Festival Events

Guide to Course Levels & Teaching Method

Course Levels

  • Beginner: You have no experience of playing the harp.
  • Post-Beginner: You took last year’s beginners’ class, have had relatively few lessons and/or require help with basic technique.
  • Elementary: You can already perform simple tunes, require further help in consolidating basic technique and wish to work slowly and carefully.
  • Intermediate: You already have good technique and can work at a moderate pace.
  • Advanced: Your technique is good and you wish to stretch yourself.
  • Mixed Ability: For all levels, except Beginner or Post-beginner.

For further advice about course levels please contact us on +44 (0) 131 445 2022

Teaching Method

  • E: teaching will be by ear with no written music given out
  • E+M: teaching will be by ear with written music given out during or at the end of the class or course
  • M: teaching will be from written music
  • M+E: written music will be given at the start of each course. Teaching methods will be sympathetic to all levels of skill in reading music.

Friday March 30th

Patrick Ball

Patrick Ball / Rachel Hair Trio

Start: Friday March 30th, 7:30 pm
End: Friday March 30th, 10:00 pm
Cost: £14.50 (£12.50)
Event Code:
C1
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Saturday March 31st

Find the Lost Cave of Harps: Children 5 to 8 years

Start: Saturday March 31st, 10:00 am
End: Saturday March 31st, 11:00 am
Cost: £9
Event Code:
C2a
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Find the Lost Cave of Harps: Children 9 to 14

Start: Saturday March 31st, 2:15 pm
End: Saturday March 31st, 3:15 pm
Cost: £9
Event Code:
C3a
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An Audience with Catriona McKay

Start: Saturday March 31st, 3:00 pm
End: Saturday March 31st, 4:00 pm
Cost: £9
Event Code:
C4
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Rhodri Davies

Rhodri Davies / Anne-Marie O’ Farrell & Cormac De Barra

Start: Saturday March 31st, 7:30 pm
End: Saturday March 31st, 10:00 pm
Cost: £14.50 (£12.50)
Event Code:
C5
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Sunday April 1st

Find the Lost Cave of Harps: Children 5 to 8 years

Start: Sunday April 1st, 10:00 am
End: Sunday April 1st, 11:00 am
Cost: £9
Event Code:
C2b
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Find the Lost Cave of Harps: Children 9 to 14 years

Start: Sunday April 1st, 2:15 pm
End: Sunday April 1st, 3:15 pm
Cost: £9
Event Code:
C3b
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Music of Two Nations: Eddie McGuire, Yi Dong & Hannah Phillips

Start: Sunday April 1st, 3:00 pm
End: Sunday April 1st, 4:00 pm
Cost: £11 (£9)
Event Code:
C6
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Ancience: Mary Macmaster, Gwenan Gibbard, Andy May, Tiarnán Ó Duinchinn & Joe Acheson

Start: Sunday April 1st, 7:30 pm
End: Sunday April 1st, 10:00 pm
Cost: £14.50 (£12.50)
Event Code:
C7
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Monday April 2nd

Dimitri Boekhoorn & Susan Enochsson

Start: Monday April 2nd, 3:00 pm
End: Monday April 2nd, 4:00 pm
Cost: £11 (£9)
Event Code:
C8
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