Diatonic accordeon for beginners – Wouter Kuyper
An introduction
Always wanted to play the accordion? Here’s your chance! Wouter will start working with beginners’ accordions. The instrument will be discovered with the pleasure of playing being paramount. This group is intended for beginning players. Course content consists of technique and maintenance of the instrument, fingerings and bellows technique. All this is based on some simple melodies.
No instrument? No problem! A number of accordions can be borrowed. These instruments are provided to us by Berend Kok Accordeons.
Level of playing
None, this workshop is for beginners
About Wouter Kuyper
‘I was born musically in Gooik’
At the age of 10, his parents took Wouter to Gooikoorts in Gooik (Belgium) for the first time. There he was introduced to folk music, and he developed an addiction that has not gone away to this day. Wouter has been dancing Bal Folk since his first visit to Gooik and started playing the bagpipes at the age of eleven.
At the age of fifteen, he added the accordion. From the age of seventeen, he played in his first band. Regular visits to other festivals and workshops (Saint Chartier, Schier, etc.) kept the fire going. He makes no secret of why he was inspired by old Flemish, French and Dutch dance music: ‘I love balfolk, I love dancing, the festivals like in St Chartier and Gooik. The choice for balfolk repertoire is easily made.’
After his education in a completely different direction (biogeology, communication and education direction) he started working full-time with music. Now he teaches and plays in different bands and music groups, such as Androneda, Wouter en de Draak and BmB
- Wouter en de Draak – He’pter
- Wouter en de Draak – Werkelijk waar
- Wouter en de Draak – New Horizons, New adventures
- Wouter en de Draak – Gavotte de l’Aven
- Wouter en de Draak – Zon op de Glijbaan
- BmB – L’Impasse
- BmB – Dejeuner sur l’herbe
- BmB – highlights premiere op cadansa
- Androneda – Midzomercirkel
- Androneda – Androneda