TUTORS:
SIMON CARE started his melodeon playing as a 9 year old with Moulton Morris Men. He formed his own ceilidh band at the age of 15 and played his first festival, Broadstairs, when he was 17. Since then he has joined many bands including The Albion Band, Edward II, Tickled Pink, Whapweasel, The Cock and Bull Band, The Phil Beer Band and many more......he has always kept himself grounded in the dance traditions of England and that is where he feels most comfortable.
PETE COE has been a professional touring & recording folk musician for 40 years. Although he's best known as a singer & multi instrumentalist, he was lead melodeon player in the legendary New Victory Band & continues to play for ceilidhs with several bands in West Yorkshire. He's also an experienced caller, organises the Brighouse Barn Dances & if he's neither playing nor calling then he can be seen breaking a leg on the dance floor. Pete plays Hohner Club melodeons, circa 1936, & has been known to pour scorn on inferior & more expensive models.
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STEVE DUMPLETON lives in Sheffield and has been playing the melodeon for over 25 years. He specialises in playing for dancing and is a musician for Sheffield-based women’s dance team Lizzie Dripping and Ouse Washes Molly from Norfolk, as well as regularly appearing as a musician in several Sheffield and Peak District ceilidh bands.
Steve's style of playing is firmly rooted in the English dance tradition, particularly from the east of England, his original home. He is an experienced teacher having close connections with the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, as a regular tutor at their events and as one of the production team for the East Anglian tunebook Before the Night Was Out. Steve also brings the experience and discipline of over 40 years as an orchestral clarinettist into fusion with traditional music. He strives to bring rhythmic vitality coupled with melodic phrasing into his playing and into his teaching.
GEERT OUDE WEERNINK started some thirty years ago at a time when there were neither workshops nor teachers, playing English and Irish music at first. Since those early years he has been, both as a concert/workshop organizer and musician, in contact with and inspired by various musicians from France, Italy, Basque Country, Ireland and other places. Geert is active as a solo performer and workshop leader and he founded and plays with The Star of the North Ceili Band, the only Irish style ceili band in the Netherlands. He is also programmer of Folk Foundation Groningen and artistic director of Trad.It!, the leading Dutch festival for European roots music.
www.folkgroningen.nl, www.myspace.com/starofthenorthceiliband, www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Star-of-the-North-Ceili-Band/194894733859805
photo © Jan Bouwman
JULIAN SUTTON hails from the North East of England and has been playing melodeon in traditional music and dance groups since the age of nine. He is probably best known for his work with the renowned Northumbrian piper and composer Kathryn Tickell and her band, with whom he has recorded several albums and toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe and North America.
Julian is also known as a skilled accompanist of traditional song, having worked with amongst others the Scottish singer/songwriter Karine Polwart, and Northumbrian song group and recent Mercury Prize nominees The Unthanks. He now also plays regularly in the band of the multi-award winning English folk songstress Kate Rusby. Other recent projects have included working with an exciting combination of musicians from England and Finland called The Auvo Quartet, and playing in a duo with French bagpiping wizzard Fabrice Besson. His most exciting musical adventure to date has been recording and performing with fellow Geordie and celebrated rock musician Sting, for the project If On a Winter's Night.
Julian’s playing, although rooted in Northumbrian music, has also been influenced by Irish, French and Scandanavian traditional music as well as by comtemporary music and jazz.
