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 header of each challenge to go to the relevant page on our website, click on the title of each piece for a link to the sheet music and click on the name of the composer to find out more about them and their works.
JaNEWary Challenge 2025
"Fish Fèis" - Wendy Stewart
JuNEWary Challenge 2024
"The Lade" - Karen Marshalsay
JaNEWary Challenge 2024
"Midnight Lullaby" - Eira Lynn Jones
JaNEWary Challenge 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
JaNEWary Challenge 2022
Day 1 - "Carolan's Dream" - Janet Bennett
Day 15 - "Down by the Walnut Tree" - Shelley Fairplay
JaNEWary Challenge 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
JaNEWary Challenge 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
JaNEWary Challenge 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)
JaNEWary Challenge 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
JaNEWary Challenge 2017
Day 1 "Music from Skye" - arr. Karen Marshalsay
Day 11 - "The Wolves" - Stephen Dunstone
Day 21 - "Cumbrian Music" - arr Mary Dunsford
