‘Performance’ with Nancy Kerr and James Fagan

Name: ‘Performance’ with Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
Start: 2025-06-27T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-29T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Halsway Manor

Friday 27 Jun 4pm — Sunday 29 Jun 4pm, 2025

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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):

£330 – single occupancy ensuite room/cabin
£285 – sharing an ensuite room/cabin
£285 – single occupancy non-ensuite room
£225 – sharing non-ensuite room

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

£215

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

£200

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.

Nancy Kerr and James Fagan return for their incredibly popular workshop weekend, aimed at enhancing each participant’s confidence and enjoyment of performance. Nancy and James create a very warm, open and safe environment in which musicians of all abilities find inspiration to both share and learn.

Combining large group workshops with more intimate, special-interest classes, Nancy and James will aim to explore harmony singing and song and instrumental arrangement for small ensembles and larger groups.

There will be more opportunity for discussion of specific issues relating to public performance, with individual participants invited to share their experiences with the tutors and the group, though one-to-one sessions won’t be available.

The course will build on participants’ existing skills and technique, and introduce new repertoire.

There will be an ‘Over To You’ informal performance on Saturday night for everyone to share what they’ve been working on with other members of the group.

Who is it for?

Musicians, singers, and singer-musicians of all level of experience welcome (except complete beginners). There won’t be instrument-specific tuition; you’ll need to be comfortable getting involved at whatever level you can play. Diatonic instruments are very welcome.

Participants don’t need to be able to read music or learn by ear, as both options will be available during the workshops, and you won’t need to prepare anything in advance.

This will be the fourth time that James and Nancy have run this weekend at Halsway; the course content remains similar to previous years but naturally the teaching material used will be all-new, so return participants will be very welcome.

The Team

Nancy Kerr is one of the most celebrated English folk musicians of her generation, and a winner of 6 Folk Awards from BBC Radio 2 including Folk Singer of the Year, Best Album and Best Duo (with James Fagan).

James Fagan is an Australian-born folk musician. He is a singer and multi-instrumentalist specialising in the Irish bouzouki. From the early 1980s he toured in a family band, the Fagans. He began travelling to England in 1995, where he met and began working with Nancy Kerr.

Nancy Kerr and James Fagan have been performing together for more than twenty years. Their trademark high-energy live shows are as strong now as ever.

Unless otherwise specified, our midweek courses check-in from 4pm on a Monday and check out by 10am on Friday, and our weekend courses check in from 4pm on a Friday and depart on Sunday by 4pm. Dinner on the first night is usually at 6.30pm, and in general, no formal teaching or introductory sessions take place until after this.

Enjoy the area, bring a friend, share a room, & save money

You can book on a course at Halsway and bring a friend who can explore the area while using Halsway as a base for meals and accommodation. Halsway Manor is in the Quantock Hills (England’s first designated National Landscape (formally AONB). We’re just minutes away from the West Somerset Railway (Britain's longest steam railway), a short drive or bus ride from Somerset’s Jurassic coast (ideal for fossil hunting), and surrounded by dramatic scenery and changing landscapes, from the wild hills of Exmoor to the flat expanse of the Somerset Levels.