One of the benefits of membership to NWEMF is receipt of the newsletter, which is distributed to members at five points throughout the year. Each newsletter gives advance warning of upcoming workshops and events, and can be invaluable for booking a place for those events which have limited space. If you have forgotten the password for our members’ area, please contact us.
You can here access our digital newsletters that are at least one year old going back to 2011. Before this, NWEMF newsletters were printed, and we are currently working on a project to upload an archive of all workshop reviews from the printed newsletters, going back to NWEMF’s inception in 1977.
Click here to access past online Newsletters 2011-present
2025
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2014
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2013
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You will also find below details of early music articles and other items of interest which have appeared from time to time over the years, both online and in the printed newsletters.
In June 2024, we sent out our first NWEMF Digest, a regular short email sent out to members and mailing list subscribers in addition to the full Newsletter. The NWEMF Digest includes brief reports of past workshops and details of upcoming workshops, as well as other concerts and events of interest in the North West and surrounding regions. If you’re not yet a member and don’t want to miss out, you can join our mailing list here.
Articles and non-NWEMF reviews
2020-present
| Nov 2026 | Treasurer’s update November 2026 – new bank account and online payments |
| Nov 2026 | How I came to early music and discovered NWEMF (Elizabeth Dodd) |
| Nov 2026 | Joan Wess Education Fund – Summer Adventures (Bryan Au Yeung) |
| Sept 2026 | Early Music Summer School, Higham Hall 8-14 August 2026 (Anna Wetherell) |
| Sept 2026 | Saltaire Recorder Weekend 2026 (Ann Barkway, Early Music Shop) |
| Sept 2026 | How I discovered early music (Amber Moeller) |
| Sept 2026 | How I found early music (it found me, really) (Vincent Walsh) |
| Sept 2026 | How I discovered Early Music (Mark Flinn) |
| Sept 2026 | Bruno Turner remembered (Clive Walkley) |
| Sept 2026 | Local, voluntary and small: what a few enthusiasts can achieve (Alison McLeod, Silverdale Renaissance) |
| June 2026 | How I discovered Early Music (Andrew Mayes) |
| Apr 2026 | How I discovered Early Music and found NWEMF (John Huthnance) |
| Feb 2026 | My entry into the World of Early Music (Clive Walkley) |
| Feb 2026 | How I came to early music (Janet Evans) |
| Feb 2026 | My introduction to early music (Tim Gannicliffe) |
| Nov 2025 | Concert review – Breaking the Rules: the extraordinary life and music of Gesualdo by The Telling (Kirsten Flores) |
| Nov 2025 | My route into early music (Roger Wilkes) |
| Nov 2025 | CD Review – Ricordanze: a record of love by Musica Secreta (Andrew Benson-Wilson) |
| Nov 2025 | NWEMF Viols at the University of Liverpool (Lisa Colton) |
| Sept 2025 | Cornamuse or rebec? (Peter Syrus) |
| Sept 2025 | A timeline of early music composers (Kirsten Flores) |
| Sept 2025 | Realising All the Musical Instruments of The Famous Luttrell Psalter (Peter Barnard, de Mowbray’s Musicke) |
| June 2025 | Workshop review Dowland in the Dales 6-8 June 2025 (Kirsten Flores) |
| Feb 2025 | Joan Wess Educational Fund – Natalie Summers |
| Nov 2023 | Joan Wess Educational Fund – Kira Thomas |
| Nov 2022 | Book Review – Musical Moments and other Sundry Musings by Jill Mitchell (Tim Gannicliffe) |
| Oct 2021 | Workshop review Introduction to Early Dance 3 October 2021 (by Sue Wilkinson) |
| Apr 2021 | Book Review – Juan Esquivel: A Master of Sacred Music during the Spanish Golden Age by Clive Walkley (Roger Wilkes) |
| Apr 2020 | Top Ten Tips to keep your voice going during a pandemic! (Deborah Catterall) |
| Apr 2020 | Covid Implications (Roger Wilkes) |
2010-2019
| Nov 2018 | When David Heard (Jill Mitchell) |
| Sept 2018 | Thanking two former Committee Members (Roger Wilkes) |
| Apr 2017 | Large Lutes (Hugh Cherry) |
| Feb 2015 | Viols for children (Elizabeth Dodd) |
| Feb 2014 | A Brief Guide to Reading Music from Facsimile (Anne Clements) |
| Feb 2010 | Congratulations to Andrew Mayes, NWEMF Vice President |
2000-2009
| June 2009 | A Man’s reach – A Poem (Jill Mitchell) |
| June 2009 | Getting the balance right (Roger Wilkes) – a response to David Allen’s article |
| Apr 2009 | Of Practice and Musicians (David Allen) |
| Apr 2009 | Praetorius Limerick (Anne Clements) |
| Oct 2008 | Musical Poetry (Roger Wilkes with poem by Malcolm Bell) |
| June 2008 | All hands to the pump (Roger Wilkes) |
| Oct 2007 | Workshop Review Renaissance consort singing workshop in Languedoc (Nicky Brooks) |
| June 2007 | Cartoon |
| Feb 2007 | A Limerick to encourage new Committee members (Anne Clements) |
| Feb 2007 | 2007 Summer School Changes (Roger Wilkes) |
1990-1999
| Dec 1991 | Early Music? What is it? Why is it? (John Austin) |
