia. His CD “More Than a Little Guitar” has been played on radio stations from California to Caledonia.
During his early days in central Pennsylvania Daniel picked up the guitar, started writing music, and played in some local bands. Local success inspired Daniel to move to California in pursuit of a career in music. Inspired by his acquaintance with mandolinist/percussionist/raconteur, Joe Craven, Daniel began playing mandolin. He was hooked from the first moment, and in a few years made the mandolin his primary instrument.
You can catch Daniel in some of the UK's best folk clubs playing original songs, a variety of traditional folk songs, and more modern covers. http://www.nestlerode.co.uk/

Ukulele Workshop with Pascha Milner 1.30pm – 3pm (Beginners and Intermediate)

Pascha Milner runs the very busy Gig-A-Bull music studio in Cambridge, where he teaches Ukulele, Guitar, and Bass Guitar. He was awarded a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Music from Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge in 1993 where his principle instruments were Electric Guitar and Bass. Pascha was tutored in Guitar and Bass during his Music Degree at University in Cambridge by Chris Wong (Toya Wilcox Band) and majored in Jazz under Charlie Beale (Author of the A.B.R.S.M Jazz Piano Syllabus).
He has taught for over twenty years. Pascha is the Guitar Coordinator at Oundle School where he has organised the Guitar Madness and Unplugged Concerts, Rock School Exams and Hepburn Instrumental Competitions for over twelve years. He teaches over sixty instrumental lessons a week and works with the region’s top professionals. Many of his past pupils are now professional performers or instrumental teachers themselves. http://gigabull.co.uk/

AT ALL WORKSHOPS:

Just turn up, no need to book
If attendees would like to they can make a contribution to the workshop!
Free handouts
Instruments available at Millers
All ages welcome!
Millers Music Centre & Ken Stevens Music & Instruments
12 Sussex Street
Cambridge
CB1 1PW
Tel: 01223 354452,
Website: www.millersmusic.co.uk

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