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Course weekend 18 – 21 April 2025

Celebrating 40 years of St. draailier & doedelzak

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This is an annual folk weekend in the woods of Sint-Michielsgestel (near Den Bosch). It offers a choice of many workshops, such as for hurdy-gurdy, singing, diatonic accordion, bagpipes, nyckelharpa and ensemble playing. There are workshops for beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Always a fun weekend, with workshops during the day and concerts, balls and jam sessions in the evening.

This year it will be a very special edition because we will celebrate 40 years of the Dutch Hurdy-gurdy & Bagpipe Foundation (Stichting Draailier & Doedelzak)! In order to celebrate all those years thoroughly, we are planning the workshop weekend with Easter: so this year we will adding an extra day to the weekend. Will you join us? We are celebrating all these years with lots of beautiful music: we have planned beautiful concerts and put together a great workshop program!

workshopweekend

The Plan:

Participants are welcome from Friday evening the 18th April. This evening there will be sessions, balls and concerts
The workshops start on Saturday 19th of April at 9:30 and last until Monday 21th of April (Easter Monday) at 15:00.

There will be workshops during the day, on Friday and Saturday evening there will be music and jam sessions from 20:00. For the jam sessions you can already download some session repertoire

There will be 11 workshops for hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, accordion, nyckelharpa, singing and two ensemble groups for all instruments.

The Courses:

Registrations

Go to the registration form

The costs of this weekend

The costs of this weekend includes off course the stay at the location (4-6 person rooms for Saturday to sunday) and breakfast, lunch, diner and coffee and tea during breaks. In the Netherlands, breakfast and lunch consists of bread, the diner is warm meal. The price list for the upcoming course weekend is as following:

  • All courses: 240 eu (230 euro if paid in 7 days) (until 1 April)
  • Guests (no workshop participation): 180 eu (170 euro if paid in 7 days) (until 1 April)
  • “Balfolk & Bed”: evening program + bed & breakfast: 72 eu for Friday eve
  • Kids 2-12 years (without courses): 160 eu
  • Kids 0-2 years : –
  • Arrival on Friday (incl evening program): 15 eu
  • Rental bed sheets: 16 euro

Don’t wait too long to register: form the 1st of january 2025 our prices has to increase with 20% due to new regulations / laws

The location

The adress is:
De Zonnewende
Esscheweg 78
5271 NA Sint-Michielsgestel
Netherlands

For more information about your stay and a glance at the rooms, take a look at this page

Impressions of earlier editions