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Music Classes

Autoharp classes -email helenslade@btinternet.com.

Beginners Ukulele course at Music Centre CIC, Newport High Street. Thursdays 11 January to 21 March 2024, 7-9pm. £75 for 10 lessons.  Verity @ wightukers@yahoo.com

JC Grimshaw runs ukulele classes for Quay Arts Centre, Newport. Tel. 01983 822490. 

Luc Valvona teaches ukulele at Monkton Arts,  Tuesdays 15.45 to 17.30. £10. Text 07947  776159

African Djembe Drumming Classes – rua14all@yahoo.com 07964 765288

Mike’s Beginners’ Guitar Club, Bar 74, Union Street,  Ryde.   musiccraft.iow@gmail.com or 02714 526879

Julian Gabriel Clarke offers tuition in guitar, ukulele, bass and vocal coaching. All ages, beginners, special needs. 07832337167

Music Craft All-age  Community Hub, 98 High Street,  Newport,  offers a variety of instrumental and vocal tuition. Website: musiccraft.biz

Starling Songwriters offer songwriting workshops and instrument tuition. www.starlingsongwriters.co.uk tel. 07432739733

Stefanos Andreas -piano tutor, music producer and drum workshop practitioner. Offers piano tuition in or elsewhere, also drum workshops. Isle of Wight (Totland Bay Area) http://www.mellowdrumattic.com

Services

Accordion, melodeon and concertina repairs: Jolly Roger Accordions, near Andover Hants (as seen on The Repair Shop). Also sells used accordions, melodeons and restored concertinas. http://www.jollyrogeraccordions.co.uk

Guitar repairs  Renovation and repairs. Wight Guitars, tel. Bill on 0750 2609 607

Melodeon and Concertina Repair  Pete Grassby, regular Island visitor, supplies and restores vintage Hohner melodeons and accordions. Key changes and tone adjustment. 077-68683015 or 024-76336740  pdgrassby52@gmail.com

isleofwightfolkarchive.co.uk Words, sheet music and recordings of a large number of Isle of Wight songs, also information about legends etc.

www.efdss.org  The English Folk Dance and Song Society   https://www.vwml.org/  Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and Roud song index

www.mustrad.org.uk   Information on musical traditions and customs

http:// folkcloud.com Archive of folk music, international.

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~cresby/map2.htm  Folk Map covers the area west of a line from West Yorkshire down to the Isle of Wight . It shows folk club venues and has links to useful websites plus other listing sites.

www.fash.org.uk  The Folk Association of South Hants, for when you fancy a quick trip across the water.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/swf/folkmenu.html The BBC’s Virtual Session.  Popular session tunes for you to play along plus the music to print out.

www.tradsong.org  Traditional Song Forum. Free to join group for anyone interested in traditional song.

folktunefinder.com Find that tune that is bugging you!

 https://folkopedia.info/  Folkopedia describes itself as a peer-reviewed wiki dedicated to the folk arts. 

Books

Songs of the Sea from the Isle of Wight – by Mike Butler, Anwyl Williams, Dave Williams, available from Medina Bookshop, 50 High St. Cowes. Tel. 01983 300044 mail: info@ medinabookshop.com

Shanties & Sea songs  Books, CDs. and information on shanties and maritime songs. Ken Lardner at The Chantey Cabin. 01772634737/07803052448 ken@chanteycabin.co.uk

I’m Not Blessed Well Jokin’! – An oral history of Bembridge by Alan Robert Phillips. Based on interviews with local ‘characters’ in the 1970s, recalling stories and memories from late 1800s onwards. £12. Available from  Bembridge-  Welcome Stores, Lane End; and  Spinnaker Chandlery, Embankment Road. Waterstones, Newport;  Medina Bookshop, Cowes;  Ryde Bookshop,  High Street;  Glyn Morgan’s, Shanklin.  £15   By Post