Passing on knowledge about my instrument and spreading my favorite tunes is a big passion of mine - and a very important part of what it means to me to be a FOLK musician. It's about sharing and spreading joy, lifting each other up, nerding around and just having an overall fantastic time together 🎉

So here's a little info about where me and my partner Björn will be teaching workshops in 2025 (only in Germany this time). Some are nyckelharpa workshops, some are open to all instruments. I'm also always available for private nyckelharpa lessons online, just so you know! 🍀

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21.-22.03.25 - Nyckelharpawochenende Süd - Balingen
- nyckelharpa beginners with Björn

09.-11.05.25 - Nyckelharpawochenende Nord - Proitzer Mühle
- nyckelharpa slightly advanced players with Björn

18.-20.07.25 - Bordun Sommercamp - Balingen
- nyckelharpa beginners & slightly advanced players with me
- ensemble with Björn

27.-29.06.25 - KlangRauschTreffen - Hösseringen
- minuet repertoire workshop with me & Björn

23.-26.10.25 - Spielkurs Lützensömmern
- nyckelharpa beginners & slightly advanced players with me
- ensemble with Björn

14-16.11.25 - Nyckelharpakurs Altenmünster
- nyckelharpa beginners with me
- nyckelharpa advanced players with Björn

find out more about these workshops on our website akleja.de/dates

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#nyckelharpa #workshops #teachingMusic #folkmusic #tradmusic #cittern #workshopWeekend #acousticmusic #folkmusician #sharingKnowledge

New server so time for an #introduction

UK based in a very small rural town, currently working in a café at a nearby historic property which is home to a very large orchard and a 600 year old house. Former professional artisan baker (bread) now primarily baking at home and on a much smaller scale at work (cakes).

I love to cook, look after my garden - trying to balance wildlife and growing produce - and spending time outside usually walking/hiking with my husband or going for a run on my own.

Former Anglican Christian monk, absolutely against Christo-fascism/Christian Nationalism. I still worship in a church community and study theology for fun. Silence is a big part of my faith so a lot of what I read is about the Carmelites, Carthusians, Cistercians, and Quakers.

Very interested in permaculture, language learning, amphibians, fibre arts, and folk music.

I often describe myself as gay because it's easier than explaining that I'm on the aro-ace spectrum, especially now I'm married.

Some hashtags: #permaculture #BreadPosting #frogs #FibreArts #FolkMusic #GrowYourOwn
#Anglican #Quaker

Today in Labor History March 2, 1997: Earth First! Activist, feminist and IWW labor organizer Judi Bari died. Bari, and her comrade, Darryl Cherney, survived a terrorist bomb attack in Oakland, CA in 1990, when they were organizing Redwood Summer, a 3-month campaign of nonviolent direct actions, during the summer of 1990, to end the clear-cutting of northern California redwood forests. The police and FBI immediately blamed her for the bombing, claiming that she was the terrorist and that the bomb was intended for logging companies. They arrested her and handcuffed her to her hospital bed, as she lay there with a shattered pelvis. Bari and Cherney were eventually exonerated and won a settlement for the FBI’s role in violating their civil liberties. The bomber was never caught. In addition to their organizing and activism, Bari and Cherney were also musical composers and performers. Their song, “Will the Fetus Be Aborted,” (to the tune of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,”) was performed by Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon on their Prairie Home Invasion album.

Bari was instrumental in organizing Local 1 of the IWW, an effort to unite timber workers and environmentalists around the same goal of ending the clear-cutting of the forests. Some of the actions during Redwood Summer included preparing breakfast at base camp and getting it to the timber workers at 5 am, before they began work, in an effort to talk with them and organize them. Redwood Summer, as a whole, was well-organized. Veteran Direct-Action activists hosted numerous organizing events in the months that preceded the actions, to train activists in their legal rights, direct action tactics, security, jail solidarity, etc. However, there was little to no training in labor organizing or class solidarity. Consequently, at least for the actions in which I participated, the conversations with timber workers tended to be privileged activists talking down to the workers, telling them how they should be thinking and acting, and the timber workers yelling at them and threatening them. One environmentalist was clobbered with an axe handle. Others were attacked with rocks. And on at least one occasion, assailants fired guns at base camp. Overall, the actions did not stop the clear cutting of the forests, but they did slow things down for a while, and they did reduce Louisiana Pacific’s profits.

#LaborHistory #workingclass #IWW #earthfirst #judibari #fbi #terrorism #bombing #police #ecology #redwoodsummer #folkmusic #solidarity #classconsciousness #jail #directaction