Krajania – fujaristi v USA a Kanade: príďte na kurz do Marylandu!

Trvanie:	01.07.2017
Miesto:	Maryland
Mesto/obec:	Westminster
Štát:	USA

Zo Spojených štátov sa ozval s priam ohromujúcou ponukou a zároveň aj výzvou pre všetkých našich krajanov žijúcich v USA a Kanade, ale aj v iných končinách sveta, Bohuslav „Bob“ Rychlik. Radi jeho mail zverejňujeme aj s nádejou, že osloví folkloristov, najmä tých, ktorí sa spriatelili s jedným z najočarujúcejších hudobných nástrojov – fujarou. Do pozornosti dávame aj informáciu, že pre fujaristov organizuje už v júli tohto roku zaujímavé podujatie.

„V tomto roku organizujem už piaty ročník týždenný kurz výučby hry na fujare a koncovke. Aj keď tieto krásne nástroje sú pre väčšinu ľudí v USA a Kanade neznáme, s vášňou a veľkým zanietením organizujeme tento kurz a touto cestou dávam vedieť o ňou všetkým potenciálnym záujemcom. V kurze pôsobím ako jeden z mnohých učiteľov hry na ľudové hudobné nástroje. Kurz organizuje v júli 2017 nezisková organizácia Common Ground on the Hill v internáte vysokej školy McDaniel College v mestečku Westminster v štáte Maryland.“

Bob Rychlik

6609 Runkles Rd
Mount Airy, MD 21771
USA
tel. 301 829 1202
fujara@gmail.com

Hi, I am writing to you because we are both members of large Czech and Slovak community.

As you probably know, I have fallen in love with unique voice of Slovak fujara, and koncovka flutes, and for past 17 years have been on a mission to bring that music to USA, and besides performing at numerous places and festivals, I have been teaching both fujara and koncovka since 2013 at a 5 days course which is part of music and art program every July at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland.

http://www.commongroundonthehill.org/twhome.html [1]

This course is not available anywhere else in the country or even whole American continent, so in the past I had students coming for the class from as far as Wisconsin, and Florida, but there have been only two students of Czech or Slovak origins from this area!

The problem is, that our community is split into small groups who often don't communicate much with each other.

Would you help me, please?

http://www.commongroundonthehill.org/2016-trad-wk-home.html [2]

Traditions Week 2, July 3-8, 1:00 PM

http://www.commongroundonthehill.org/2016tradwk2-music.html#wind [3]

Please read it and consider learning one or both of those easy to play and beautiful instruments yourself, or forward it to others who might be interested.

This year I need to fill minimum of 6 students in Beginner class (no knowledge or experience with any music instrument is necessary), and still have 4 openings. The beginner class starts after lunch, so if you are local, you can take just part day off work, and one of the teaching days is holiday (4th of July).

My students love the class, and everybody plays both instruments and later in the week can decide to concentrate on either fujara, or koncovka, or both. Everybody can play simple melodies at the end, and for the past 2 years, my students were with me on stage at Friday night closing concert.

There is no other instrument, which is so easy to play with so few side holes (fujara only 3, and koncovka none!), you only need to blow into it with a different levels of breath.

Both instruments are also great for intuitive playing, just siting or standing on quiet evening and just play couple tones and make your own music. Or, you can learn easy Slovak or Czech melodies and play for you family, or you friends. In Slovakia or Czech republic both instruments are played mostly by males, but in the USA it is just opposite, more then half of my students are females, and even in Slovakia that is changing now. All ages are welcome, if you can breathe, you can play.

I'll attach an article about my last year class, with a video:

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/westminster/ph-cc-overtone-flute-20160708-story.html
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