Roots & Flutes
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| Sounds and Stories of the World's oldest musical instruments presented by Bob Pegg |
Sounds and Stories of the World's oldest musical instruments presented by Bob Pegg
Saturday 14/07/2012
Time: 2 - 5pm
Location: Highland Museum of Childhood
Entry Fee: Free
2 -3.30pm: Storytelling and making storybooks workshop for families. Please book.
4 - 5pm: Roots and Flutes.
If staying for both please bring a snack for break time.
Roots and Flutes.
For thousands of years people have played instruments made from natural objects, and from basic materials like clay, wood, horn and animal skin, to make wonderful, haunting music. Roots and Flutes brings these instruments into the spotlight, demonstrating their huge variety of sounds, exploring teir origins and history, looking at how they are made and how they work, and telling some of the legends and folk tales that are attached to them, for example: how Duncan Williamson learnt to play the trump; the origin of the Native American courting flute; the story of Munlochy Bay and the magical horn of Finn MacCool; and the ceilidhing of the Smoo Cave hunter-gatherers, 6000 years ago.
The instruments played during Roots and Flutes include scallop shells, sea-shore pebbles, food bowl drum, ocarinas of stone, horn and clay, Viking panpipes, bone flute, snorrie bone, buckie shell, ox horn, conch shell trumpet, Dark Ages lyre, Native American flutes, Scaninavian shepherd's pipe, deerskin drum, concertina, and more.
Roots and Flutes has delighted audiences of all ages in schools, museums, libraries and community venues throughout Scotland and England and as far away as Iceland. The unusual instruments and their sounds engage even the very young, encouraging listeners to go out and investigate the musical potential of the natural world for themselves.
Contact: Bob Pegg
Telephone/Mobile: 01997 421186
Email: moc.liamg|kcabstac#moc.liamg|kcabstac
Event websites:
http://www.bobpegg.com
http://www.highlandmuseumofchildhood.org.uk/
Look for Twitter usernames: @hmoc
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