The Bagpipe Society

Trad Akademie

Merit Zloch

Close your eyes and imagine a Brothers Grimm fairy tale castle – with a big keep in one corner, on a hilltop in the middle of forest clad slopes. And now imagine… not Sleeping Beauty, but a bunch of young people and children playing music in this setting, getting to know exotic instruments some of them have never seen before, like bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy or nyckelharpa !

This has just happened at Burg Wernfels in Frankonia (which is, roughly speaking, the North Eastern part of Bavaria). The charity,Tramudera e.V., ran, for the first time, a kids-and-teens workshop weekend for traditional music and instruments that they wouldn’t encounter at their local music school.

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