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Aortas AORTAS (www.aortas.org.uk) supports & promotes original songwriting & the traditional musics of the
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AORTAS (Oral Traditions and Songwriting) is an umbrella for the activities of Dan Plews (teacher, performer and songwriter) including his work with other musicians. This includes sessions, ceilidhs, songwriting workshops (UK, Austria, Romania, Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Slovenia), private teaching and open mics for songwriters, which we've run in different venues in Northampton, Buckingham

and Milton Keynes since 2007 (or even earlier, we can't remember).

2011 saw the formation of the pan-european GRUNDTVIG-funded partnership 'Playing for Integration' and Aortas Education Ltd was founded. Through this partnership with eight other countries AORTAS took UK learners to workshops in 8 different countries. The focus of the workshops was intercultural exchange, writing songs, and the translation of traditional songs from different countries. The process is the product, but we have also produced two songbooks of original and traditional songs which are at www.aortas.org.uk

April 2013 saw heats for a Song Competition whose winners played a sell-out concert at the Stables in Milton Keynes in October 2013, three of whom participated in a workshop with our Danish partners the Aarhus Sangskriver Werkstat, a 120-strong songwriting organisation from that town. The winner was Jimmy Brewer
http://www.jimmybrewer.co.uk/
https://smithandbrewer.com/

28/05/2024

Is Jeremy Corbyn standing in Northampton?
Asking for almost all of Northampton.

I am wondering what colour lippy to wear to the Aortas 3rd Monday Songsquare & Open Mic @ the Garibaldi Hotel tonight. I...
15/04/2024

I am wondering what colour lippy to wear to the Aortas 3rd Monday Songsquare & Open Mic @ the Garibaldi Hotel tonight. It'll be the usual powder blue eyeshadow and feline-swish mascara, of course. Get all my makeup tips and tricks from that Tik-Tof.

09/04/2024

Ignore the 'insta-merge' post, this is great content and news for travelling songwriters! x

21/02/2024

Flashback to New Bedford Folk Festival '22 and our encounter with the future.

True words are rare birds.Taken from an Aortas website blogpost, New Year 2020.".......the policy of the Right is, and h...
02/01/2024

True words are rare birds.
Taken from an Aortas website blogpost, New Year 2020.

".......the policy of the Right is, and has always been:

defund, demoralise, disable, and then dispense with public service responsibilities, opening them to profit, to the ultimate impoverishment/cost of the taxpayer.

And this, too, seems to be popular with the electorate, which returned Tories to both local constituencies and the PCC, despite that Party simultaneously managing to bankrupt the town council (repeatedly), have a local PCC found guilty of misconduct in public office, have a local MP step down due to his part in a corruption scandal that saw a publicly-funded £10m loan to the local football club disappear, and do this while cutting local services to the bone......
The governing Party enjoyed roughly 10m popular vote; despite the fact that Labour, the LibDems, the Greens and the SNP enjoyed more than 14m votes between them, they have far fewer than half the seats. This is not Democracy, this is a rigged contest that only electoral reform will ever fix."
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I now appear to be on a recently-calved south-heading ice floe surrounded by smug idiots regretfully turning up their patio heaters.

10/12/2023

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AORTAS is short for 'Association for Oral Traditions and Songwriting' - Aortas Education Limited was a legal entity between 2011-2019 formed as an umbrella for the activities of Dan Plews (teacher, performer and songwriter) including his work with other musicians. This includes sessions, ceilidhs, songwriting workshops (UK, Austria, Romania, Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Slovenia), private teaching and multiple weekly open mics for songwriters in Milton Keynes between 2010 and 2018. 2011 saw the formation of the pan-european GRUNDTVIG-funded partnership 'Playing for Integration'. Through this partnership with eight other countries AORTAS took UK learners to workshops in 7 different countries. The focus of the workshops was intercultural exchange, writing songs, and the translation of traditional songs from different countries. The process is the product, but we have also produced two songbooks of original and traditional songs which are at www.aortas.org.uk April 2013 saw heats for a Song Competition whose winners played a sell-out concert at the Stables in Milton Keynes in October 2013, three of whom then participated in a workshop with our Danish partners the Aarhus Sangskriver Werkstat, a 120-strong songwriting organisation from that town. Every year since, between four and 8 songwriters from the Northampton/Milton Keynes area have visited Denmark for a four-day workshop. As well as teaching songwriting, music industry and assorted other subjects at Northampton College, as Aortas his clients and partners have included the Universities of Northampton (2019) and Exeter (2018/19) and NERC (2018/19).

2019 was a fallow year for public songwriting workshops but 2020 may not be. Join the mailing list for updates using the ‘signup’ button or visit www.aortas.org.uk