Harps North West
JaNEWary Challenge & Online Learning
Ready to learn some new tunes? or looking for a challenge for the month ahead?
Follow the wonderfully clear guidance of Mary Dunsford in her online tutorials.
Each day by day series of vidoes take you through a whole varitety of pieces of music kindly donated by past tutors. Dealing with a few digestable bars at a time, Mary expertly guides you through learning new pieces for your repertoire.
Click on the links to see our previous year's challenges, scroll down for a full index of pieces and composers and watch this space for next year's JaNEWary Challenge!
Index of pieces.
Here is an index of all the music generously dontated to all of our music learning challenges.You can click on each composers name to find out more about them and their works.
2023 - Day 1 - Both Sides Now, Joni Mitchell. Arr Lauren Scott
Day 10 - There Were Always Going to be Owls - Lauren Scott
Day 16 - Moving house Rag - Tamsin Dearnley
Bonus Piece - Stargazing - Gill Lowden
2022 - Day 1 - Carolan's Dream - Janet Bennett
Day 15 - Down by the Walnut Tree - Shelley Fairplay
2021 - Day 1 - "Clouds in a Sunlit Sky" - Eira Lynn Jones
Day 14 - "Solace" - Kristine Warmhold (lap harp)
Day 20 - "Autumn is Nigh" - Paul Lewis
2020 - Day 1 - Warm up exercise
Day 2 - "The Seal Lullaby" - arr. Lauren Scott
Day 12 - "Chopiene" - Doug Thomas
Day 24 - "Pachelbel's Canon" - arr. Sylvia Woods
2019 - Day 1 - "Pure Imagination" - arr. Lauren Scott
Day 7 - "Pure Imagination" - arr. Lauren Scott (advanced)
Day 14 - "Ruff Reggae" - Ben Creighton-Griffiths
Day 22 - "The Good Boy's Lunch" - Mary Dunsford(lap harp)
2018 - Day 1 - "Rock to Joy" - arr Mary Dunsford
Day 7 - "Armenian Duduk Melody" - arr. Wendy Stewart
Day 17 - "Row Row Rondo Boat" - arr. Mary Dunsford
Day 22 - "Funky Blues" - Ben Creighton Griffiths
2017 - Day 1 - "Music from Skye" - arr. Karen Marshalsay
Day 11 - "The Wolves" - Stephen Dunstone
Day 21 - "Cumbrian Music" - arr Mary Dunsford
2015 - Day 1 - "Tracey's Wriggly Jig" - Karen Marshalsay
