FLUTE & DRUM MAKING WEEKENDS
with Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer

CEDAR FLUTES AND FOREST DRUMS - NOW FULLY BOOKED

June 7 Sat Flute Making 9am~8pm £175 including materials & vegetarian dinner ~ 15 places
June 8 Sun Drum Making 10am~8pm £175 including materials & vegetarian dinner ~ 20 places

This year we will again be holding a weekend of flute and drum making at Lower Merripit Farm, offering English cedar wood flutes and a choice of Dartmoor red deer or Arctic reindeer skin drums. Nigel creates most of the instruments with which he records and performs and has developed the original Native American design into a flute that plays the songs of this land. Carolyn has been teaching drum making for many years, also designing and making most of the instruments with which she works.

All tools and materials are provided - the cedar wood comes from Dartmoor and the animal skins are acquired with care from local Dartmoor or indigenous Sami sources. Participants are welcome to camp, book accommodation here at the farm or simply attend for the day. Inside accommodation consists of four rooms (each sleeping two people) for which an additional charge is made. Camping is in the hay meadow adjacent to the workshop venue and is free. Where they are booked into only one workshop, participants are welcome to stay for the weekend and enjoy time in this beautiful landscape. A vegetarian meal is included in the workshop fee. Each day will start with an opening circle and close with an evening ceremony to bless the new instruments around the fire in our ancient roundhouse. Come and experience the unique gift of creating an ancient and sacred instrument with your own hands, whether you are accustomed to working with tools or a beginner (not suitable for children under 16 years).
PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A BOOKING FORM.

01822 880301 or email  Seventh Wave Music