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Download PDF File 6 MAY – 20 JUNE Simonsbath Festival 2019 PHYLLIDA LLOYD CBE patron Celebrating Music, Art, Talks & Walks on Exmoor from May Day to Midsummer Welcome to Exford Village Green Simonsbath Festival celebrates The Simonsbath Festival 2019 begins with the annual, colourful May Day celebration on the village green in Exford.The main venue for MAY DAY our variety of concerts and talks is the intimate St. Luke’s Church in Simonsbath with its excellent acoustics. Bank Holiday Monday 6 May | 2.00pm This year we have worked closely with The Exmoor Society to link some events Simonsbath Festival starts in the customary way with May Day to walks or have grouped walks and events around a particular theme. celebrations for all the family on Bank Holiday Monday 6th May The Simonsbath Festival Art Exhibition will open from 1–16 June, 11am to on Exford Village Green. 4pm, and will be held at The Old Pottery, Simonsbath (sign posted). • Maypole and country dancing by the children of Exford School As well as supporting St Luke’s Church, and other good causes, the Simonsbath • Live music from ‘Spinach for Norman’ Festival profits underwrite the Simonsbath Festival ‘Music in Schools’ Programme • Competitions including Tug o’ War and Welly Throwing which includes the ‘Songs from the Exmoor Forest’ Project, reviving interest in • Exford Hand Bells • Raffle and knowledge of Exmoor’s traditional music and songs. The ‘Music in Schools’ Programme is led by Paul Wilson of Wren Music, a Folk and Community Arts …and a host of other activities to celebrate the arrival of Spring. Organisation, and is all-important for the three Exmoor schools at a time Teas, Coffees, Alcoholic and Soft Drinks, lce Cream, Lunches etc. when many of the Arts have been axed from the school curriculum. The available from the pubs and cafes surrounding the Village Green. Simonsbath Festival culminates in a Midsummer performance by the children at the Morland Hall, Wheddon Cross. For information and details Please become a Simonsbath Festival Friend; as well as helping to support please telephone Marian Lloyd the festival you will be able to book tickets before the Box Office opens to on 01643 831451 or email the general public. [email protected] Both tickets and light suppers can be booked through the Simonsbath Festival website (www.simonsbathfestival.org.uk). We look forward to welcoming you to the Simonsbath Festival in May and June 2019. The Simonsbath Festival Committee Patron Phyllida Lloyd CBE 2 Simonsbath Festival 6 May – 20 June St. Luke’s Church St. Luke’s Church Saturday 11 May | 7.30pm Friday 17 May | 7.30pm Neath Male Choir Richard The Neath Male Voice Choir, originally formed as Melyncryddan Male Voice Choir on the 13th October 1978, changed its name in 1999, and McLaughlin celebrated its 40th anniversary last year. Since its inception the choir has performed in venues large and small from chapels and churches The WWII Exmoor Rocket: Its birth on Brendon to the Royal Albert Hall and in all parts of the UK as well as in Europe, Common and destiny on D-Day Canada and the USA. They have shared platforms with such celebrities as Bryn Terfel, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and their Honorary Vice An Illustrated talk on the story design and installation of offshore Presidents Katherine Jenkins and Gail Pearson, both daughters of Neath. behind the memorial to Colonel oil platforms and hydro-electric R.H. (Bobby) MacLaren OBE MC works. He is still active as a Wine, Tea, Coffee and Ice Cream. A pre-booked light supper is near Brendon Two Gates, given volunteer officer in the Engineer available during the interval. by Richard McLaughlin. & Logistic Staff Corps, a specialist group in 77th Brigade, the Army’s Tickets: £15 reserved seating; £10 standard tickets He will tell of experiment and tragedy on Exmoor, show a information warfare unit. Those Food: £5 booked in advance 1942 film of a secret large-scale attending this event may be test firing, and will include interested in going on the Exmoor eye-witness accounts of front- Society walk on Friday 24 May line rocket operations. One of when they will be able to view the the rockets will be on display. memorial to Colonel Maclaren. Richard McLaughlin lives in the Wine, Teas, Coffees and Ice East Lyn Valley, not far from the Cream. A pre-booked light memorial. He is a retired civil supper is available during the engineer, having worked on the interval. Tickets: £10 reserved seating; £5 standard tickets Food: £5 booked in advance www.simonsbathfestival.org.uk 3 Alderman’s Barrow St. Luke’s Church Saturday 18 May | 7.30pm Jonathan Edmunds Lorna Doone and novelist R.D. Blackmore: 150 years on Saturday 18 May | 10.00am Although born elsewhere, R.D. Blackmore spent illustrated with pictures of the Exmoor Doone most of his childhood in North Devon and drew Valley and the people, landscape and buildings extensively on his childhood experiences when made famous by the novel. You may also be Exmoor writing Lorna Doone. Jonathan Edmunds talks interested in the walk on 24 May. about the enduring reputation of the novel and Wine, Tea, Coffee and Ice Cream. Pre-booked Society Walk that of its author R.D. Blackmore. The talk is light supper available during the interval. The Knights & WWII on Exmoor Tickets: £10 reserved seating; £5 standard tickets; Food: £5 booked in advance Starting at Alderman’s Barrow, you will see evidence of the Neolithic, Bronze, Medieval and Victorian ages. At Larkbarrow you will Monday 20 May & Monday 17 June | 10.00am–4.00pm hear about the Knights who built a farm and tried to farm the moor. You will see evidence of the impact of World War ll (this was a Simonsbath Sawmill Open Day training area for the American Forces in their preparation for D-Day). Near Three Combes Built for John Knight sometime after 1818 and Foot we hope to see red deer. refurbished for Viscount Ebrington (later Lord Fortescue) in 1898. A waterwheel no longer Dogs on leads welcome. Please wear suitable clothing and footwear. Participants take part powers the mill but the water turbine that replaced at their own risk. Bring packed lunch. Shops, it in 1898 is still working. The mill is now used for pubs and a café available in Exford. demonstration and as a venue for educational visits and activities. Further info on our website. Free to all but donations are always Refreshments available (within licensing hours) welcome. at the Exmoor Forest Inn opposite the sawmill. 4 Simonsbath Festival 6 May – 20 June St. Luke’s Church Ashcombe Car Park Wednesday 22 May | 7.30pm Thursday 23 May | 10.30am Exmoor Society Walk Roger Furniss Murder and Mystery at Wheal Eliza Ted Hughes and Exmoor’s Rivers On this short walk of approximately 4km (2.5 miles) along the Barle River you will hear a history of the Knight family, mining on this part of Exmoor’s rivers have been an and is a Poet, Senior Fellow of Exmoor, and the tragic murder and mystery at Wheal Eliza. One or two inspiration for poets, writers the Royal College of Art, former short climbs but overall an easy walk along the valley. and painters for generations. Curator of Photography and Dogs on leads welcome. Bring a picnic or lunch at the pub in Preserving the river’s beauty Honorary Research Fellow at Simonsbath. requires a pragmatic, knowledge- the V&A. based appreciation of how Free but donations to the Exmoor Society are always welcome rivers work. Roger Furniss (who knew Ted Hughes in the fishing community) Brendon Two Gates Friday 24 May | 10.00am The evening will be opened will reminisce about Ted Hughes, by Mark Haworth-Booth OBE his love of fishing and the work reading ‘The River in March’ by currently being done to preserve Exmoor Society Walk late Poet Laureate, fisherman and the Exmoor rivers which were so To Badgworthy and Doone Country with Rob Wilson-North ‘Honorary Devonian’ Ted Hughes, important to him. There will be Heroes, Heroines, Hunter-Gatherers famous places. See who lived in Mid Devon from an opportunity for questions and and Hermits: an Exploration of Blackmore’s memorial the 1960’s. Hughes was a keen discussions. Doone Country. stone and the remains fisherman and a Founder Trustee Join Archaeologist Rob Wilson- of a medieval village. of the Westcountry Rivers Trust. Wine, Tea, Coffee and Ice Cream. North for a 4-mile walk over rough Dogs welcome on leads. Those attending Mark Haworth-Booth knew Ted A pre-booked light supper is moorland (please come prepared) in the footsteps of Lorna Doone author the walk might also Hughes in the literary community available during the interval. R.D. Blackmore. An exploration of enjoy the talk on 18 May. one of Exmoor’s most remote and Bring packed lunch (no facilities). Tickets: £10 reserved seating; £5 standard tickets Food: £5 booked in advance Free but donations to the Exmoor Society are always welcome www.simonsbathfestival.org.uk 5 St. Luke’s Church St. Luke’s Church Saturday 25 May | 7.30pm Wednesday 29 May | 7.30pm A Night at the Opera Tim Bonner Isobel Hughes is an Undergraduate at Trinity of Durham and the Royal Northern College From Hunting to Post Offices Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance of Music. During his time at the RNCM Tom (‘London’s Creative Conservatoire’) and has performed roles in Carmen, La Belle Helene and Tim Bonner, family links to Exmoor. She is studying under the was The Baker/Flugelhorne player in a music- Chief watchful eye of Anne Mason.
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