Welcome to Burwell Bash Online

What is the Burwell Bash?

The Burwell Bash is the residential folk music summer school at Burwell House in Cambridgeshire, England. It takes place every summer. The course offers both instrumental and band tuition for players.

Instruments: fiddle, flute/whistle, accordion and guitar/bouzouki etc.

Tutors: Brian Finnegan, Ed Boyd, Liz Doherty, Sam Pirt. Previous tutors have also included: Kathryn Tickell, Catriona Macdonald, Ian Lowthian and Nancy Kerr.

Information about the next summer school can be found on this site, as well as pages of interest to previous course members!

This course has previously been known as the 'Shetland Fiddle, Accordion, Flute and Whistle course', and also the 'Musical Madness' summer school.