Kilve Residential Weekends

Each year West Country Concertina Players offer two residential weekends of concertina playing at Kilve Court, Kilve, West Somerset. The weekends are structured so that there are workshops for each system and this enables Members to concentrate on techniques to improve playing their own instrument and different styles of music.

In March WCCP hold their weekend for players of all systems of concertina, from intermediate to advanced playing standard. Invited tutors are at hand for taking the various workshops to include, playing technique, song accompaniment, band playing and concertina repair/maintenance.

A beginner’s weekend is held in October at Kilve Court, designed for absolute beginners through to players who have reached an intermediate level. Click here for a view of the Kilve October weekend by one of our beginners, Mike Stevens. The weekend workshops offer tuition for all systems of concertina, Anglo, Duet and English concertinas. WCCP have a limited number of concertinas available for beginners to use if required.

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Bar sessions are held on the Friday and Saturday evenings and a concert by the tutors is also given.

This is what some of this year’s participants have said about the two Kilve events:

“I went along to the workshop, not being able to read the bass clef or use my left hand at the same time as my right on the duet and by the end of the weekend I was able to do both!!”

“That was a super weekend again.”

“After the fabulous weekend spent at the October Kilve, I was inspired to work hard so that I would be able to participate in the March Kilve. All the hard work paid off and I was amazed at how well I got on in the Intermediate Band. It inspires me to work harder!”

“Tiring but great fun and I learned a lot”.

Commnents on Kilve March 2010 by some of the participants

Some photographs from Kilve March 2010

For dates of forthcoming residential weekends and booking form:
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