Intermediate/Advanced Bagpipe Weekend

Our popular Bagpipe workshop weekend returns in 2027, running alongside the Hurdy Gurdy Weekend, in a frenzy of reeds, drones and buzzing things!

This year’s intermediate/advanced course will be led by Lisa Käuffert. This workshop is aimed at bagpipe players with instruments in G, who already already experience in playing. We are going to learn French dance music by ear, also add some ornamentations and keep the focus on the joy of making nice music together.

Outside the workshops, there will be plenty of opportunity to socialise with the other tutors and participants not in your group.

Want to make a long weekend of your trip? For an extra £65, you can stay until Monday morning, including supper and B&B. Please enquire when booking.

This course runs alongside the Beginner Bagpipe Weekend for those not quite ready for the Intermediate / Advanced course.

Who is it for?

Any players of G bagpipes who consider themselves to be working at an intermediate or advanced level.

The Team

Lisa Käuffert started to play bagpipe with the German Schäferpfeife in her childhood. On her summer vacation to French music festivals, she discovered the Cornemuse Centre France, which soon got her interested in traditional dance music especially from Burgundy and Auvergne. Today, her music is composed of traditional and contemporary melodies from western Europe. She plays in French Balfolk groups and is teaching bagpipe in Alsace.