Pitchfolk 2026
Schedule
Fri, 17 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Sun, 19 Jul, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Quaker meeting house, Street | Street, EN
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Pitchfolk is a weekend of song, feasting and friendship, featuring workshops of polyphonic music from around the world, led by renowned choir leaders and educators who are expert in those traditions. The weekend is open to anyone who is interested to explore their voice and learn songs from around the world.For the fifth Pitchfolk weekend our expert workshop leaders will be teaching polyphonic songs from three radically different traditions, each of which has been recognised by UNESCO as a treasure of intangible heritage. We'll be exploring the polyphonic songs of the Baka people of the Cameroonian rainforests, Swiss folk songs, and songs from the West of Georgia.
Although these unique and highly distinctive traditions come from separate continents, they nonetheless share a common thread, as each features a different style of yodelling.
Yodelling is simply a rapid switching between our usual 'chest voice' and falsetto, or 'head voice', and is a great way to experiment with this aspect of our voices, and better understand how these registers work, and what they are capable of – knowledge and experience that will be useful, whatever music you generally sing. There will, of course, be plenty of non yodelling parts to sing. But for those who want to give the yodelling a go, it's going to be fascinating, and a lot of fun, to contrast and compare the ways in which these very different cultures use it to ornament the underlying harmonies.
As well as the singing workshops we'll have, as always, storytelling, informal singing sessions, and our Saturday night feast, with performances from the floor. And once again we'll have a question and answer panel session with our workshop leaders, which proved so interesting and popular last year.
'Superb workshop leaders, variety of workshop content, effortless community building through singing together, potential for developing into a jewel of a festival, embodying the best of small and local.'
'I enjoyed learning about different singing techniques. Great teachers. Great ambience.'
'A joyous and uplifting weekend... I absolutely loved it!'
'The joyousness of singing that music and dancing was wonderful.'
'Singing, camping, fellowship."
'The small numbers made it intimate... I liked the eastern European songs especially.'
'Totally superb weekend of singing...can't wait for next year.'
Ticket prices
£175/145/105 weekend (workshops, lunch and evening meals, and feast on Saturday evening)
£105/90/80 Saturday (workshops, lunch and evening feast)
£75/65/55 Saturday daytime (workshops and lunch only)
£20/15/12 individual workshop (Friday evening or Saturday morning)
£30/25 Saturday evening feast (subject to availability)
50% Youth Discount, ages 14-21
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Where is it happening?
Quaker meeting house, Street, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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