Tickets for the Sixth International Bagpipe Conference and the Newcastle Piping Festival are now available! We have a weekend packed with musical events for you, organised in collaboration with the Northumbrian Piping Society and Newcastle University.
If you have any further questions, please contact us here: internationalbagpipeorg@gmail.com
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EU/INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLERS: All passengers travelling to the UK now need a passport. EU identity cards are now no longer accepted.
SCHEDULE
Friday 11 March
Noon: Northumbrian bagpipe lunchtime concert (NPF event - donation)
From 7pm: 'Bring Your Own Bagpipes' Evening Session in a local pub (location tbc)
Saturday 12 March
9-5:30pm: Conference at King's Hall, Newcastle University (see detail of papers below). Lunch and tea breaks included in the price
5:30-6:30pm: Conference wine reception (included in conference price)
7pm: Newcastle Piping Festival International Bagpipe Concert, King's Hall, Newcastle University (incuded in conference price)
9pm onwards: 'Bring Your Own Bagpipes'Session in a local pub
Sunday 13 March
9am-12pm: Conference at King's Hall, Newcastle University, including screening of "The Journey of Askavlos - a documentary film about greek bagpipes" by Yorgos Arvanitis (tea break included in conference price)
1-5pm: Trip to Morpeth to visit the UK's largest bagpipe collection (and one of Europe's largest collections). Add on cost which covers coach transport to the museum.
From 7pm: 'Bring Your Own Bagpipes' Final Session in a local pub
LIST OF PAPERS (in randomised order and subject to change)
If you have any further questions, please contact us here: internationalbagpipeorg@gmail.com
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EU/INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLERS: All passengers travelling to the UK now need a passport. EU identity cards are now no longer accepted.
SCHEDULE
Friday 11 March
Noon: Northumbrian bagpipe lunchtime concert (NPF event - donation)
From 7pm: 'Bring Your Own Bagpipes' Evening Session in a local pub (location tbc)
Saturday 12 March
9-5:30pm: Conference at King's Hall, Newcastle University (see detail of papers below). Lunch and tea breaks included in the price
5:30-6:30pm: Conference wine reception (included in conference price)
7pm: Newcastle Piping Festival International Bagpipe Concert, King's Hall, Newcastle University (incuded in conference price)
9pm onwards: 'Bring Your Own Bagpipes'Session in a local pub
Sunday 13 March
9am-12pm: Conference at King's Hall, Newcastle University, including screening of "The Journey of Askavlos - a documentary film about greek bagpipes" by Yorgos Arvanitis (tea break included in conference price)
1-5pm: Trip to Morpeth to visit the UK's largest bagpipe collection (and one of Europe's largest collections). Add on cost which covers coach transport to the museum.
From 7pm: 'Bring Your Own Bagpipes' Final Session in a local pub
LIST OF PAPERS (in randomised order and subject to change)
- "The revival and the evolution of the gaida in Mainland Greece. A case study from the Northern Evros region". Athanasios Ouzounis
- "The Galician bagpipe in Cuba during the period between the 19th and 20th centuries". Estíbaliz Santamaría Cadaval, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- "French and Italian bagpipes, from sordellina to Parisian bal-musette: a long tradition of exchange and musical construction between France and Italy". Eric Montbel and Marco Tomassi
- "Are french bagpipes identity-based? The example of two Occitan bagpipes: the boha (Bagpipe of the Gascony moors) and the bodega or craba (Bagpipe of the Black Mountain of Languedoc)". Joan-Miquèu Espinasse
- "« Svadba bez gajda ne mozhe ! » A wedding without bagpipe it’s impossible!" Marie-Barbara Le Gonidec, CNRS
- "Latvian bagpipes – DŪDAS or SOMAS STABULES" Juris Lipsnis, head of the folk-group Suitu dūdenieki (Suiti Bagpipers)
- "'Having a stave' in 1833: An early first hand account of the Northumbrian Smallpipes". Rob Say
- "Diamond in the Rough -The pipemaking of Tom Clough and Fred Picknell." Andy May
- "The Atkinson family: a paradigm of social mobility in Northumberland from C17- C20". Julia Say, NPS
- "The National Security Law and the future of Scottish bagpiping in Hong Kong". Andrew Yu, Edinburgh University
- "Restoration of an 18th century ivory musette". Bart von Troyen
- "Restitution of a 12th century bagpipe in Gascony". Yan Cozian, Bagpipe teacher and maker
- "Recovering the playing techniques of 18th century Border pipers to bring them into 21st century Border piping". Matt Seattle
- "‘An Phíb Mhór’ – the bagpipe as an instrument of protest". Ciarán MacMurchaidh, Dublin City University
- "Towards a pattern language for the maintenance and revival of traditional piping. Stephen Quilley and Anna Beresford, University of Waterloo, Ontario
- "Piping, drumming and a global pandemic: understanding the immediate and long-term impacts of Covid-19". Andy Clark
- "Music for French Kings". Amanda Babington