This weekend it is the Shetland folk festival. One of the bands performing came to the Tingwall Hall to perform for the school and Little Tikes. The band were from Belgium and were called WOR. They spoke Dutch. One of them played saxophone, one of them played fiddle, one of them played guitar, one of them played Flemish bagpipes and one of them played accordion. They played some songs for us then they taught us some Dutch. Dutch is quite similar to English. Hello is Hallo and taxi is just taxi. After that we got to ask them questions. Me and Ashleigh got to give them a present. I enjoyed it.
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Folk Festival
It is the folk festival this weekend in Shetland. We were lucky to have a band from Belgium come to the Tingwall hall to play to us. They are called WÖR and are a quintet. Fabio Di Meo was on saxophone, Pieterjan Van Kerckhoven on the Flemish bagpipes, Oscar Beerten on fiddle, Bert Ruymbeek on accordion and Ward Dhoore on guitar.
They played a short and lively before interacting with the classes and providing them with information about Belgium. Di Meo taught the children a few words in Dutch. Hello is Hallo, thank you is dank je, he told them it is a really easy language to learn, taxi is just taxi.
We learnt that the saxophone, chocolate and fries (apparently) were invented in Belgium!
They also had us up on our feet dancing – we had to clap our hands and stamp our feet along with the music. We also got to sing along with one song.
They were very nice and funny too. We showed our appreciation by giving them cards we made and a few gifts from Shetland. They were very kind and gave us a CD of theirs.
We really enjoyed it, they were great to listen to.
Ashleigh’s certificate of distinction
A big well done to Ashleigh who not only passed her fiddle exam but passed with distinction! Ashleigh brought in her certificate to show the class, here she is with the copy we took of her certificate displayed in the classroom.
Fiddle
A few weeks ago I did my first grade fiddle exam I had to play 3 tunes, do some scales and arpeggios there was sight reading where you have to play a line of music. My teacher is Aimee Barclay from high level music in Lerwick.
Then 1week ago i got my results at 10 passed 9 at night and I passed with distinction which is the highest you can get I am getting my sertifficet tonight.
On Thursday the school had a instrumental concert I played my fiddle and ruby and Evan and brook played there fiddles to I played jingle bells.
Instrumental Concert
We had an instrumental concert this morning. The whole school gathered in the dinning hall to hear them. There were a lot of pupils from P5-7 performing songs for us, there were a lot of Christmas songs that we could sing along with. There were people playing the fiddles, a flute, a recorder, the piano and the guitar.
They all did a fantastic job of performing in front of the whole school! Well done to everyone who took part.
