SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

International Bagpipe Conference, Concert and Ball

The day is organised in to three parts:

The Conference 9:15 – 17:30

Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London

Doors open at 9:15 am to greet the participants and audience with tea and biscuits.
Thirteen papers will be presented by as many bagpipe specialists during the day.
A light lunch will be served at midday (all refreshments are included in the conference price).
The conference ends at 17:30 closed by a paper given by the Keynote Speaker, Jean-Pierre Van Hees, an eminent bagpipe scholar and musician from Belgium.

The Concert 19:00 – 20:00

Brunei Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Russell Square, London

A one hour concert will showcase different types of bagpipes in a first half, all played by renowned musicians, including a demonstration of the Baroque Musette by Jean-Pierre Van Hees. The second half will present ZEPHYRUS, the one and only English bagpipe orchestra formed by Jon Swayne in 1998.
http://www.myspace.com/zephyrusbagpipes

The Spring Folk Ball 20:00 – Midnight

Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Russell Square, London

The SOAS French Folk Dance Society has been organising folk balls for the last two years, every time with more success : http://www.soasfrenchdance.org.uk/spring
For you we have booked Angles from Kent http://anglesmusic.co.uk
Skeller from Sheffield http://www.myspace.com/duoskeller
and Olle Gällmo, a master piper coming all the way from Sweden http://olle.gallmo.se/

Tickets and information can be found on www.bagpipeconference.org
Find us on facebook : http://www.facebook.com/events/301094216585779/

For instrument makers : tables are available for £30 if you wish to showcase your instruments. You can write to me directly for more information.

Please spread the information to your friends and colleagues, you never know where a bagpipe lover is hiding !

I hope to see you on the 10th March in London and do not hesitate to write if you have any questions.

All my best,

Cassandre

Price grid :

• £45 / £33 concs. for Conference, Concert and Evening dance (including light lunch and refreshments)
• £35 / £25 concs. for Conference and Concert (including light lunch and refreshments)
• £8 / £6 concs. for concert only
• £10 / £8 concs. for Evening Dance only  (+£2 on the door)

The Conference is organised with the help and support of the Bagpipe Society, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the Institute of Musical Research, The British Forum for Ethnomusicology, the English Folk Dance and Song Society and the SOAS French Folk Dance Society.

Participants

Conference participants and paper 9:15 am – 5:30pm

• Susana Moreno – Portugal (Tras-os-Montes) – Bagpipes playing in contemporary Portugal : some key processes within a vibrant musical practice
• Mano Panforreteiro – Spain (Galicia) – The Galician Bagpipes : a seductive nation
• Barnaby Brown and Julian Goodacre– Scotland (Highlands) – Lessons learned reproducing Highland piping's most precious relic
• Peter Cooke – India (Rajhastan) – The bagpipe in India
• Sophie Jacques de Dixmunde – France (Languedoc) - Revival of the Languedocian bodega
• Joan-Miqueu Espinasse – France (Gascogne) – The boha, black sheep in the family or incredibly talented phenomenon ?
• Olle Gällmo – Sweden (Darlana) – On the origin of the screeches : the evolution of the Swedish bagpipe
• Graham Wells – England (Northumbria) – The Northumbrian smallpipes : a missed opportunity ?
• James Beaton – Scotland (Glasgow) – Noting the tradition : Collecting the Oral history of the Great Highland Bagpipe
• Arnold Myers – Scotland (Edinburgh) – Creating a university collection of bagpipes
• Pete Stewart and Paul Roberts – Lowland Scotland / England (17th-18th Century) – The common bagpipe- some new aspects of piping in mainland Britain in the period 1670-1820
• Clive Matthews – England (19th Century) – The forgotten world of bagpiping in the nineteenth century England
• Jean-Pierre Van Hees – All pipes (taxonomy / organology) – Essay on a new typology of bagpipes

Concert 7pm-8pm

• Jean-Pierre Van Hees – Baroque Musette (Europe)
• Rémy Palézis – Boha (France, Gascogne)
• Zephyrus – English Bagpipe Orchestra, founded by Jon Swayne in 1998

Spring Folk Ball 8pm-11:30pm

• Skeller – Helena Reynolds pipes and fiddle, Martin Skeller hurdy gurdy and melodeon
• Olle Gällmo – Säckpipa, Master piper from Sweden
• Angles - Cliff Stapleton hurdy-hurdy,  Chris Walshaw pipes & whistles, Richard Jones accordion & bouzouki