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Leveret Musicians’ Week

Monday 21 Jul 4pm — Friday 25 Jul 10am, 2025

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Folk musicians leveret positioned in a landscape setting with rocks and hills
Pricing

This course is currently sold out. We do sometimes get cancellations - if you would like to be added to the waiting list, please fill in an enquiry form and tick the 'Waiting List' box.

Full board per person (tuition, activities, all meals & accommodation):

£460 – single occupancy ensuite room/cabin
£420 – sharing an ensuite room/cabin
£420 – single occupancy non-ensuite room
£380 – sharing non-ensuite room

Camping per person (tuition, activities, all meals):

£275

Non Resident (tuition, activities, all meals except breakfast):

£255

Get a closer look at the accommodation options here.

This course is currently sold out. We do sometimes get cancellations – if you would like to be added to the waiting list, please fill in an enquiry form and tick the ‘Waiting List’ box.

Leveret return to Halsway Manor for their popular musicians’ week.

“Leveret is the finest of traditional English folk today: a trio of poise and subtle gesture, of deft layering, graceful swing and gorgeous understatement.” The Guardian

Leveret features three of England’s finest folk musicians – Andy Cutting, Rob Harbron, Sam Sweeney – in an acclaimed collaboration, and we’re delighted to welcome them back to Halsway to lead this musicians’ workshop. Every year this workshop sells-out well in advance, and numbers are limited, so book early to secure your place!

Leveret’s music involves playing together spontaneously without using arrangements. This workshop week for instrumentalists will explore ways of playing together intuitively in ensembles of varying size, as well as discussing repertoire development and composition. Some of the sessions will be discussion-focused, with more practical work as the week progresses.

There will also be a chance to see Leveret perform on the Thursday evening.

Who is it for?

The week is open to instrumentalists of intermediate to advanced abilities. It is not suitable for beginners.  The workshops will focus on general music-making skills rather than instrument-specific technique, so you’ll need to have a sufficient grasp of your instrument to get involved.  The course will be taught by ear and if you’ve been to one of Leveret’s weeks before, the band make no promises that there won’t be some crossover of material or subject matter.

This workshop is limited to 30 participants and will be popular so please do book your place sooner than later!

The Team

Fiddler Sam Sweeney was voted ‘Musician of the Year’ at the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards thanks to his work in Bellowhead, Eliza Carthy’s Wayward Band, The Full English and his own Made In The Great War project. He was the inaugural Artistic Director of the National Youth Folk Ensemble.

Melodeon genius Andy Cutting is a three-time winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ‘Musician of the Year’ award, and as well as his new trio with Martin Simpson and Nancy Kerr currently performs with Blowzabella, Topette, Anne Niepold, June Tabor, and Roger Daltry.

Concertina wizard Rob Harbron is known for his work with The Full English (Best Group and Best Album BBC Folk Awards 2014), Emma Reid, Fay Hield, Jon Boden and others.