Monday

A few pictures from today (all going well!) The biggest brass group we have had on any camp!

Simon and percussionists.

More brass!!!

Bassoons and tenoroon.

Woodwind

Claire and her catering staff all peeling onions and fighting the tears (sorry... not the best time to take a photo)

Jazz band

Folk group

Percussion B group on the mound.

Junior campers arrive

Chris Richards. This weeks director. Chris Hibberd. Music Camp staff administrator.

Dr Sarah. ( our own on site GP !!!)

Junior camp reception committee

Campers arriving

The famous Mike Oliver in the first of many retro shirts!

Alison Tumber with Lettuce !

Goodbye T2

What a great week!. Thank you Oli, Ian and the team, it was another wonderful week, and what a fantastic bunch of campers.There were so many special moments ( and a special thanks to Jeffrey!) I can't believe we have had two weeks of music camps already. On to Junior camp!!.

Full camp Hungarian improvisation session!

We have just had a whole music music camp improvisation session based on the Hungarian scale. We split into groups who worked on drones and rhythms, fast melodies and slow melodies all based on the given mode. We then came together to play our newly composed piece of music which we then recorded. The session was lead by Laura our folk tutor who is the Manx music specialist for the Manx Heritage Foundation on the Isle of Mann. It sounded fantastic!

Scruffy goes to T2 (Worth a watch!!!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEGvYeJjnn8

This is a must... a taste of campfire with a twist!

Thursday

A few more pictures. Please excuse the quality of some of them, but broadband is very slow in the village of Wavendon, and that combined with blogging on a little netbook means some of the pictures aren't loading very well ( and its taking ages). We managed our campfire . Its a good job we didn't have it today..... rather wet!

Rosie in bed!

Accordion group

Some of the keyboards

Simon and Pinder on cocoa duty

The directors of our show, Sally and Mike.

Camp fire opening ceremony.

Catering staff item at the campfire.

Campfire

Water fight ( when it was very hot yesterday).

Wednesday

Still fine here at the moment, although we have had a few bursts of rain. Hoping to get our campfire in tonight before the big downpour forcast for tomorrow. All going really well.