UK Alphorn Network PlayDay 2024
- BBC South Today
Frances Jones set up the UK Alphorn Network and organised the first ever PlayDay for UK alphorn players at Downe House School in Berkshire, June 2024. It was reported on BBC South Today.
UK Alphorn Network PlayDay 2024
- BBC Radio Berkshire
Frances Jones set up the UK Alphorn Network and organised the first ever PlayDay for UK alphorn players at Downe House School in Berkshire, June 2024. She described the event for BBC Radio Berkshire the following day.
Frances at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022
CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW, Royal Horticultural Society. Swiss television reports on the Swiss Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in May 2022, featuring Frances Jones playing the alphorn.
Frances Jones at Fête des Vignerons, 2019, Switzerland
Frances is invited to play with l'Académie Suisse de Cor des Alpes during the FÊTE DES VIGNERONS in Vevey, Switzerland, in July 2019 and is interviewed by Swiss television (RTS).
Frances's AmazingAlphorn played by Bill Bailey
Frances Jones, AmazingAlphorn.com, provides her alphorn for Bill Bailey to play on the Rob Brydon Show, Series 2 Episode 2, BBC2, August 2011.
Amazing Alphorn with cows
What happens when you play an alphorn to cows. Frances, of AmazingAlphorn.com, recreates an ancient Swiss custom. Commentary by David Stafford. Broadcast on Radio 4 'Home Truths' spring 2006. Featuring a herd of beautiful White Park cattle in South Oxfordshire.
Amazing Alphorn plays with 90-year-old French twins
Frances Jones plays Swiss alphorn melodies and shares yodel music with 90-year-old French twins Paul and Louis, Chartreuse mountains in the French Alps.
Amazing Alphorn with Bernese Mountain Dogs
Frances of AmazingAlphorn.com accompanies a display recreating the Swiss tradition of using Bernese Mountain Dogs to pull carts in the Alps. Carting group of the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of Great Britain, Sacrewell Farm and County Centre, Peterborough.
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