Traditions of Britain: School Visits

British Traditions School and Museum Sessions

Britain has a rich, varied, and often under-rated traditional culture.
International tourists travel to view our heritage sites, but many UK residents don't know much about our tradition of story, music, dance, song and customs.
- and sadly for many people they're often simply a guaranteed joke line.
..."Morris Dancing..."
There's also a vast amount of unsubstantiated romantic mist available in many books supposedly teaching about the subject - "This tradition goes back thousands of years" etc.

Following several schools' requests for tailor-made workshops, I now offer sessions on British traditions,
BUT,
   please note,
    NOT from any nationalistic point of view.
One of the great strengths of the traditions is that, like the people of Britain, they have links, perhaps origins, in countries spread far across the world.

Which activities we do depends largely on session length, and teacher choice, but can include stories, tunes, dances both social and ritual, songs, customs related to particular times of year, and instruments: concertinas, hammer dulcimer, accordian, melodeon, whistle, pipe & tabor,and Northumbrian smallpipes.

NEW Traditional Song Workshop, duo version!

Seasonal Sessions:

• What decorations came before Christmas Trees?
• Wassail!
• Which customs really are old, and which aren't? - there's a lot of myth about myth!
  • Is it true Father Christmas only got red clothes when Coke adverts dressed him thus? (No!)
• Much more!