Some Concertina Links



Concertina pages and clubs




  • The

    North East Concertina Players

    meet on the second Sunday (not August) in Sedgefield, Co. Durham. More details from

    Dave Turner's page    .


  • The

    Concertina Academy

    is Pauline de Snoo's website offering once a month new free downloads: exercises for English Concertina, sheetmusic plus soundfile; online tuition; an excellent links page. Emphasis mainly on classical music for English system.



  • Ayepod.net

    is a Scottish portal run by Simon Thoumire featuring online tuition. Simon's 4-week course on English concertina costs £25 and looks pretty impressive.



  • concertina.net

    Claims to be "the most popular concertina portal in the world!" Useful discussion forums dealing with many relevant issues.



  • Concertina FAQ

    Everything about the instrument: history, types, repairs, how to mike it up, you name it



  • The Concertina Library

    The 'digital reference site' - a useful and elegant site, from which you can download a lot of materials for free



  • ICA

    The International Concertina Association. The site leads you to their scholarly papers



  • West Country Concertina Players

    are a flourishing English group, with regular playing days, a residential weekend in the autumn, and a tradition of holding meetings at Sidmouth during Festival Week, as a 'fringe' activity.



Summer schools and 'events' featuring concertina





  • The Arran Concertina Event (ACE)

    Not exactly a school: attendees discuss what they want to do during the week and work out who can offer what tips, tunes, or techniques. The trip report sounds like great fun



  • Concertinas at Witney

    Wide selection of concertina-related workshops



  • Folkworks

    Folkworks covers many types of traditional music, and you will spend half your time in workshops specifically for concertina players and half your time as part of a band of varied instruments



  • Robert Harbron (left) and his group at the informal concert, Folkworks, October 2006





Tunes and other music





  • The tune finder

    This site has links to a very large number of traditional tunes on the web (English, Celtic, American, European, etc). If you want to know how "The Barefoot Octopus" goes, this is where to look



  • The Session

    More exclusively Celtic than the Tunefinder, this site has useful comments and discussions about the tunes it offers