Name: Splatterfest 2026!!!
Start: 2026-05-29T14:15:00+10:00
End: 2026-05-31T13:45:00+10:00
Location: Canberra, ACT

Early Music Weekend with Apeiron Baroque.
Play a bit, listen a bit, play a bit, dance a bit, play a bit more... a weekend of just playing music together as a community whilst learning a bit about our approach to Baroque Music. It isn't the stuffy old music that you might remember...
30/31 May in Canberra!
https://apeiron-baroque.com/concerts/2026/2026-splatter-1

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SCHEDULE
30th May
Registration/Welcome (830-900)
Playing Session A (900-1130)
Single Large Ensemble with John Ma (@415/440Hz)
Workshop Session A (1200-1300)
Keyboards: Introduction to Continuo with Marie Searles
Strings: Baroque String techniques and QA with John Ma
Winds: Wind/Recorder (Form, Texture and Style) Robyn Mellor
Lunch (1300-1400)
Playing Session B (Split groups, 1400-1630)
Wind group @440Hz with Robyn Mellor
Everyone else @415Hz (or 440Hz transposed parts) with John Ma
Workshops Session B (1700-1800)
Keyboards: Continuo in a Violin sonata with Marie Searles and John Ma.
Strings: Madder and the Baroque Violin with Hugh Withycombe and Michal Prokop.
Winds: Musettes and Racketts with Simon Rickard
Evening Open Mic (John and Marie on continuo duty!)
Optional (and free) relaxed session of just playing stuff with us (or without us!).

31st May
Baroque Dance workshop with Simon Rickard (1100-1300)
Playing Session C (1400-1600)
Wind group @440Hz with Robyn Mellor
Everyone else @415Hz (or 440Hz transposed parts) with John Ma
Open Presentation/Last Bash (1630-1730)
The final chaos with John Ma.