Winter Warmers – Pipe and Tabor

Winter Warmer Programme

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2023 programme

TABORERS WINTER WARMER (Outline Programme)

FRIDAY 24 to SUNDAY 26 FEB 2023

LOCATIONS ALL AROUND ROTHERHITHE, LONDON SE16 4JE [high D pipe unless indicated low D or G or a collaborative consensus agrees to all play an item on G pipe as if D pipe fingering, solos on any pipe]

Friday:

School session (year 5) at Ashford, Middlesex (afternoon, details to be confirmed, may require some G pipe as if D pipe fingering, liaise with Andy Richards)

Meet in the Mayflower Pub from 4:00

5:30 – 6:30 Tour of the Brunel Museum and Tunnel – with some informal playing

6:30 Eat in the Ship Inn

7:00 – 10:00 Playing session in the Bubble Theatre rehearsal Room

Saturday:

9:00 Breakfast in Watchman Café

10:00 Rehearsal for Parade (St Mary’s Church Hall, tunes for Pastime, then from 11:00 London Pride Morris, including Room for the Cuckolds & Queen’s Jig [Bucknell], Banbury Bill & Glorishears [Bampton], Kemp’s Jig [Lute MS on low Ds into Playford with high Ds]; if time Skirmish & Valentine [Fieldtown], Princess Royal [Lower Swell Longborough] & Fool’s Jig [Bampton].

12:00 Pulchinello’s Parade to Norwegian Church (with dancers from Pastime & London Pride Morris)

12:30 – 1:00 Performance in NC Courtyard

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch (local pubs, cafes or restaurants)

2:00 – 4:00 Performance(s) (London Pride [directed by Squire] plus other keen Winter Warmerers)

4:00 to 6:00 Workshop Sessions in Bubble Theatre: (details to follow, but to include Gillian on 3/2 taboring, plus Morris: Queen’s Jig & Shepherds’ Hey [Bucknell], Kemp’s Jig [Lute MS into Playford], Princess Royal [Lower Swell Longborough]; if time Go and Enlist [Sherborne], Fool’s Jig [Bampton] & Highland Mary [Oddington]).

6:00 Eat in the Ship Inn

7:30 Commedia Show in Sands Studio Theatre (a handful of confident taborers may be invited to perform for opening, broadcast live)

Sunday:

9:00 Breakfast in Watchman café

10:00 Rehearsal in the Bubble Theatre (details to follow, but to include Gillian, Bill and Elizabeth on Rounds & Earworms, plus Morris Reprised for IPATF: Queen’s Jig & Shepherds’ Hey [Bucknell], Kemp’s Jig [Lute MS into Playford], Princess Royal [Lower Swell Longborough]; if time Go and Enlist [Sherborne], Fool’s Jig [Bampton] & Highland Mary [Oddington]).

12:00 Walking tour via Riverside & Kings Park including workshop tunes & Morris Reprised

1:00 — 2:00 Lunch in in the Angel pub (where Pepys watched “London’s burning”!)

2:00 – 3:00 Performance in Southwark Park Bandstand

3:00 – 5:00 Return to Bubble for informal playing session

5:00 — Food and drinks in the Ship or Mayflower for final farewells

Local Accommodation:

YHA Hostel (200 yds from Sands)

Premier Inn at Dalston Junction (near to Overground)

Various Air-B&B’s

Other hotels (near to Canada Water or Rotherhithe transport links)

Wild camping in Southwark Park (at your own risk!)