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Trossingen
30oct~3Nov 2013 |
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Asia Pacific |
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SPAH Convention |
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Harp Summer |
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Mundharmonika-live 13-15 Sep |
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NHL
Bristol 25-27oct2013 |
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NHL Spring Festival |
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Armonicando |
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Harmonica Bridge 23-25 Aug |
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Hill country Harmonica May |
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Spring Harp Festival March |
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GSHC Festival
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Atlantic Canada... |
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Baltic-Nordic 28-30 June 2013 |
| Workshops, Meeting |
Who in Europe does not know about Greg Szlapczynski ? He his playing
with a huge french rock star named Johnny Hallyday, and here is a video while he is playing in Paris on the new project of the famous
composer Vladimir Cosma. To continue...
For those (like me) who could not come to this first "Harmonica Collective" event...Here is a bit of what we missed
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And big Merci to justintheseeker
Hopefully such great event with as precious people to happend some time in Europe or even other continent ?
Lucky people from America, I hope you profit from this event
... Website HERE
In this video, Thierry Crommen who is one of the Geatest Harmonica player from Belgium (with Toots, Steven De Bruyn, Geneviève Dartevelle, Olivier Poumay...).
Thierry is playing on his very first official album with his old friend, the Great guitare finger picking player Jacques Stotzem. That's in 1997 in
Namur (Belgium). Just notice how good is Thierry with both diatonic or chromatic harmonica already... and that's 16 years ago ! What a great sound, and so touching sensitivity.... Thierry's
Facebook page is here
Vincent Bucher is the prefered french Harmonica player of the african musicians. He is also a very good Blues player and singer, with colors of Africa ...
Vincent is also the Harmonica player of the Heritage Blues Orchestra who has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award for their album "And Still I Rise" in the category of Best Blues Album 2012. The group has also been nominated for two Blues Music Awards 2013 for Best Album and Best Traditional Blues Album...
Here Vincent is playing with Boubacar Traoré, very famous musician artist from Mali !...
I am an enthusiast of acoustical and electro-acoustical music mainly. I am also learning to play the mandolin in the register of
Celtic musics thanks to the Irish association of Paris (France)... The violin, the Didgeridoo and the "Thin Wistle" are other instruments that I would love to learn.
But I am also a harmonica player since 1996, amator, friant of all meetings, practice, Jam sessions, events where the harmonica is often present even central. Rich of all that, I acquired a very
good knowledge of this domain, and international network of knowledge.
This instrument proves to be :
However people are very often divested facing the lack of information on this instrument: where to play it, with whom to teach, which family of harmonicas, with
which share (alone isolated in a village with no guess that there is somebody in the same situation in the neighborhood).
Finally why not sharing any serious links of my point of view, who could help these people in lack of information, who have either no possibility of travelling as me, of discover this "family" as
I could make it until then...
Roughly what I would like, is to :
Be please conscious, that I am far from showing all that deserves attention... I hope that my blog gives you desire to search farther
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Of course I do not feel invested with a mission, but I feel great with having a feeling that I can help others !... It is necessary to confess that it is really great to know that it is so
possible to please somebody since music is a sharing...
Please also have a look to the left at the list 'Maps of Players by family...' and the one more general of my mate Paul Lassey. In few words, rather than complaining of the
miss around the harmonica world
I am just trying do something
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Patrice Rayon
PS: Excuse my crap english... My mother langage is the french, and I do not have not enough time to manage all that so I must often make very quickly...
PPS: A small lonely initiative seems often miserable, almost useless but if people does want to believe a bit in it, it is not killed and this does possibly lead to nice things, even more !...
| Maintenance & Tricks |
| Harmo & Society |
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Onica.org [ video for more] |
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Alcindo Carvalho |
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For childrens |
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The Harmonica man |
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At the prison |
| Harmonicas & History |
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Borrah Minevitch & Johnny Puleo |
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Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats |
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Cyril Davies British Blues harp Pioneer |
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Harmonica Collecters International |
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Collection of Doug Dawson |