Fiddle Fingers
24 Nov 2022
Please see the attached information about 'Fiddle Fingers':
Do you play the violin, viola, cello or double bass?
Come and join
Fiddle Fingers – Ripon’s Youth String orchestra
Fun and challenge for beginners to advanced players in 3 ensembles.
Rehearsals at Holy Trinity Church, Ripon, on Saturday mornings during term time.
If interested please email Janet Nicholas at
jan.nic.fiddles@hotmail.co.uk
or contact via our website at
www.fiddlefingers.co.uk
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Established in 1999 as an end of term get-together for younger players to play Christmas carols, Fiddle Fingers grew very quickly and within a few years was meeting for weekly rehearsals at Holy Trinity Church in Ripon, which has become our home. We have three ensembles, - Starter Strings, Training Strings, and Concert Strings. The emphasis for the Starter Strings group is learning through games (favourites being the slow bow race, note murder, polos on bow tips, and ping pong scales), as well as easy pieces. Players progress into the higher standard groups when they are ready, but our ethos is that many of our advanced players remain in the early group as helpers/tutors. This has brought benefits to both younger and older learners alike.
At Fiddle Fingers, we pride ourselves on our community spirit; we feel like one big family. This has led to many of our members forming smaller groups and growing their own ensembles, leading to successful performances across the region.
We are also very pleased to be supporting our members in their Duke of Edinburgh awards, as some members of our Concert Strings and Training Strings ensembles use the tutoring experience with the junior ensemble as their volunteering work for the 'DofE' awards.
