Chatterbox with Mel Biggs
autor: Mel Biggs Music
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Lisa Jarvest: Push, Pull & Persevere
Lisa Jarvest: Push, Pull & Persevere
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Mel Biggs is a folk musician, melodeon player, and expert in online music education. Over the years, she's met some of the finest box players & teachers from across Europe. Join Mel every month as she chats with a different folk celebrity guest, and get to know the person behind the music. Tune in for your monthly dose of inspiration, entertainment & accordion geekery!
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- Lisa Jarvest: Push, Pull & Persevere · 1 h 11 min · Epizoda 35Lisa Jarvest (née McDermott) is one of the most rock solid and uniquely stanced melodeon players on the English folk dance music scene. After a summer spent playing together or…
- Rees Wesson: Zydeco Sont Pas Salé · 1 h 5 min · Epizoda 34Rees Wesson - timeline 1974 – Mike James turned up at our folk club with a melodeon. I was smitten. Bought a Hohner Pokerwork for £30 and off I went. Learned to play on the night…
- Moya Sweeney: The Area In Between · 1 h 11 min · Epizoda 33Moya Sweeney, is an accomplished Irish traditional musician and tutor, having performed across Ireland and Europe. Moya graduated from Ulster University with a First-Class…
- Tara Connaghan: Navigating Session Uncertainty · 1 h 33 min · Epizoda 32Tara Connaghan is an Irish traditional fiddle player from Co. Donegal with more than 35 years' experience performing, teaching and participating in Irish music sessions. She is…
- Sophie Petkevich: Connection In Isolation · 1 h 8 min · Epizoda 31Sophie Petkevich is a professional multi-instrumentalist, composer, and musicologist currently based in Novi Sad, Serbia. After graduating from the St. Petersburg Conservatoire…
- Anna Pack: From Fan Girls To Band Girls · 1 h 5 min · Epizoda 30Anna Pack is a musician and dancer with a long-standing interest in European traditional dance, performing in duos with Blowzabella's Dave Shepherd (R.I.P.), Nigel Eaton…
- Nick Wiseman-Ellis: Weaving Musical Kinship · 1 h 1 min · Epizoda 29Nick has performed and taught professionally since 2010 after completing the BMus Folk and Traditional Music with a 1st from Newcastle University. Since then, he has been part of…
- Katie Howson: Looking East, Looking West · 1 h 14 min · Epizoda 28Katie Howson, often thought of as a one-row player but these days she plays mainly D/G, is best known as a driving force in a number of significant English ceilidh bands…
- Filippo Gambetta: Ciao From Madagascar · 1 h 2 min · Epizoda 27Join Mel this month as she sits down for a long-awaited catch up with Filippo Gambetta since meeting him at Halsway Manor Melodeon Study Week 2023. During that week, Filippo…
- Jo Freya: Mentor. Icon. Legend. · 1 h 7 min · Epizoda 26Jo Freya is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and composer based in Nottinghamshire, England. Over an extensive career spanning five decades she has been part of some…
- Mel Biggs: Trusting Instinct & Opportunity · 1 h 7 min · Epizoda 25Mel Biggs is a Morris dancer, musician, and highly-renowned melodeon tutor based in Derbyshire, England. In her professional career, Mel has risen from the EFDSS Aspire program…
- Roger Watson: Transforming Tradition · 1 h 8 min · Epizoda 24Roger Watson has been playing melodeon for 55 of his 78 years. Known for his work as a member of Muckram Wakes and The New Victory Band in the 1970s, he published a tutor method…
- Sophie Cavez: Behind The Style & Sophistication · 1 h 5 min · Epizoda 23Sophie Cavez is a self-taught diatonic accordionist and electric bassist from Belgium. She has firmly established herself in the world of button accordion music, leading her own…
- Bruno Le Tron: Accordéon Autodidacte Extraordinaire · 1 h 6 min · Epizoda 22Bruno Le Tron is a diatonic accordionist based in Brittany, France. It was in the 1980s that he discovered folk dance and Fest-Noz and developed a passion for the diatonic…
- Judy Minot: Practice Smarter, Practice Happier · 1 h 9 min · Epizoda 21Judy Minot is a music educator and musician, and the author of the award-winning book Best Practice, Inspiration and Ideas for Traditional Musicians. She plays piano, accordion…
- Chris Hall: O'Cajunal Squeezes With Fame · 1 h 1 min · Epizoda 20Chris Hall is a 5-time award winning accordion player / vocalist / harmonica / bass / guitar / drums who, it’s said, almost single handedly introduced the sounds of Cajun and…
- Simon Care: Fake It 'til You Make It · 1 h 9 min · Epizoda 19Simon Care started playing melodeon at the age of 10, after failing terribly at the Piano Accordion. Playing for Moulton Morris, under the watchful eye of Dave Jolly he…
- Frankie Insley: The Power of Queer Folk Spaces · 1 h 1 min · Epizoda 18Frankie Insley is a multi instrumentalist based in Newcastle who has a deep love for the one-row melodeon and fiddle. After discovering folk through Morris dancing as a teenager…
- Martin Coudroy: Bellows & Bows Across Cultures · 53 min · Epizoda 17An accordionist, violinist, singer, composer, and arranger, Martin's artistic approach is open and curious about different aesthetics, from dance music, bal folk, jazz, musette…
- Archie Churchill-Moss: Finding Your Musical Voice · 1 h 1 min · Epizoda 16Join me this month as I sit down to chat with Archie Churchill-Moss who has worked as a session musician for some of the UK's top folk acts (Seth Lakeman, Sam Sweeney, Cara…
