Bert Jansch Guitar Workshops
Learn to play Bert Jansch’s special riffs, vamps, elements and iconic compositions
Workshop leaders including Jon Riley, Thomas Fairhurst and Dariush Kanani, key creators of Bert Transcribed: the Bert Jansch Songbook, give special insights into Bert’s influences as well as his idiosyncratic style. They provide study materials, special exercises and some of his most loved compositions. Players of all ages and backgrounds are welcome. It will be helpful if you can fingerpick and read tab or staff notation.
See the listings below for current workshops. If you would like to have a workshop in your area – contact info@bertjanschfoundation.org
2020 Workshops
2020 October, Sunday 25: London, Cecil Sharp House
2020 July, Sunday 5: Frome Somerset
2020 April, Sunday 5: London, Cecil Sharp House
2019 Workshops
2019 December, Saturday 14: London, Cecil Sharp House
2020 September, Saturday 28: Truro, Shortlanesend Village Hall
2020 May, Saturday 11: London, Cecil Sharp House
2018 Workshops
2018 October, Saturday 27: Sage Gateshead
2018 October, Friday 26: Newcastle University
2018 October, Wednesday 24: Goldsmiths University of London
2018 October, Sunday 21: London Cecil Sharp House
2018 August, Sat and Sunday 18/19: Green Man Festival Crickhowell, Wales
2018 April, Sunday 29: London Cecil Sharp House
2018 March, Thursday 22: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow
2019 Workshops
Comments from participants:
“Working through sections of the music – step by step was really useful”
“Really enjoyable – lovely atmosphere – friendly, and very inclusive”
“I loved it. Opened new ideas about playing Bert’s tunes”
Bert Jansch Guitar Workshops
The first Bert Jansch guitar workshop was held during the 2016 Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, together with two sold-out Bert Inspired concerts. Subsequent workshops have taken place in the UK and abroad, at Cecil Sharp House, London, at the Sage Gateshead, in Truro Cornwall, at Edinburgh Napier, Newcastle, and Goldsmiths Universities, at a Jazz College in France and a Songwriters Club in Denmark. Workshops take place at festivals such as the Green Man Festival in Wales and Frome Festival in Somerset. If you would like to join or host a workshop in your area – contact info@bertjanschfoundation.org
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