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Katy Ashman

@katyashman.bsky.social
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Musician | Half of thewanderingwinds.com with @milesbsn.bsky.social | /|\ Listening Journeys & #guidl creator | Passionate Venetophile

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Mark Eames @markofclubs.bsky.social · 6h
…more from Liberty Alice during their first gig outside of Beats & Treats😇 We’re on stage again Friday evening 2nd October at Laycock Cider Barn, Purse Caundle DT9 5DY (free admission however bring cash or card for the bar and pizza)🍕🎵🍺 @katyashman.bsky.social
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 21h
Today we cross the Apennines!
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Romans innit.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@milesbsn.bsky.social and I aren't tuning in to Strictly this year, and instead of the Saturday evening requirement to clap on beats 2 and 4, we're carrying on with #AperitivosAndArias Currently prepping an innocent-looking cocktail to accompany a rerun from the Met from way back in 2020...blimey🍾🎶🏛️
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Enjoy it M&G - you'll totally rock it!
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's been fun working on this music & am absolutely over the moon to have sold a few already! Always a strange moment when you hit publish & they go into the void!🕯️✨ Thanks to music lovers in the UK & US for supporting us (so far), & of course diolch to @milesbsn.bsky.social for the proof reads!
Practical Magic sheet music under 3 green witch oracle cards. Two candles, rosemary sprigs and a small china bowl of rock salt. Practical Magic sheet music under 3 green witch oracle cards. One tealight, rosemary sprigs and a stem of dried purple larkspur.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is very much in my wellhouse 💧 Penmon Priory crosses, St Seiriol’s Well, Penmon Point, then on to Din Sylwy in search of another well, then a yomp up Bwrdd Arthur to the trig point, and collected sloes along the way. 🌿 Lots of listening, wandering and well... research 😉
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A MOST PARTICULAR INVITATION You are cordially invited to Bath. There will be: Love. Society. Secrets. And, quite possibly, someone saying something they ought not. Jane Austen's Bath: Love, Society & Secrets 💌 🪭 🤫 Only with the @guidltours.bsky.social app
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When I said no-one wanted to see it... 🤣 @milesbsn.bsky.social I think we could take this to our next gig...
A Regency couple, the lady in a long blue empire line dress, the man in dark tailed overcoat, cane and top hat. Probably in Bath.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The bassoon 4tet of #EmilyInParis that we’ve just arranged/published is one of the funnest things I’ve worked on in recent months…I just need to persuade @milesbsn.bsky.social to record it 😇 (too many notes for me!) 🇫🇷🥐☕️🛍️
A score for three bassoons and contrabassoons with an unorthodox tempo marking
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No one is ready to see the Regency Wandering Winds…am I right? 😅 @milesbsn.bsky.social rocks a top hat though, better than I do a bonnet… full reveal soon! 🎩👒
Microphone in front of laptop screen
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Laurence is coming to Beaumaris on Sat 22nd August ☀️ It will be a gorgeous day to hear some beautiful music - either 3pm and 7pm - (or book for both!) at St Mary's and St Nicholas's Church wyldebritain.com #NorthWales #WyldeBritain #Bassoon #Beaumaris
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Wylde Britain
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
And breathe.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Fantastic 🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Got a lovely woodwind trio going on for this work in progress and am considering both tempo markings to be honest…
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Going back to iTunes for a bit (old school perhaps, but...) and all the music I've already bought and stored albeit forgotten on a hard drive... so many recordings I rushed to add to the library on first listen, discovering them again is weird, but lovely. This is particularly joyous!
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@milesbsn.bsky.social will 💚 this because…the Maestro of the music from these childrens programmes we love…notably Ivor the Engine (particularly bassoony of course) and the Clangers, was Miles’s bassoon teacher at one point (I love shouting about this incase you hadn’t guessed) 😊🙌🧡
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
To everyone who has spent the last two weeks (that have felt like two months) navigating systems and IT labyrinths…May your passwords finally work, may your inbox grow quiet…and may the weekend bring no further ‘we’ve identified another issue…’ emails. Cheers to that.
A negroni in front of a TV showing the horrible histories ‘orrible opera showing the composer Verdi
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Venice has ruined us slightly. Every time we hear church bells now, we instinctively wonder where the nearest Rio/Canal is.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
At what point in our evolution did we start having nightmares and what point do they serve? I’ve always had distressing nightmares but I’ve just woken from one so bad I feel physically ill 🤢🤮 Why on earth did my mind conjure it up and where did it come from?!? They always start as normal dreams too.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
10 years ago today, @milesbsn.bsky.social and I spent a rather extraordinary day travelling around Dorset, giving 17 concerts in 17 churches to raise money for the Dorset Historic Churches Trust. Many of you followed our slightly mad adventure and it remains one of our happiest memories! 🎶
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lovely to pop in to the chapel this evening with @milesbsn.bsky.social It’s a welcoming, well-loved space, and this was the first time I managed a close up look at the well!
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's not often I listen to the OST in full before going to see a movie, but I'm beyond intrigued about The Odyssey. And I love an Aulos!
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just watched our first #FNOTP in a few years, lots of reasons why really...and am not a classical music snob in the least, but Wonderwall was not doing it any favours. Would've loved some of the sus4 harmonies to have been sung... what a waste of those fantastic voices! Lovely Finzi 😍
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@milesbsn.bsky.social and I first came to Venice to celebrate a birthday. We never imagined it would become the city we returned to again and again. This @guidltours.bsky.social audio tour is a love letter to the music, stories and quiet corners that kept calling us back. Here's your invitation 💌👇
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Fantastic stuff 👏🏻🌻🌞 Amazing music and musicians as ever! Thanks for sharing 💚
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In the scheme of random things, I was just thinking…what if someone’s not into birthdays, would they celebrate (for example), their 20,000th day on earth?! Then of course I just had to check…and tomorrow is my 17,000th day. I’m such a weirdo sometimes 🤣
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just leaving this here, and it's only for fun (honest!)...but if you'd told 16-year-old me that one day I'd be imagining curating an Arthurian Britpop festival lineup, I would have been deeply confused. @markofclubs.bsky.social #ArthurPop #NoDragonsWereHarmed
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thanks to everyone who’s bought a copy of the Rivals theme for piano - it’s currently our best seller! 🙌
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today’s the day… (I think de-bugging is going to be the worst bit)! Definitely a case of - if I grow it, @milesbsn.bsky.social cooks it - or in this case, steams it with just a few other ingredients from the garden 👨🏼‍🍳
Two artichoke heads, one ready to pick. Apple tree in the background.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Somehow I don't think Amanda Hughes would go near a bassoon...but we had great fun arranging the theme for 3 bassoons + contra! Available #SheetMusicPlus & #SheetMusicDirect if you want some short and sweet bassoonery fun! 🥂
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
We had a lot of fun arranging the Amandaland theme for 2flutes, clarinet & bass clarinet….and…it is epic for bassoon 4tet too (3bsns+contra)! Both available at sheetmusicplus.com & sheetmusicdirect.com ✨🥂🎀
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Amanda Hughes played by Lucy Punch in Blue Sweater
Alt: Amanda Hughes played by Lucy Punch in Blue Sweater
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Have a good one M&G! What a treat (as it says!) for anyone in the area 🎶
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Awww, how did Dorset Day pass me by this year?! 😭
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thrilled that @welshnatopera.bsky.social are bringing Bartok & Stravinsky to Venue Cymru in the Autumn, so much so that @milesbsn.bsky.social and I have just booked our tix 🎭 wno.org.uk/whats-on/bc-... #Llandudno
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Bluebeard’s Castle + Oedipus Rex Bartok + Stravinsky
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Day 2. Tarot, Tristan & Tori. 💚
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Having an out of body experience, I think!
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Day 1 and another trip to Milan has been a blast. Tomorrow is bucket list material for me, with Tori Amos in concert 😭🤘🏻🌞 and I’ve planned an excursion for the morning to pass the waiting time 🃏 @milesbsn.bsky.social is the best! #EveryPictureTellsAStory
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Glad we’re not rushing through Malpensa today so’s we can look at the finds! Lovely unplanned precursor to other exhibitions we’re looking at this week as well! 💚🤍❤️
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Unintended, but it would’ve been my lovely Nan’s birthday today. She kinda inspired this one! substack.com/@katyashman/...
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Postcards and Personal Journeys
How Other People’s Journeys Became Part of Mine
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🎧 Cannot wait to see Tori live next week with the new album out today 💚 although my midlife self is nervous about the presence of my teenage self …
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Supporting local and live! Have a good one 🤩
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Exasperated with the visa application systems! I liken it to the ‘can’t get a job without experience but need experience to get the job’ scenario. A catch 22 and I can’t solve it! I’m not one to give up lightly but…I’m throwing in the towel on it this time! 😣
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
⌛https://open.substack.com/pub/katyashman/p/why-the-one-hour-concert-feels-like?r=264pdw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Why the One-Hour Concert Feels Like a Gift
What some concert planners (mis)understand about time, cost, and audience care.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
⚠️ Proceed at your own risk: may change the plan halfway through. 🤣
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New today 🎼 If you can’t wait for #Rivals Series 2 next month…here’s a little musical distraction: The Rivals opening theme for 🎹 piano 🪈 flute & bassoon arranged by @milesbsn.bsky.social & me! Now available on Sheet Music Direct✨
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wordle 1,758 3/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Doesn’t happen often these days! Interestingly, @milesbsn.bsky.social - the Venetian word for it has been uttered several times at home this weekend 😊
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Had a conversation today about getting tuning forks through airport security… Apparently it’s fine, as long as you’re not carrying bad vibrations. #SoundHealing 🫠
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Bergamo Baby! Counting the days with @milesbsn.bsky.social Recommendations welcome, although this is on the cards (see what I did there…) lacarrara.it/en/mostra/ta... 🃏
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TAROT Origins, Cards, Fortunes - Accademia Carrara
From the luxury of Renaissance courts to contemporary creativity, a journey spanning seven centuries through the history of tarot.
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Katy Ashman @katyashman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If you have a moment for quiet, these notes from Venice’s gardens might be worth a pause...And if you’ve spent time in Venice, I’d be so interested to hear about the quieter corners you’ve discovered there 🪴 Gardens Against the Water: notes from Venice. substack.com/@katyashman/...
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Gardens Against the Water: notes from Venice.
When the wisteria first comes into bloom in Venice, we know that our own small, twisted stem – curling itself around the corner of our courtyard at home in North Wales – will follow, about two weeks b...
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