• An Annual Festival incorporating the contest, workshops, open mike, jams, and the AGM, usually held in October.
• A Spring Festival or Hoolie similar to the festival but with a greater opportunity for everyone to perform. A relaxed event where players of all levels and styles can mix, talk and play.
• A Blue Saturday is an occasional event consisting of a structured day of blues tuition followed by an evening of playing with a live band.
• A Chromatic Weekend has been held since 2006. The is a two day event designed to support and advance the playing of chromatic harmonicas by providing a series of organised workshops run by experienced and often professional players.
• Local area events are organised and run by NHL members. They are more informal events with an emphasis on playing, local networking and an exchange of information and help. If you would like to do one please contact us.

Where possible, items in the Diary are linked to more detailed information on other pages.

The Friends of the NHL section of the web site contains web pages with information on the leading artists which support the activities of the NHL by supporting our events and contributing to Harmonica World, our magazine. Artists like Harry Pitch, Lee Sankey, Brendan Power, Adam Glasser etc - biographies, recordings, gigs ....

The Harmonica Gig Guide is a page where you can find links to where you can see the leading players at work.

Venues where you can watch, learn or take part in open gigs and jam sessions are collected on the Jams page in regional groupings.

Venues where you might be able to see harmonica music of any type will be collected on a regional basis and published on a page which is yet to be written.

Please let us know of any other types of events we ought to add to this list

NHL denotes an NHL event.

• 5 - 7 March 2010- Acoustic Blues Weekend - The Artrix, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK - Alan Glen harp tutor - Euroblues Promotions Limited.

• 12,13 March, 2010 - The Virginia Harmonicafest '10, Williamsburg, VA, USA. Sponsored by Cardinal State Harmonica Club, Capitol Harmonica Club, and Harmonica Plus of Newport News. For info email Tom at: harpplayer1@verizon.net

• 21 March, 2010 - Harmonica Convergence - Sunday - 7:00pm - Old Town School Of Folk Music, 4544 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 USA. An amazing gathering of the who's who of harmonica in a tribute to blues harp legend Norton Buffalo - featuring: Corky Siegel, Howard Levy, Peter Madcat Ruth, Joe Filisko.

• 29 April to 1 May - Buckeye Harmonica Festival 2010 - Akron, Ohio, USA

• 8 May 2010 - NHL Spring Festival, The Stables, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK17 8LU UK

• 8 - 15 May 2010 - Harmonica meeting under sail in Split, Croatia. Harmonica and guitar workshop, jams every night with teachers on every boat.

• 22 - 23 May 2010 - Hill Country Harmonica - a Mississippi Blues Harp Homecoming: A two day intensive retreat for harmonica students - of all levels - and their friends featuring workshops, jam sessions and concerts with the Legendary Billy Branch, world renown player/teacher Adam Gussow, Terry "harmonica" Bean, Billy Gibson and the list goes on. Free onsite camping and plenty of home cooked american soul food available.

• Maybe 2011 - "Harmonicas sur Cher", St Aignan, Cher, France - Tel: +33 (0)2 54 71 58 03

• 27 - 31 May 2010 - Blues On The Bay, Warren Point, Northern Ireland - 02841752256

• 28 - 30 May 2010 - Willi Burger and Jens Bunge - International Harmonica Festival, Merate (Lecco), Italy.

• 12 - 13 June 2010 - NHL Chromatic Weekend - Alderbrook School, Birmingham, UK. With Adam Glasser, Mat Walklate, David Wright, Barbara Tate, Chris Collis, Gerry Ezard, ..

• No information for 2010 - Highlands Harmonica Festival 2010, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.

• 30 July - 2 Aug 2010 - 8th Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival 2010, Singapore.

• 30 July - 1 August 2010 - Baltic-Nordic Harmonica 2010 in Pärnu, Estonia.

• ? 24 July - 1 August ? 2010 - The Gloucester Blues 2010

• 3 - 8 August 2010 - Steve Baker's European Blues & Roots Masterclass - The venue is the "House of Music" Le Kleebach, Munster, Alsace, the easternmost province of France which borders onto Germany along the Rhine. Robert Koch rok68@free.fr , Tel. +33 608 308659

• ? August 2010 - Blues Week, University of Northampton, UK.

• 17 - 21 August, 2010 - SPAH - Bloomington,MN, USA.

• Cancelled due to illness - 4 Sept 2010 - NHL Sible Hedingham Harmonica Day, The Billiards Club, Sible Hedingham, Essex. Contact Derek Yorke on 01787 460230. Click here for a local map for the event.

• 15 - 19 Sept 2010 - Mundharmonika Live and Blues Competition - Klingenthal, Germany.

• 8-10 October 2010 - Harmoliege - International Festival of Harmonica in Liege, Belgium - contact croch@skynet.be

• ? 18-24 ? October 2010 - Harmonicales - France.

• 29-31 October 2010 - NHL Harmonica Festival, H2010, Bristol, UK.

• 3-7 November 2010 - 6th Harmonica Masters Workshops, run by Steve baker, Trossingen, Germany. Workshop leaders - Steve Baker (diatonic harp), David Barrett (diatonic harp), Joe Filisko (diatonic harp), Eric Noden (guitar), Olivier Ker Ouriou (jazz chromatic)

Roger Trobridge for queries about NHL events.

Please email us if you have not found what you want to know about harmonicas in this web site.

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