
HELSBY BLUEGRASS CLUB
Local music resources
Teaching
Stu Williams teaches locally in the Frodsham/Helsby area covering several instruments, notably guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle.
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Mike Giverin teaches mandolin. A professional musician for 15 years, touring with Jaywalkers and 4Square, he has run lots of workshops along the way, many locally in Manley Village Hall.
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He is available for private lessions, Skype lessons and also runs a teaching website at www.mandomike.com
Kevin Shannon offers beginner-banjo tuition (although he lives in Newton Le Willows)
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Nowadays there are various internet-enabled methods of learning an instrument but 1:1 tuition is certainly the best.
Contact
Stu Williams - Email: stubanjo@gmail.com Tel: 01928 732 730
Mike Giverin - Email: mike@mandomike.com
Kevin Shannon - Email: kevinshannon2000@yahoo.co.uk Tel: 07955 221 783
Playing resources
Locally, there are resources made available by club members to develop your playing with others.
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Beryl England and Bryn Williams run a Saturday morning session in Alvanley, Frodsham, allowing members to play songs/tunes as a group and also on a solo-basis. Bryn provides tuition via song-sheets, tablature sheets and teaching CDs.
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Contact Beryl: email bezzer_england@hotmail.com
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Andy Pipes is an accomplished clawhammer banjo-player.
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Contact Andy: email mypipeline@gmail.com
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