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September 3-7, 2025

The 13th Annual Indiana Hurdy-Gurdy Workshop is happening again this year at the beautiful Waycross Camp and Conference Center in scenic Brown County, Indiana! Learning and playing for amateurs to professionals will take place alongside other enthusiasts in a relaxed atmosphere with renowned teachers and performers. This is an intensive workshop aimed at developing and improving music skills and technique, and providing the knowledge you will need to successfully maintain and play your Hurdy Gurdy now and into the future. We are proud to partner with the nonprofit Bloomington Early Music to bring you the workshop.

Registration is now open! To register, please click here.

Questions? Contact us at hurdygurdyworkshop@gmail.com

If you can’t make it to the festival, why not check out The Secret World of the Hurdy-Gurdy Field Notes On Playing. It’s an opportunity to engage with the minds of your peers and mentors. The book features writing and interviews with over 30 highly respected international players, including names you’ll undoubtedly recognise: Bruno Andersen, Patrick Bouffard, Nicolas Boulerice, Quentin Budworth, Gilles Chabenat, Germán Díaz, Oscar Fernandez, Matthias Loibner, Michalina Malisz, Isabelle Pignol, Benoît Roblin, Steve Tyler, Pablo Caamiña Ursusson, Mary Vanhoozer, and many more. This line-up promises a rich and varied exploration of the instrument.

Absolutely delighted to be invited by Noelle and Max from GurdyWorld to be a guest on their first podcast, talking about all things Gurdy and the new book. Here’s the link

Knowledge is power. This book will delight, enthuse, enlighten and inspire even the most experienced hurdy-gurdy player bringing more power to every reader’s music-making.

The book features writing and interviews with the following players:
Bruno Andersen; Patrick Bouffard; Nicolas Boulerice; Quentin Budworth; Gilles Chabenat; Germán Díaz; Oscar Fernandez; Abel Garcia; Sergio Gonzales; Stephan Groth; Thomas Hoste; Peter Kanssen; Nicolas Koch Simms; Nicholas Konradsen; Matthias Loibner; Michalina Malisz; Scott Marshall; Rafa Martin; Christian Mohr Levisen; Ruben Monteiro; Ariel Ninas; Sam Palmer; Isabelle Pignol; Etienne Pinoteau; Benoît Roblin; Clare Rose; R.T Taylor; Paul Sherwood; Steve Tyler; Pablo Caamiña Ursusson; Mary Vanhoozer and Alex Zwingmann.

The wheel is infinite, and life is short. Take time to stand on the shoulders of giants and enter the secret world of the hurdy-gurdy. The insights contained in this book will make you a much better hurdy-gurdy player and musician.

By ordering the book directly from the author, you enable a few very good things to happen. You increase the royalty paid to the author and reduce Amazon’s royalty on your purchase (60% after printing costs), and you enable me to keep a database of readers for subsequent publications.

By doing this, you also give a billionaire, Jeff Bezos, a little kick in the shin!

To place an order directly, email me at quentinbudworth@yahoo.com with your postal address and preferred payment method (I can accept PayPal or Direct Bank Transfer), and I will forward payment details. The book is printed locally for you, distributed via Amazon KDP, and available directly from the author before the official launch date. Share this:

Meet Quentin Budworth, a musician living on Skye He is a multi-instrumentalist, a highly skilled performer and composer, specialising in the hurdy-gurdy.