North West Early Music Forum

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NWEMF was founded in 1977 and its membership is drawn from amateur and professional musicians, most of whom live in the North West of England.

Our aim is to promote interest in the study and informed performance of early music, especially Renaissance and Baroque.

Our principal current activities are:

to send members 5 issues of a Newsletter each year. Each contains articles, reports of workshops and courses and a diary of early music events (not just NWEMF events)

 

to organise Early Music Workshops for singers and instrumentalists in venues in Flintshire, Cheshire, Merseyside, Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria usually on Saturdays

 

to run an annual Summer School of Renaissance Music in Ambleside.

 

to loan out instruments for those wanting to start to learn an early instrument. 

NWEMF is a registered charity No. 508218

NWEMF is an Associate Member of Making Music

 

FoMRHI REVIVAL - CALL FOR PAPERS, AND NEW MEMBERS
 
FoMRHI, the Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historical Instruments, is being revived after a lapse of six years. It is a forum organisation, with a lively quarterly A5 publication where contributors report, discuss and debate all aspects of historical instrument making and research, from Henry's VIII stump to Beethoven's piano and the Coptic cistrum. A unique feature is that communications appear unedited, exactly as the contributors send them (drawings, illustrations and diagrams welcome). In the revived quarterly there will also be a question and answer page, and a members' announcements page. All contributions - including questions - are rewarded with a year's free membership. A webpage will be set up in due course - but the belief is that a printed paper quarterly still offers handier reference, and invites more careful and considered reading and responses than any electronic bulletin board. And you can read it in the bath, of course.
 
To enquire, join, or ask for a free sample copy of FoMRHI Quarterly, conact: FoMRHI, c/o Chris Goodwin, Southside Cottage, Brook Hill, Albury, Guildford GU5 9DJ  tel: 01483 202159  email

Last Updated; 03 October 2008  

 

Application forms for forthcoming workshops are now available on line as pdf files you can print and send in.