Fiddle Group at The 2009 Oxford Folk Festival

Last weekend, The Oxford Fiddle Group performed at their local Folk Festival, The Oxford Folk Festival. A Number of venues are used in the centre of Oxford for the festival. The Fiddle group performed at the Holywell Music Room on Friday evening, St Michael's Church in Cornmarket on Saturday lunchtime and The Newman Rooms, St Aldates on Sunday evening.

St Michael's Church performance

The Saturday lunchtime concert was to launch the Fiddle Group's second CD - beyond the Spires. Further details can be found at http://www.oxfordfiddle.co.uk/

After this concert the Oxford Fiddle Group led a session in the 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' They were joined by the Bonn Group 'Reel Bach Consort' who also joined them on Sunday evening for the farewell Ceilidh.

http://www.reel-bach-consort.de/

The weather was gorgeous throughout the weekend so the parades and dances through the city centre went particularly well.

St Patrick's Night at The Rose and Thistle, Haddenham

The Haddenham Shamrocks performed Irish tunes and songs at The Rose and Thistle's St Patrick's Night in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire. This was the first performance for the session group that meets twice a month in The Rose and Thistle.

There was a packed crowd and tremendous atmosphere in the bar as people ate, drank and sang along to the Irish music.

Eleven musicians turned up to play the Irish tunes on fiddle, concertina, accordion, melodion, whistle, banjo, mandolin, guitar and bodhran that had been played in the sessions over the last year.