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Simonsbath Festival 2014 Tival 2014 Simonsbath Festival 2014 Simonsbath Festival 2014 5 May – 20 June When the world comes to Simonsbath in the of Exmoor SimonsbathDon’t Festival’smiss MAY DAY celebrations Simonsbath Festival celebrates at The Old Pottery MAY DAY Monday 5 May – 2.30pm The Old Pottery in the heart of Simonsbath Simonsbath Festival celebrates May Day with art, dancing, traditional music, songs and stories for all the family: • Children’s art workshops • Storyteller Frances Harrison with her magical tales of Exmoor and beyond • Maypole dancing by local school children • Live music from Ben van Weede and Howard Harrison The art workshops and storytelling will cater for separate age groups (4 to 8 year olds and over 8 year olds): Art workshop (mask making) 2.30pm – 3.30pm for 8 year olds and over 3.30pm – 4.30pm for 4 to 8 year olds Storytelling 2.30pm – 3.15pm for 4 to 8 year olds 3.30pm – 4.30pm for 8 year olds and over 4.45pm – 5.45pm Storytelling for adults and children Maypole dancing 6pm – 6.30pm with live music from Ben van Weede on fiddle and Howard Harrison on guitar. Refreshments and barbecue food available. Admission to the art workshops and storytelling is free – donations are invited to pay for materials and the musicians. For information and bookings please telephone Marian Lloyd on 01643 831451 Simonsbath Festival 5 May – 20 June SimonsbathDon’t Festival’smiss MAY DAY celebrations at The Old Pottery Index: page Phyllida Lloyd Simonsbath and Simonsbath Festival 2 Patron St Luke’s Church 3 Simonsbath Festival Westcombe Brass with local schools 4 Film premiere: ‘How Many People see the Stars as I do?’ 5 A huge amount of will is required to keep Lord Douglas Hurd’s talk 6 community venues alive and humming and Alaudiae vocal trio ‘. a many splendoured thing . ‘ 7 nothing puts more vigour back into them than John Burgess ‘Voices from the Moor’ 8 a festival. The transforming effect of unfamiliar Les Petites Annonces Gypsy Swing band music, songs or stories in a familiar place can be 8 electric and once again the Simonsbath Festival is Moorland Quartet 9 welcoming a huge range of talents on to Exmoor. Tom and Barbara Brown ‘An Exmoor Garland’ 9 Ají Pa’Ti Cuban band 11 In addition to some unmissable sounding world DrumNation drumming workshop with Josh West 11 music – gypsy, Latin American, Hot Club jazz and Victoria Eveleigh and Hilary Bradt’s talk 13 Swing – there are outstanding classical talents Tamsin Waley-Cohen Virtuoso Violin and the essential evenings of downright silliness. 13 Great storytellers – from the nation’s Lord Douglas Poetry at St Luke’s 14 Hurd to our very own Paddy King-Fretts, together Karl Daymond ‘Lowering the Tone’ 15 with other local talents of all kinds - will hopefully Midsummer Family and Community Concert 15 provoke some people to muse upon whether they Information and booking form 16-19 themselves might have a story to tell. Simonsbath Sawmill events 21 Exmoor National Park and Heart of Exmoor events Since a night at the theatre in our capital now 22 requires a small mortgage to be taken out, this Exmoor Society walks 23 really does look like six weeks of small miracle Boevey’s Tea Rooms events 24 stimulation. Here’s to it! Exmoor Forest Inn events 25 Events diary – at a glance 29 Simonsbath Festival 5 May – 20 June www.simonsbathfestival.co.uk 1 Simonsbath The village of Simonsbath lies at the very heart of Exmoor and dates back to the 17th Century. Before then Simonsbath was probably just the name given to an ancient track - Siegmund’s Path – which wound its lonely way across a huge area of untamed moorland, the Royal Forest of Exmoor. This was not a forest of trees but was a vast, open area of wild country where hunting and other rights were reserved to the Crown, as they had been since before the Norman Conquest. Where Siegmund’s Path crossed the River Barle there was a ford and, about 500 years ago, a wooden bridge was built which became known as Siegmund’s Path (later Simonsbath) Bridge. Simonsbath Festival The Simonsbath Festival is a non-profit making community venture which is now in its third year. The festival offers an exciting variety of events held throughout the village between 5 May and 20 June. Simonsbath Festival continues to keep admission prices to the bare minimum, inviting a voluntary contribution of £5 for admission to many of the events and trusting that those who can afford it will be kind enough to pay a little bit extra to enable festival events to be enjoyed by those who are less fortunate. For ticket information and a booking form please see page 16. Simonsbath Festival Art Exhibition Boevey’s Tea Rooms, on the turning into Simonsbath House Hotel, will host the Simonsbath Festival Art Exhibition throughout the duration of the festival, from May 5 to June 20. Organised once again by Lucy Pearn, the art exhibition features a wide range of local artwork created by artists living in the Parish of Exmoor, and some from a little further afield on Exmoor and the fringes. The artwork is mainly Exmoor themed and includes paintings in oil, watercolour and pastel as well as printmaking. Admission to the exhibition is free during Boevey’s summer opening hours, from 10.30am to 5pm daily. 2 Simonsbath Festival 5 May – 20 June St Luke’s Church Work on building St Luke’s began in 1855 and the church was consecrated the following year. In the 19th Century the Royal Forest was enclosed and sold by the Crown to a midlands ironmaster John Knight whose vision was to create a great country estate. It was under the direction of his son Frederic that Simonsbath became a proper village with church, vicarage and school. Since its recent renovation St Luke’s has become a popular venue for events and remains a working church with regular services to which everyone is welcome. Details are available in the parish magazine, on the church gate or from the present incumbent Rector David Weir. Simonsbath Festival is grateful to the Rector and the Parochial Church Council for the use of their lovely church. Simonsbath Festival and St Luke’s are delighted to have been awarded match funding by the Diocese of Bath and Wells to install a new sound system in time for this year’s festival. Tickets for festival events at St Luke’s Church are available: • by phoning Marian Lloyd on 01643 831451 • by post using the booking form on page 17 • by emailing [email protected] • by downloading the booking form from the festival website www.simonsbathfestival.co.uk • by booking online at the festival website www.simonsbathfestival.co.uk Becoming a Friend of Simonsbath Festival for as little as £15 a year entitles you to special discounts on tickets and ensures that your name is added to our mailing list while at the same time helping to support the festival. For full details of ticket prices and booking information If you would like to join the Friends of Simonsbath Festival, please see page 16. please complete the application form on page 18. Simonsbath Festival 5 May – 20 June www.simonsbathfestival.co.uk 3 Friday 9 May – 6pm St Luke’s Westcombe Brass and the children of Dulverton Middle, Exford and Cutcombe First Schools As part of its broader activities in the community Simonsbath Festival has arranged for Westcombe Brass to run a series of workshops in local schools – Dulverton Middle, Exford First and Cutcombe First – working towards this joint concert with the children. Westcombe Brass are an accomplished young brass quintet who have previously given concerts at St Luke’s. They are made up of players who met while studying at London’s prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, formerly Trinity College of Music. Winners of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble prize, the quintet has a busy concert schedule, regularly performing across the UK. The concert programme includes songs from the First World War and music composed during that era. Refreshments available and a Cornish pasty, costing £4 and delivered fresh from Cornwall by the trombone player’s family, may be booked in advance for the interval by telephoning Marian Lloyd on 01643 831451. Adult £10 to reserve the seat of your choice; suggested donation £5 for unreserved seating; 14 year-olds and under free. 4 Simonsbath Festival 5 May – 20 June St Luke’s Photo courtesy of Simon Timms Saturday 10 May – 7.30pm Chris Chapman presents the film premiere How Many People see the Stars as I do? The Exmoor Story of Hope Bourne Acclaimed photographer and documentary film maker Chris Chapman presents the premiere of his film about the legendary Exmoor writer and artist Hope Bourne who for 24 years lived in a tiny caravan in remote isolation, leading a life of self-sufficiency, Photo courtesy of Chris Chapman painting and sketching the moor, writing for the local paper and later combining this creativity in a remarkable series of books. Refreshments available and an optional snack of Exmoor produce, costing £5, may be booked in advance by telephoning Marian Lloyd on 01643 831451. Adult £10 to reserve the seat of your choice; standard ticket £5; film sponsors and 14 year-olds and under free. Simonsbath Festival 5 May – 20 June www.simonsbathfestival.co.uk 5 St Luke’s Wednesday 14 May 7.30pm Lord Douglas Hurd Lord Douglas Hurd, who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1979 and his retirement in 1995, shares personal reminiscences of his time in office and his special interest in the great 19th Century Conservative politician and twice Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, about whom he has co-authored a best-selling biography.
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