South Staffs Branch Playing Day with Sandra Foxall

Sat 03Oct2026

We are looking forward to a whole day of playing with Sandra. Visitors are very welcome.

The Haling Dene Centre, Cannock Road, Penkridge, ST19 5DT

10:00 - 16:30

£15

Doors open 9:30am ready for playing sessions 10am – 4:30pm with breaks.
Tea/coffee etc included.
Please bring your own packed lunch and a music stand.
Please contact Caroline Moore to book your place
and for details of how to pay.
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August 2026

Sat 15 - Sat 22Aug2026

A course designed for players of recorders, viols and other early instruments, covering a wide repertoire from ancient to modern. .

An Grianán Adult Education College, Termonfechin, Co. Louth, Ireland

Sessions include one-to-a-part groups, workshops, consort songs, trio sonatas, choir, large and small ensembles.

Tutors: Philip Thorby, Ibi Aziz, Caoimhe de Paor, Pamela Flanagan, Peter Wendland.

Contact: www.irishrecorderandviolcourse.org

www.irishrecorderandviolcourse.org

Mon 17 - Fri 21Aug2026

HISS is a unique midweek course in beautiful surroundings near Beverley that brings together musicians from the worlds of medieval, renaissance, baroque and folk music.

Bishop Burton College

York Road, Bishop Burton, Beverley, East Yorkshire, HU17 8QG

14:00 - 16:00

Residential £645. Non residential £485. Non participant £475.

HISS offers you the opportunity to create your own perfect course from a wide range of options. For the first session of the day recorder players can choose a class with one of three tutors - Mary Tyers, Rebecca Austen-Brown or Tim Bayley. During the day there are a wide variety of other sessions where you can stick to the recorder or play a different instrument, and then there are the evening folk sessions in the bar!
You will find a warm welcome at HISS whatever your level. Players should be over 18 (or accompanied). Playing pitch is 440 to allow us to play together.

Booking closes July 12th

Contact: / 07942 264305

hiss.org.uk

Fri 28 - Sun 30Aug2026

A weekend of recorder playing with Pam Smith, Moira Usher, Sarah Whomersley, Anabel Knight, Kate Allsop and Julie Dean.

Dean Close School

Shelburne Rd Cheltenham

03:30 - 04:00

£345 residential

There are 13 sessions over the weekend and apart from the tutti sessions you can pick and choose the ones you like. For the first time there will be some yoga sessions.

Contact: / 01752417093

Recorders For All

Fri 28 - Sun 30Aug2026

A full weekend of making music with ensembles, tutorials and large group playing. St. Andrews is a truly spectacular setting and the warmest of Scottish welcomes awaits you.

St. Andrews, Agnes Blackadder, St. Andrews University

17:00 - 16:00

£365

The Scottish Recorder Course was formed under the direction of Brian Bonsor, in 1980 and attracts players of all recorders from sopranino to contra bass.

The course offers a wide variety of ensemble playing at intermediate and advanced levels. Tutorial groups consist of players of similar standards with some instruction in playing technique.

The social aspect of the course is important and there is plenty opportunity to meet like minded people and make new friends. Time is allowed to explore the beautiful, historic town of St. Andrews. Or you can join the hardy group who brave the North Sea for a quick dip!

Contact:

The Scottish Recorder Course

September 2026

Thu 03Sep2026

Music from the 16th, 17th & 18th century inspired by Awe and Wonder. Presented by the multi-grant-winning early music ensemble Sounds Historical.

North of England Centre for Music,

Waters Road, Marsden, Huddersfield, HD7 6NQ

19:00

Through evocative music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Sounds Historical explore the wonderful and awe-inspiring aspects of life which are just as resonant today as they were for our ancestors – from mythology to mathematics, astrology to astronomy, and love, both romantic and religious.

Sounds Historical are a specialist early music ensemble who perform on an exciting array of beautifully crafted copies of period instruments. Heidi Fardell (recorders, flutes & percussion), Alison Kinder (viols & recorders), Lynda Sayce (lutes, theorbo, recorders & flutes) and Mary Tyers (recorders, flutes & voice) love to chat to their audiences, introducing the music and their instruments as the programme unfolds. In their latest programme, the recorder is the star of the show – with appearances from Renaissance models, G altos, Transitionals and Voice Flutes, as well as the ‘standard’ Baroque recorder that we all know and love.

Featuring rarely heard pieces composed by the famous astronomers Galileo and William Herschel and the rigorously crafted yet emotionally charged work of J. S. Bach and Henry Purcell, join Sounds Historical as they travel to the underworld with Charpentier and celebrate mythology with Telemann. Meet a rare instrument – the Orpharion, and hear about ‘Chester’s Monstrous Fish’. Even the inimical British weather has its place in this programme!

Do come and join us as we celebrate Our Wonderful World!

Supported by Continuo Foundation