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‘At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year’. Music and dance traditions play a big part in Manx Christmas celebrations over the Kegeesh Ommidjagh or Foolish Fortnight, and there are plenty of opportunities for everyone to get involved in the festivities! Read more about Hunting the Wren, pea-shooting at the Oie’ll Verrey services, the White Boys’ play, the raucous Mollag Band and other unusual customs associated with this time of year!! http://manxmusic.com/news_story_505045.html

[Manx advent calendar images by Mary Cousins for Culture Vannin]

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kiaull manninagh jiu 12/17 & 01/18 culture vannin www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rI-1ssLzdo Conservatoirewith hisBirmingham Folk Folk Ensembleat Shrewsbury Festival 2017 WATCH JOEIN ACTION JOE BROUGHTON FOLKESTRA WORKSHOPS Feb 2018 Book yourBook Eventbrite tickets via:http://manxmusic.com/news_story_505708.html St Johns Methodist HallonSaturdaySt Johns Methodist 10thFebruary 2018 Find outmore aboutJoe:www.joebroughton.comand Tom: www.tomchapman.net Youth Folkestra workshop for 10-16year oldstudents £5.00 Folkestra workshop 16+andAdults £10.00 Photo by and SimonGoff Tom Chapman. 11.30am-1.30pm 2.30pm -4.30pm and friends atand friends theend! and give for family aminiperformance ofabig, funfolk part Be musicensemble, and othermusicalyouths welcome). students aged10-16years (Bree, MYO, (over oneisfor 16s)andtheafternoon 10th February. The firstoneis for adult HallonSaturdayin St Johns Methodist workshops willtakeplacehour practical Organised by Culture Vannin, thesetwo for! simple tune, allabilitieswillbecatered music, andaslongyou canplay a own), there’s noneedto beableto read All instruments are welcome your (bring twist!) Manx of folk-jazz-classical-funk fusion(witha for anexhilarating workshop practical innovative percussionists, Tom Chapman, Band) andoneoftheUK’s most Ensemble, Folk Urban Albion Quartet, Conservatoire(Birmingham Folk multi-instrumentalist JoeBroughton Join incredibly talented, fiddlerand The more themerrier!!

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