Details of the Workshop
The Ian Clews Memorial Choral Folk Workshop is a 3 day event focussing on folk music. The first two days - Saturday and Sunday are run at the Manor House School in Ashby de la Zouch. This is for intensive work on the main work and other pieces for the concert. These will be full days from 11am to 5pm and lunch will be provided. On the 13th, the next Saturday there will be a workshop session of the works at the performance venue - Holy Trinity Church, followed by a full run-through of the performance with the professional musicians in the afternoon. The perfomance in the evening will commence at 7:30pm
Also on the concert day there will be an Auto Harp workshop for children at the Manor House School. These children will also perform in the concert in the evening.
In advance of the workshop, participants will be sent sheet music (to keep), access to the Members' area on this site - which has links to audio files for practice and performance notes (rehearsal CDs can be provided if required), and a ticket to the concert for one guest.
The music is challenging with some unusual rythmic and harmonic elements and some preliminary home working, utilising the practice audio files on the site, is recommended.
Malcolm Dalglish
Malcolm Dalglish is a hammer dulcimer player and composer whose work draws on his diverse background in choir, theatre and folk music. A choirboy in the 1960s with The American Boychoir, Malcolm later attended Oberlin College, where he joined a resident theatre company and worked with Bill Irwin and Julie Taymore. While a music education student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, he designed and built over sixty hammer dulcimers. Mr Dalglish was a founding member of the popular folk trio Metamora and has nine albums out, including solo offerings onthe Windham Hill label. The American Boychoir, The St. Olaf Choir, The Indianapolis Children's Choir and other choirs throughout the land have commissioned his folk inspired music. In 1997 he formed The Ooolites, an engaging young group of folk singers. Their second CD, Hymnody of Earth, is a spiritual celebration of nature that has been performed by choirs around the world.
Musical Director: James Allen
James grew up in Melbourne Australia where he sang in choirs from the age of 7. James started conducting at St. Augustine's Church, Mentone, Australia in 1999
In 2000 James moved to the UK where he started an involvement with musical theatre groups in the East Midlands as both principal performer and assistant musical director. He took over as musical director of the Ashby Musical Theatre Group in 2002 where he had the helm for 4 shows before embarking on an around the world trip.
In September 2007 James was invited to direct a newly formed choir in Ashby de la Zouch, which has now been named Concordia!. Over the last 3 years the choir has grown to over 30 members and is performing regularly in the North West Leicestershire area.
Sue Harris
One of Britain's foremost dulcimer players, Sue Harris originally played oboe. She took up hammered dulcimer in 1975 when puffing became too much due to pregnancy with her first son. She was in one of the early line-ups of Ashley Hutchings's Albion Country Band, and has played with Richard and Linda Thompson, and John Kirkpatrick. Sue has also composed music for many BBC radio plays and for theatre productions. She is currently working with community orchestras, and as a natural voice practitioner is leading and writing music for small choirs.
Mike Fenton
Sheffield born, Mike grew up in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, and trained as a teacher at Coventry College of Education during 1967-70. In 1986 he left his Kent headship to take his unique music to schools across the country. During the 1990s Mike was visiting up to 180 schools a year. These days Mike goes out about six days a month.
Mike's school presentations are based on the chromatic and diatonic Autoharp, a form of chorded zither on which he is regarded as one of the world's leading players and teachers. He is a three times winner in the contest held annually at the Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention in Virginia, and in 1987 won the International Autoharp Championship held at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.
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