July 18-21 Castle Carrock

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www.musiconthemarr.com Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 8.30 - R M Hubbert Welcome to our 10th anniverary

Welcome, welcome, welcome to this, astonishingly, the 10th Music on the Marr. It astounds me this little festival is still around and kicking a whole decade after we thought we might put on a couple of bands in a wedding marquee. DAY ONE The years have flown by but we’ve always tried to stay true to those initial days. We rapidly expanded from one day to four and we’ve done our upmost to make the best use of all the Thursday 18th July venues available to us. But there was never any danger of us forgetting what first inspired us to see whether we could make this thing work. The love of music, good company and community have been guiding principles that have seen us through the tough times. Any time we may have been daunted by the task ahead, there’s the memory of RM Hubbert better known as ‘Hubby’ is a guitarist all those great nights, great gigs and smiling faces to sustain the effort. and (sometimes) singer from Scotland. He writes The festival is something of which all those who play a part are justly proud. It’s put together and run with music about love, death, friendship, mental illness love, care and attention. and occasionally a dog called D Bone. At last count more than 100 people give of their time freely and unfailingly to make sure each year is a On the Marr One of Glasgow’s more prolific artists with an success. astonishing guitar style described as “mesmeric” The feedback tells us how much artists, performers, visitors and villagers cherish what’s been built here. and “utterly captivating”, RM Hubbert has released So this is our 10th year and I think it will be our best ever – but then I say that every year. And every year it is. 6.45 - Hexham Morris Men music under a variety of guises since 1993 and Whether you live here or roundabouts, you’re visiting for the 10th time or the first, you are very welcome. his terrific recorded output has not gone unnoticed We hope you take away some very special memories from another year on the Marr. winning him many awards and sold out gigs. “Technically dazzling and deeply moving.” - Uncut Richard Johnstone Marquee Stage “Hubbert’s a hell of a guitarist.” - Daily Express

Music in the Hat Concert 10.00 - The Baghdaddies Our big warm up event. Put what you can afford into the hat. If you can find £5 or more that would be great; it all goes to the performers and technical staff.

The Love You Leave Behind Collective Roy Bailey was an icon of the music world and a true friend to Music on The Marr. 7.30 - The Huff Like so many we were heartbroken at the death of our patron last November. Throughout his long association with our festival he’d been an unstinting supporter and sounding board, able to offer decades of wisdom to our ambition to bring world class talent to a corner of rural Cumbria. That was Roy, champion of the underdog.

We’d see another side of him when he picked up his guitar for a standing The Baghdaddies’ exuberant and rampant brand room only session in the main marquee. of world music is an exhilarating cocktail of Balkan Mobility not so good, the memory playing the occasional trick, but the warmth melodies, ska and Latin grooves; sizzling brass and sincerity flowed from the stage and right through an appreciatve and played with furious energy and theatrical humour, attentive audience. making them as unforgettable on stage as they are Sadly we’ll have no Roy this year. Not in person, anyway. But his spirit lives on “We’re in The Huff. We’re going to play piano, guitar when performing as wandering brass troubadours. and he’ll be with us with the Love You Leave Behind Collective. and more, and sing in hopeful harmony. We listen They take themselves incredibly seriously so you We’re delighted, but not surprised, that a host of folk music’s grandest names to David Bowie, Alt-J and Radiohead, who inspire don’t have to… A proper Newcastle institution, will be joining us to keep alive the songs the great man made his own. us to write our songs, mostly about the world these engaging musical goons last played at Music It promises to be the most fitting of tributes to a one-off man and from a young person’s perspective. Please come on the Marr in 2011; we are delighted to have them performer - don’t miss it. (Page 10) along; it might even be a laugh, or if not we’ll have back. to play to just our families.” From Daisy and Eve, “The band has a particular flair for the Balkans Young Music on the Marr graduates of MOM’s Young Musician’s Showcase and capture its frenetic energy and flamboyance Following on from the success of last year’s Young Music on the Marr event, we have again invited last year. wonderfully. There is also a fair share of klezmer, children from local schools to have an afternoon of music and performance at the festival. Young MoM jazz, ska and punk – an anarchic fusion where Ivo will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 17th July from 12.00 - 2.30 giving our local young Papasov meets The Clash meets The Beat ” musicians and singers, from Castle Carrock, Hallbankgate, Great Corby and Warwick Bridge Primary — Songlines Magazine schools, the exciting opportunity to perform on the main stage to a large audience. 2 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 3 piano and guitar arrangements and you’ve got Take a group of the hottest contemporary fiddle 8.30 - The Trials of Cato the award winning Blazin’ Fiddles on your hands. playersThe from Artisans’ the Highlands Market and Islands of Come and visit the Pennine Artisans and And they are Blazin’, in the past decade no other Scotland, mix with some wonderfully sympathetic friends in the hall - we’re in between the band has quite captured Scottish fiddle music’s piano and guitar arrangements and you’ve got the main music marquee and the Magnificent Tea variety, energy and sensitivity like Blazin’ Fiddles award winning Blazin’ Fiddles on your hands. And Emporium. There you’ll find 10 artist/makers have. Like rare single malts, each member of they are Blazin’, in the past decade no other band displaying their works - many of them new DAY TWO Blazin’ Fiddles draws the distinct flavour of music has quite captured Scottish fiddle music’s variety, to MoM. We have silver jewellery, ceramics, from their part of the Highlands and Islands. energy and sensitivity like Blazin’ Fiddles have. photography, glass, watercolours, felt, candles, Blending solo and ensemble sets, aged with the Like rare single malts, each member of Blazin’ festival gifts and prints….oh, and don’t forget Friday 19th July occasional insightful tale, they all come together in Fiddles draws the distinct flavour of music from the chocolates! We will also be the only point a fiery blend to excite your senses. From remote their part of the Highlands and Islands. Blending of sale for the Music on the Marr T-shirts and village halls to the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert solo and ensemble sets, aged with the occasional Hoodies, so make sure to stop by and say Hall, fiddlers Jenna Reid, Bruce MacGregor, insightful tale, they all come together in a fiery hello. We open our doors with wine and nibbles RuaMacmillan and Kristan Harvey are joined by blend to excite your senses. From remote village at 6pm on Friday 19th and will remain open Anna Massie on guitar/fiddle and Angus Lyon on halls to the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, A band that arrived fully formed and functioning during festival hours (8am - 10pm on Saturday piano to deliver a musically intoxicating evening fiddlers Jenna Reid, Bruce MacGregor, Rua from Beirut in the winter of 2016, have since torn a and Sunday). See you there! St Peter’s Church shape very much their own into the canvas of the for all. Macmillan and Kristan Harvey are joined by Anna UK folk scene. Massie on guitar/fiddle and Angus Lyon on piano Originally from North and , whilst to deliver a musically intoxicating evening for all. 6.30 - The Singers living in Lebanon they spent a year boiling down Castle Carrock’s Natural Voice Network community the roots of their sound into a hybrid of traditional choir now 5 years old and learning to run, skip and influences that intrigued Lebanese audiences in jump. They will bring you gorgeous harmonies from the country’s biggest venues. Africa, Macedonia (maybe!) and a few songs in They moved back to the UK and spent a tireless their mother tongue. They may not always be pitch year performing up and down the country, leading perfect (not for want of trying) nor perfectly precise to BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe hailing them as in their timings but they do love what happens “one of the real discoveries on the folk circuit in when they share songs and sing together. If you recent times.” Their musical development in the are local and feel like joining in the fun and learning run up to their debut album proper – Hide and Hair some of their songs come along to The Watson – has been swift and sure. The trio may inhabit Institute on Monday evenings from 7.30 - 9.00. the folk genre with a grateful respect for its history, but with this album moving all the way from 18th century ballads to stomping dance tunes; they Marquee Stage hope to twist its old bones into something febrile

and contemporary. Don’t miss this. Health & Safety Consultants 7.30 - Idiot & Friend Les Barker and Keith Donnelly first formed this 10.00 - Blazin’ Fiddles IRM Safety supplies unrivalled health and safety support to a unholy alliance when they decided to share the diverse range of business sectors across Cumbria and the UK stage at the Australian National Festival in front of 55,000 people! They were billed as “The Laughing Stock of Great Britain”. The audience was treated to a very special fusion of two VERY great comedy talents, and simply refused to let the dynamic duo off the stage! Les Barker writes strange poems and comes originally from , but he’s now Welsh. He was an accountant before he became a Engineering Surveyors professional idiot. He’s written hundreds of books, which sell in large numbers at his gigs because CTS Safety Leaders in engineering and examination services people don’t quite believe what they’ve just heard. for all types of plant and equipment Keith Donnelly can make you laugh, cry or make you do anything you may or may not want to do. He is an accomplished singer guitarist and writer Take a group of the hottest contemporary fiddle IRM: 01697 270020 [email protected] www.irmsafety.co.uk of national fame. He has written for the likes of players from the Highlands and Islands of CTS: 01697 270020 [email protected] www.ctssafety.co.uk Jasper Carrot and Phil Cool. Scotland, mix with some wonderfully sympathetic

4 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 5 Maggie will be joining us again this year to run her very successful “Easy Peasy Penny Whistle” workshops for absolute beginners in two parts, Performances 3.15 - Arthur Coates with

today and tomorrow. Maggie is an experienced Kerran Cotterell teacher and workshop leader. She has worked with St Peter’s Church DAY THREE both adults and children for many years. Bring your whistle or we can sell you a ‘D’ whistle from the Festival Office or Maggi may lend you one. Saturday 20th July 12.00 - Julie & Max Baker 11.00 - Round the Reservoir Race It starts and finishes, as usual, outside The Duke - you’ll need to register there too, from 10am. The course is approximately two miles long. All ages and abilities are welcome, there is a small registration fee and there will be a medal for everyone who finishes. If nothing else, it’s a great way to run off that Friday night excess and get you in the groove for another fabulous Workshops and day of music and fun. And if you don’t want to run, just come along and support the runners as they power Multi instrumentalist Arthur Coates is from rural their way to the finish....in 2018 almost 100 people Aberdeenshire and has been playing fiddle since Special Events completed the race. Long standing friends of Music on the Marr, the the age of 7. His first teacher Sharon Hassan was well loved musical pair, Julie and Max met over 30 a very big influence in his musical development. 9.30 - Play the Ukulele with years ago at Skipton Folk Club where Max sang He was inspired to take up the guitar by John 1.00 - Workshop his own original songs and Julie specialised in Coletta (The Humpff Family). At the age of 12 Ian K Brown - St Peter’s Church haunting ballads and traditional material. She was Arthur was awarded a scholarship to attend the An absolute beginner’s workshop on Saturday and an lead by Hexham Morris Men and known as the ‘Nightingale of Cumbria’. ‘Aberdeen City Music School’ to study fiddle and improver’s event on Sunday. Be ready to sing, have fun They know perform as a duo with a mixture of guitar. Here he was taught by Jonny Hardie (Old and surprise yourself. This workshop is suitable for total Hexhamshire Lasses - School Yard original, covers and always plenty of Tradition. Blind Dogs), who is still a huge influence as is ‘Le beginners (aged 8 – 80+) and those who have made a Have a go and see what you can do at this taster songs and Julie specialised in haunting ballads Vent Du Nord’. start but cannot join chords together. If you have your session. New recruits are always needed in Morris and traditional material. She was known as the Arthur is a member of ‘Aff Oor Hieds’. They own ukulele please bring it along, but we will also have sides all over the country. It is our nation’s longest ‘Nightingale of Cumbria’. released their debut album in October 2018. ‘spare’ ukuleles for people to borrow. surviving dance tradition. They now perform as a duo with a mixture of 2019 marks the start of a new project for Arthur, There will an opportunity tomorrow to be part of a original, covers and always plenty of tradition. as he will release and tour a brand new album and performance of what we have learned – so make show. This album was released in May. It features sure you invite your friends to come and see you at 6.00 - Boggarts & How to Trick just fiddle, guitar, vocals and podorythmie (foot the performance - they will be stunned! This a great 1.00 - The Talkin Singers percussion). The Talkin Singers sing in unaccompanied four- opportunity for parents and children to do an activity Them with Ursula Holden Gill “Arthur thrives on performance and collaboration part harmony; soprano, alto, tenor and bass. together. Put your name on the list in the Festival Office. with other musicians, but is also a brilliant multi- - The Marr Singers do not need to read music to join and instrumentalist in his own right” - Jonny Hardie, Old Small gnome like creatures called Boggarts have are not auditioned. The Talkin Singers have been Blind Dogs 9.30 - Easy Peasy Penny been living wild on the moors around here since performing as an ensemble since 1991 and some before time began. For centuries they managed of the original members still remain in all four Whistle with Maggie Feeny - to exist peaceably alongside humans, keeping parts! The repertoire includes church songs, pop 5.00 - The Young Musicians’ themselves well hidden in ditches and hedgerows songs, traditional songs from other countries and School Hall and appearing only to unsuspecting travellers with national songs from the UK and Ireland. the promise of a trick if no treat was forthcoming. Showcase Each year we are delighted to provide a show of But gradually humans over farmed the moors, burnt new and emerging young talent drawn from local them, built on them and polluted them with their 2.00 - The D’Ukes schools by music teacher Ben Draper. Some of factories and so the Boggarts got angry and became The D’Ukes are Castle Carrock’s local ukulele our ‘graduates’ have gone on to become full time more goblinesque. They set about sneaking down band who began at MOM five years ago. And this musicians. Limited space; get there early if you into town and causing a right rumpus. And indeed, will be their 5th appearance at the festival. Under want a seat. they still do. Quick to shapeshift, slippery in their the masterful guise of Ian K Brown they now have speech and fast on their humungous hairy feet so a massive repertoire and will be treating audiences Evie Baldwin (12) and Lily Marr (13) their pranks all look like your fault, the stories you’ll to just a small selection of their tunes. Join in with These two have been friends for years and have hear on this Boggarts & How to Trick Them Trail won’t the singing if you dare! been playing music together more recently. Evie only protect you from the wily ways of these halflings studies at QEGS in Penrith, loves her horse, and but will also teach you how to identify, outwit and wants to be a barrister when she is older. Lily even befriend one!

6 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 7 studies at William Howard School, loves singing Ian has been a stalwart of Music on the Marr since Brian and Pete present a trove of freshly- compositions that carry on the Danish tradition and dancing, and would love a career with 4Ocean the beginning. He is a fine singer and songwriter discovered material, with ballads sourced from while looking out across the world. America. A super pair who are a joy to listen to! and has featured in a number of local bands. He Alison Morgan’s new book on the broadsides of the Tours in Germany, , Wales, Scotland, is a retired head teacher and much of his time at day, and from their own research, with many set to Ireland and Finland have honed their Natasha Carss (14) Natasha attends William MOM is spent teaching people to make music. He original tunes. Between them they offer fine voices communication skills as an entertaining and Howard School and enjoys hill walking and textiles. founded Castle Carrock’s ukulele band The D’Ukes and instrumental skills on concertina, melodeon, accomplished duo. An award for Track of the Year Keen on being a music teacher when she is older, and he can teach you too. bouzouki and guitar, and add to the mix period for their The Danish Immigrant EP and an Artist Natasha is sounding great on the piano and we dance music from the Manchester area. of the Year nomination at the Danish Folk Music look forward to her set! Awards have acknowledged their musical ability Castle Carrock School and composing talents. Brenden Carss (15) Brenden - accompanied by 3.30 - Stories with Ursula It is in live performances especially that these Ben Draper - is a talented guitarist who studies musicians shine, sharing music and stories that at William Howard School. He enjoys walking, but 11.30 - Steve Ridley Holden Gill stay in audiences’ memories long after the last prefers playing the guitar, and is looking at a career Steve started playing aged 11 and gigging by 14. note has sounded. as a sound engineer in the future. An impressive His first band was Maureen & The Thunder beats. set awaits! He has played with Marmalade, The Yardbirds (Jimmy Paige on bass & Jeff Beck on guitar) and 6.00 - Kinfolk Helena Maude (11) Helena is our youngest The Groundhogs”. He started Soul/R&B Band musician in the showcase this year, but don’t Uncle Toms Express. let that fool you. A super talented pianist whose favourite band is Queen. She loves the 90’s sitcom ‘Friends’ and wants to be a music teacher when 12.30 - Children’s Concert she is older. We wish her every success. with Ursula Holden Gill, Keith Donnelly & Celia Ketchell Billy Macgregor (15) When not playing guitar Ursula is a one woman tour de force; Storyteller, Myth - and at William Howard School Billy is usually Maker, Comedienne & Curator. An award-winning found with a guitar in hand - Billy plays rugby for 2.00 - The Road to Peterloo Actress and a familiar face on screen, in recent Rugby Club Under 15’s Team and also years she has established herself as a unique and for the County Team. He aspires to have a career pertinent storytelling talent, both in Britain and Brian McDaid and Gerry Power met in the south in medicine too, so he surely can’t sleep much! A beyond; winning audiences over in Belgium, China, of England in the early 2000’s. Brian was born natural rocky blues guitarist. Ireland and South America. Working across the in Glasgow. His parents are from Donegal and performance, education and community sectors Fermanagh in Ireland. Born in London, Gerry is Josie and Lorna Mattinson (13) Josie and Lorna alike. Ursula has generated firm links with also of Irish descent, with parents from Cork. Both both attend William Howard School and have institutions such as Action for Children, Opera are influenced by traditional and contemporary folk become a super duo. As well as playing guitar, North, Settle Stories, Social Services and The music from Ireland, Scotland and England. Josie’s interests include netball and she hopes to National Trust. Their debut album in 2006, ‘This Land’, was have a career in music when she is older. Lorna critically acclaimed. There was a significant amount loves music and art as well as playing netball and of airplay and this resulted in ‘This Land’ being on tennis, and has ambitions to be a DJ / Remixer. A 4.15 - Andreas Tophøj and Rune a number of radio stations’ ‘Album of the Week’ fantastic end to this year’s Showcase. playlists. Their second album ‘Long Time Gone’ Barslund followed in 2015 when they were joined by fiddle ‘The Road to Peterloo’ tells the story of one of the player Michael Sanderson who now lives in the 7.00 - Ian K Brown most notorious incidents in British labour history Eden Valley. His exceptional playing added another – the ‘Peterloo Massacre’ in Manchester in 1819 – dimension. In recent years they have also been through some of the many broadside ballads that joined in performance by the multi-skilled bass were printed around the time of the event. player John Joce. Pete Coe and Brian Peters from trace the story from its roots in the “They make amazing music...vocally and poverty and hunger suffered by handloom weavers instrumentally they are excellent...beautiful songs Andreas Tophøj and Rune Barslund are among distilled by grace and beauty” -The Celtic Music Fan. in the early 19th century. Their songs describe the leading Danish traditional musicians of their the terrible events of the day itself, when mounted generation. Specialising in fiddle and accordion but soldiers charged a peaceful crowd demanding also encompassing viola, whistle and vocals, they votes for all, and killed or injured many men, have married their roots in the Jutland peninsula women and children by their indiscriminate use with playing experiences from residing in Ireland, of sabres, and tell of later political developments Finland and North America and encounters with inspired by the carnage. musicians from other cultures to create original 8 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 9 of the greatest interpreters of contemporary and “Secretary’s Song” became a BBC Radio 2 legend professional career in music ever since. They won traditional songs. and “Breastfeeding Baby in the Park” has been the inaugural Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Marquee Stage In this unique show we bring together some of taken up by the pro-breastfeeding lobby. Janet has Folk Awards in 2000, and were also the first ever those musicians who worked with Roy and some worked with many musicians including Roy Bailey recipients of the “Best Duo” Award, which they won of the songwriters whose songs he sang. Many and toured the show “Take These Chains from My in 2003, and again in 2011. 1.30 - William Howard School Band of them appeared with Roy in The Anti Capitalist Heart”, written by partner Jim Woodland. Her work Road Show: Celebrating Subversion, and other on Scottish traditional material has received huge Stew Simpson. Roy had been Stew’s favourite collaborations. All of them have an important critical acclaim. She is a member of the Natural voice in the folk world for some time before they place in the canon of folk music in these islands Voice Practitioners’ Network and a director of met at Cecil Sharp House, the home of The and have been most influential in its development Yorkshire Dales Workshops. English Folk Dance and Song Society where during the last 50 years. they were both playing. After an ageist slight by . One of our greatest singer the organiser Stew found himself enraged at the songwriters and a committed fighter for truth and injustice of ageism and he challenged it. Being Contributions from: justice. In the early days of the folk revival, he brave in front of an audience gained him a friend, Ray Hearne. His family came from rural Kilkenny, was a member of the Galliards. He started writing a mentor and eventually led to Roy becoming the in the early 1950s and landed in Industrial songs seriously (and humorously) in the early Patron at Music On The Marr. “He showed me Rotherham; steel plants and mills on every side. 1960s. His early songs were topical-satirical and that if you aren’t brave and don’t stand up for what He became a Yorkshire Irish kid and later began to featured on TV’s That Was The Week That Was. He you believe to be the truth and what is right then write songs, poems and stories out of that smoky experiments with different song forms and had the the truly magical things in life might not happen”. beginning some of it in response to the Thatcher honour of having one of his recordings, the 1962, He showed me that love can make ‘Everything Made up from Year 10 students from William governments trashing of South Yorkshire. He was ‘Songs for City Squares’ censored by the BBC. He Possible!” Howard School, this band has gone from strength born into a musical family regularly singing with his collaborated with Roy Bailey in many projects over to strength. Performances at the Old Fire Station, brother Mark. His ‘Song for David’ was amongst the 35 years and he continues to perform and write. Marc Block is curating The LYLB Collective. Marc Hogfest and multiple events throughout the year most requested in Roy’s repertoire. was Roy’s friend for over thirty years, and his have established this group of young musicians as a . An English folk singer, multi driver and accompanist during the last six years high end band. They are still looking for a long term . Cumbrian and an acclaimed instrumentalist, song-writer and choir director. She of Roy’s life. He has also been part of Music on band name, any suggestions are welcome but for singer and voice teacher. She is a key mover of the has a distinguished career in music and was a the Marr for that time, appearing with his Trio, as a now that are known as WH Band. natural voice and community choirs movements member of The Critics Group with Ewan MacColl Wandering Minstrel, doing special concerts such and is the president of The Natural Voice Network. and . She has been a part of Sisters as his “European Tour”, and often dancing wildly She has been a voice coach for theatrical groups, Unlimited, Voice Union and the Anti Capitalist down the front. A fine singer and songwriter, Marc 2.30 - The Love You Leave Behind including at the National Theatre for 18 years. She Roadshow. With John Faulkner, she wrote the is a highly engaging and personable performer, was involved with folk and political songs from the music for the TV series Bagpuss and voiced the disarming and wooing his audiences with his Collective: A Tribute to Roy Bailey 1950s and in a trio with Roy and Leon Rosselson character of Madeleine Remnant. Sandra was on emotional honesty. His third album is in the for 8 years in the 80s. They toured N America and the staff of Newcastle University’s degree in Folk & making, featuring guest appearances by several of Europe as well as doing many concerts for CND Traditional Music for 17 years until 2017 those in this collective. and other causes in the UK. Frankie was given the prestigious Gold Badge Award by The English Folk Martin Simpson. Unquestionably one of the Dance and Song Society last year. world’s greatest guitarists and songwriters. His 5.00 - Public excluded for music reflects a wide variety of influences and Jim Woodland. Songwriter, performer and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and soundchecks producer. Jim worked for both the BBC and the beyond. As well as dozens of collaborations he has Inner London Education Authority. He has been a released 21 solo albums. He was Roy’s son in law street theatre and cabaret performer, playwright and regularly accompanied him at performances 7.30 - Luke Daniels and Nancy Kerr and creator of shows for theatre companies at home in Sheffield and throughout the country, Professor Roy Bailey, MBE (returned) who died and sketches for comedians. He now leads most notably at Roy’s annual August Bank Holiday last year, was patron at Music on the Marr for on community work with Blaze specialising in afternoon gig at Towersy Festival where he was 7 years. He had a distinguished career as an video, audio, music and drama workshops and patron for 50 years. academic sociologist by day; at the weekends performance bringing high quality productions and in the evenings Roy was a man of the people, to village halls. He is a talented and inspiring Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. Outstanding singer of songs of compassion, resistance, songwriter; Roy Bailey was an exponent of his musicianship, a lifelong grounding in traditional revolution and hope. For 55 years his strong songs. singing and instrumental playing, acclaimed voice filled sold out gigs in small folk clubs, original compositions but most noticeably a marquees and at festivals, The Albert Hall and Janet Russell. Singer, vocal harmony workshop visceral chemistry between these two make Two of the British folk scene’s top performers have across the world. Often thought to have been a leader, musical director, arranger and choir leader. Kerr and Fagan a perennial favourite at festivals, teamed up for some duo/double header shows to great songwriter, he was the first to admit that Janet first made a name for herself in the 80s venues and clubs across the country. They met perform their own and each other’s music. Since he had never written a song in his life. Instead as a young singer songwriter writing with hard- in December 1995, and formed the duo and life Daniels’ landmark solo statement What’s Here he interpreted songs written by others making edged humour about issues affecting women. Her partnership that has become the backbone of their What’s Gone in 2014, he’s put down several more them his own and he has been described as one 10 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 11 markers on the musical map. All of this, in the context of a career playing melodeon for acts like 9.35 - Fire Show - School Yard Pub Sessions Newcastle based circus collective Labyrinth return Jethro Tull and Riverdance. Throughout The There will be ongoing sessions in The Duke of for their 6th outing at MOM. Nancy Kerr is one of the most celebrated folk . If you play an instrument reasonably well, Their trademark blend of fire and partner musicians of her generation, and has to date won can sing, tell a story or just want to listen then this is acrobatics is sure to delight and amaze as they Weekend 6 Folk Awards from BBC Radio 2 including 2015 the place for you. If the crowd has not turned up yet, bring a stripped back duo show for everyone to Folk Singer of the Year, Horizon Award 2000, Best start your own session and invite others to join you. enjoy. An interactive spectacle which has become Duo 2003 and again in 2011 with James Fagan. Keith Donnelly a Saturday night tradition at Cumbria’s most This new duo show promises to be a stunning eclectic music festival, the Labyrinth Fire Show is mix of contemporary folk music and inspired Carlisle Puppet Pageant: Prism Arts not to be missed. instrumental virtuosity. “Come and join us in making a giant sheep themed puppet which will form part of the Carlisle Puppet Pageant for this year - as part of the theme of 8.30 - Martin Simpson 10.00 - Tide Lines “Kaleidoscope of Carlisle Life, celebrating the people and achievements that have made the city what it is today” - in conjunction with Prism Arts and Carlisle City Council. All materials supplied - we just need your time, energy and enthusiasm! All ages welcome, Keith Donnelly has been our MC at Music on the but children need to be accompanied by an adult. Marr since the early days spreading mirth wherever he goes. He brings his own body weight in comedy gold to each and every set. In no particular order, Willow weaving Keith has been described as “a superbly original The Withy Crafters have a passion for creating Stand-Up,” “a great singer-songwriter,” “a fine anything out of willow. See them in their tent behind guitarist,” “a kids entertainer par excellence,” “a the school where they will have some of their stunning storyteller,” and “the cleanest comic I’ve baskets and other items that can be created using ever seen.” willow – and then have a go yourself. There will be a small charge for materials. Celia Ketchell It’s magic! Look out for our resident magicians Stuart Bowie There is no doubt that after 45 years as a Tide Lines are 4 talented young musicians originally and Brian Stokes as they bewilder and bemuse professional musician Martin is, right now, better from the Highlands of Scotland, who have been wandering around the festival. than ever. Widely acknowledged as one of the making waves around Europe’s festivals with packed finest acoustic and slide guitar players in the out shows. world, his interpretations of traditional songs are Forged from the literature and music of the areas Photo competition masterpieces of storytelling. His solo shows are where they grew up, Tide Lines meld romantic, Take a selfie by yourself or with friends next to intense, eclectic, spellbinding and deeply moving. rural life with a record collection of classic American one of the original three “please dance” road signs Martin has been nominated an astounding 27 songwriters. Imagine, if you will, a 70’s Springsteen Celia lives in Broughton in Furness in South coming into Castle Carrock and post it onto twitter times in the fifteen years of the BBC Radio 2 Folk and an E-Street band with bagpipes and electronics, Cumbria and has always been influenced by folk or instagram (or both) using #pleasedance and Awards - more than any other performer - with combined with sizzling electric guitar, drums and music. In the early days it was traditional songs #musiconthemarr. Be as creative as you like! The 9 consecutive years as nominee for Musician of soaring vocals. In just under 2 years they have gone which she enjoyed learning and performing. best ones will be printed off and displayed on Sunday. The Year, which he has won twice. 2008 saw an from some digital singles to a debut album - Dreams Latterly she has become interested in more incredible 5 nominations for “Prodigal Son’ and 2 We Never Lost - with almost 3 million spotify contemporary music, both British and American. wins, whilst in 2010 he had an unprecedented 6 streams, and well over 15,000 CD sales (solely from Celia particularly enjoys song writing and includes, Music on the Marr T-Shirts nominations for his CD, “True Stories” and a win for after gig sales and direct from the band), peaking at in her performances a repertoire of her own songs Once again, a competition was held and the winning Best Traditional Track, “Sir Patrick Spens”. He has #16 in the iTunes download chart. inspired by topical events or people and places design was chosen from a great variety sent in worked with a vast array of musicians all at the top Whilst still in their (very) early 20s singer Robert she has come across. Her “Song for Cumbria” , by loads of talented people! At Thursday 18th’s of their game. Robertson and multi-instrumentalist Ross Wilson following radio plays, raised funds for the flood ‘Music in the Hat’ gig, we will be selling them at were a substantial part of Skipinnish, but left to set appeal following Storm Desmond in 2015. the entrance to the main marquee, and from then Whether playing American old-time music, blues, up their own band in late 2016. 2 became 4 and 4 on they will be available to buy from the Artisans’ a Dylan song or his own material, Martin Simpson became Tide Lines when Alasdair Turner (guitar & Danny 5 Market (in the village hall, between the main music is unpredictable, individual and a guitarist of bagpipes) and Fergus Munro (drums) were recruited. Look out on Saturday and Sunday as Danny 5 marquee and the Magnificent Tea Emporium). immense subtlety. A clutch of digital singles saw a fervent online fan brings his solo street shows to the Marr. Numbers are limited, particularly the hoodies, so base grow rapidly, consuming in their thousands With his collection of tennis rackets, toilet plungers please don’t leave it too late! T shirts are £12 for everything from a limited pressing of their debut and appalling fruit related puns he delivers a non- adults and £8 for children’s. Hoodies are £25. album to a rampant demand for concert tickets. stop mix of skill, danger and circus stunts that will amuse and astound all ages. 12 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 13 Time THURSDAY FRIDAY Time Time SATURDAY SUNDAY Time

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10:00 10:00 10:00 Whistles Beginners Beginners 10:00 Ukes Whistles Frankie Armstrong Ukes 10:30 10:30 10:30 Ramble - Talkin Improvers 10:30 10:30 - 1.00 11:00 11:00 11:00 Reservoir Ukes 11:00 Queen & Race Performance Speakeasy 11:30 11:30 11:30 Jester ALL TIMES in the Duke 11:30 Steve 12:00 12:00 12:00 SUBJECT TO Max Ridley Ben 12:00 Draper 12:30 12:30 12:30 & Julie CONFIRMATION Baker 12:30 Children’s Reservoir 1:00 1:00 1:00 Zimbaremabwe Show Morris Story 1:00 The Talkin Workshop Andy Workshop 1:30 1:30 1:30 Singers WH Cutting 1:30 2:00 2:00 2:00 Band 2:00 The The Road to 2:30 2:30 2:30 D’Ukes Opera Lele Pete Coe John & Peterloo Caroline 2:30 3:00 3:00 3:00 Bushby 3:00 The Love Pub 3:30 3:30 3:30 You Leave Session 3:30 Arthur Ursula Hadrian’s Taize Behind Holden Gill Mid Pub 4:00 4:00 4:00 Coates Union Summers Session 4:00 Dream 4:30 4:30 4:30 4:30 Andreas & 5:00 5:00 5:00 Rune 5:30 - 8:30 5:00 Brian 5:30 5:30 5:30 Stewards Young Peters 5:30 Briefing Musicians Closed Assynt 6:00 6:00 6:00 Closed Showcase Little Man 6:00 Boggarts Stew Adventure 6:30 6:30 6:30 Simpson Kinfolk 6:30 Hexham Geltsdale 7:00 7:00 7:00 Talkin Morris Men Singers Ian K 7:00 Amy Hill Fellas 7:30 7:30 7:30 Brown 7:30 The Huff Idiot Daniels 8:00 8:00 8:00 & friend & Kerr 8:00

8:30 8:30 8:30 Lankum Pub Pub Pub 8:30 RM Pub Trials Session 9:00 9:00 9:00 Session Session Hubbert Session of Cato Martin 9:00 Simpson 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 Fireshow Merry Hell 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:30 The 10:30 10:30 Bagdhaddies Blazin’ 10:30 Tide Lines 11.00 Fiddles 11.00 11.00 11.00 Ben is a guitarist, arranger and songwriter. Seeking his bouzouki, the sweet chords of his mountain Armstrong - Talkin Village Hall inspiration from the likes of Steve Morse and dulcimer, the plaintive frailing banjo & the pulsing Frankie will teach some vocal games, chants and Tommy Emmanuel, his style is diverse and high reeds of his melodeon. songs. Have fun finding power and range, and impact on the guitar. The performance will include “It may be easier and quicker to list the talents that explore some of the thrilling sounds our voices can original material and arrangements of other songs. Pete Coe doesn’t have.” Andy Kershaw. make! This workshop is for anyone who is open to A respected music teacher and champion of DAY FOUR finding out how we can use our voices with power performances by young people at Music on the Marr. and relaxation, and with playfulness and awareness. Sunday 22nd July No prior musical experience is necessary. Frankie has been teaching a wide range of professionals and 1.00 - Andy Cutting non-professionals for over 40 years. Frankie Armstrong has been singing professionally since 1964. She has made 10 solo albums, written her autobiography As Far As the Eye Can Sing. Her latest book is with Janet Rodgers, Acting and Singing with Archetypes. Sign up at the festival office. Workshops and 11.00 - Speakeasy in The Duke 3.15 - Church service with the Come along to share songs, spoken word, poetry Special Events and stories at our laid back “Speakeasy” event in the inspiring music of Taizè bar of The Duke. Everyone is invited - and anyone 9.30 - Whistles with Maggie can come along to sing, play, read or just listen. Join Over 100,000 young people from around the in our celebrations of the 10th anniversary - and if world make pilgrimages to Taizé each year for you want to write and bring something along on that prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work. Feeney Part 2 - School Hall Andy Cutting is a soulful and technically Through the community’s ecumenical outlook, they Add some polish to yesterday’s work. theme, feel free to do so! outstanding melodeon practitioner. Many of are encouraged to live in the spirit of kindness,

his tunes have been purloined along the way: simplicity and reconciliation. The Rev Edward 1.00 - Clog Dance Workshop. some considered contemporary classics on the Johnsen will lead the service. 10.00 - Ukes Improvers with Ian folk scene. Andy is also a warm and emotive K Brown - St Peter’s Church School Yard. Lead by Hadrian performer, modestly engaging his audiences with If you know the chords C, F and G and can change his self-deprecating wit and then flooring them 4.50 - Brian Peters comfortably between them this is for you. We will Clog Dancers. with downright staggering musicianship. As well sound amazing at the end of the session! We have as a thorough grounding in the English tradition, spare ukuleles but if you have your own bring it. If Andy’s influences extend way beyond these isles, you did the class yesterday then this is the next step. particularly to the music of Central France and to There will then be a performance at 11am. the storming Quebecois tradition. He came swiftly Performances to prominence with the innovative Blowzabella. He has recorded with Sting, John Illsley (Dire Straits), 10.00 - A Ramble with a and was recently asked to join The Who for an St Peter’s Church acoustic concert in aid of the Teenage Cancer Difference and Mark Richards Trust. Music on the Marr is on the edge of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 11.00 - Ukes Improvers Performance Explore one of its most beautiful corners, Geltsdale. 2.15 - Pete Coe Local walking guide writer, Mark Richards, will lead 12.00 - Ben Draper Described as “a one man folk industry” by BBC a morning’s walk through this lovely valley. Mark is a Radio 2, Pete has been a professional musician real enthusiast and is often on radio and television since 1971, playing at festivals concerts, clubs, sharing his joy in walking and the great outdoors. dances and schools throughout Britain. During The walk is suitable for adults and children. Sturdy the ‘70s he toured and recorded with Chris Coe, shoes or light walking boots would be a good idea. was a member of the legendary New Victory Brian believes strongly in the power and relevance Meet outside The Duke. Band and with Nic Jones, Tony Rose and again, Chris Coe, he was a member of Bandoggs. In the of the old songs, specialising particularly in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s he toured and recorded great ballads of the British Isles, riveting stories 10.30 - Find out what your with Red Shift but since 1985 he’s mainly worked set in music: “Brian Peters plunges deep into as a soloist and earned an enviable reputation. the ancient songs, finds their power, mystery, voice can do with Frankie His strong, distinctive voice is enhanced by his evil, drollery and courage, and brings them to instrumental versatility, the ringing strings of us fresh”, declared one American writer. His

16 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 17 accompaniments on three instruments give a wide Queen & The Jester Scottish Lowland Pipes (Northumbrian half-longs), the Year finalists, Graham Mackenzie (fiddle) and range of musical textures to his songs, and his live The Queen is troubled and searching for a solution Galician bagpies (gaitas), and Uillean pipes. David Shedden (pipes/whistles) alongside BBC presentation, Songs of Trial & Triumph, focusing on in story, so she calls upon the Royal Court Jester Their original songs and tunes have won awards Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner Innes White ballads from the Child collection, has been well- to cheer her with some songs. However, the Royal in , where they ran the Tasmanian Folk (guitar/mandolin). received at many festivals. Though in performance Court Jester is a law unto himself and knows better Festival. John started singing the songs of Robert Having performed together for many years, 2018 saw he’s not a traditional diehard, including songs from than to pander to the Queen’s fickle fancies. Join Burns at the age of 6. the official launch of the band and their debut album unexpected sources, and never forgetting that folk him in his attempt to pacify her Highness, whilst ‘Road to the North’. Predominantly compiled of self- music is meant to be accessible, and fun. amusing the Royal Subjects, pleasing himself and penned tunes, the album draws upon influences from ultimately striving to keep his head intact! 3.20 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. traditional Scottish fiddle and pipe music, in particular 6.00 - Stew Simpson One woman show with Ursula the Highland and Gaelic traditions. 12.30 - The Reservoir Story Holden Gill Castle Carrock Waterworks opened on July 22nd 6.00 - Little Man Jack: a Magical 1909 to supply Carlisle with a fresh supply of drinking water - the result of 6 years of hard labour by 700 Adventure for Curious Children navvies, over a decade of municipal argument, and a visionary design. Rumour has it that a dozen different Meet on the Marr Long before Harry Potter was even thought of, places for thirsty diggers to drink away their toil there was Jack. In ‘Little Man Jack’ Ursula Holden sprung up in the village. Gill transports one of England’s oldest and most Tom Speight and Ian K Brown present “The well loved children’s story characters firmly into Reservoir Story”. A tale of intrigue, argument and the 21st century with a seamlessly interwoven tale bloodymindedness. telling, music & heaps of interaction. Join Jack on Find out how and why it all happened - in specially Stew’s performance will be celebrating the release his ongoing quest to please his poor mother and composed song, original poetry, storytelling and of his brand new album ‘Milk Man Son’. Without the meet all the magical friends and creatures that beautiful old photographs. And then enjoy the 45 framework of Hadrian’s Union, Stew has allowed help or hinder his journey. himself to explore different sides of his journey minute stroll around the reservoir while you’re with us. into folk music using his roots in traditional mining songs from the North East of England from his 6.45 - Talkin Fellas previous show Hyem, through to Folk and Rock cross over songs by Led Belly/Nirvana and to his more outrageous surrealist poetry. Stew’s show is eclectic, raw and real, with the ideals of a punk, With her very own version of A Midsummer Night’s some sweet guitar picking and the aid of a tank top Dream Ursula takes up the play’s poignant themes from a 70 year old shanty enthusiast, audiences of arranged marriage, rebellion, awakening and are promised to be moved to tears, some of them acceptance and presents them in an insightful and will be of joy. A true English eccentric. thoroughly uplifting retelling of the Shakespeare classic, In plain English (apart from a peppering 2.00 - The Life, Times and Music of verse) and with bags of mischief, music & jaw Castle Carrock School of Robbie Burns with John & dropping background into the significance of all the old midsummer mayhem. For adults and children 6+. 11.00 - Children’s Concert: The Caroline Bushby The Talkin Fellas return to Music on the Marr 5.00 - Assynt following a number of successful gigs in local pubs, clubs and festivals. Their original, lively folk songs focus on the characters, landscape and natural history of North Cumbria and the Borders. Birds, bilberries and Border Reivers all feature in their foot stomping repertoire. Marquee Stage

12.30 - Zimbaremabwe Mbira Vibes Originally from Tasmania, Australia, John and Multi award winning Assynt were named ‘Up and Zimbaremabwe are a musical collective led by Caroline now live in Newcastle upon Tyne. Both Coming Artist of the Year 2018’ at the Scots Trad Linos Wengara Magaya. They perform, practise accomplished singers, between them they play Celtic Music Awards. This Glasgow based folk trio are and teach Zimbabwean arts particularly Mbira harp, whistles, guitar, bouzouki, Scottish smallpipes, former BBC Radio Scotland Young Musician of 18 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 19 based music, both traditional and modern. England and Scotland. The name originates from and for the people. Born of years criss-crossing Mbira is a traditional Zimbabwean instrument the locality and mindset of the band drawn from Dublin’s folk, squat and experimental scenes, their used in Shona culture for spiritual ceremonies. various points along Hadrian’s Wall. They come two albums ‘Cold Old Fire’ (2013, recorded under Zimbaremabwe are based in Brighton, with their from a variety of music genres: Folk, Punk, Rock, former name Lynched) and Rough Trade debut musical roots in Zimbabwe and the spiritual values Blues, Celtic, Jazz and Ska which is reflected in ‘Between The Earth and Sky’ (2017) breath new life of traditional Zimbabwean culture. They play and the variety of the music they create. into ancient/modern rituals with urban punk fervour, teach traditional sets, centered around Mbira, as The music is varied and HU’s shows and rural psycho-geography and, underpinning it all, the well as Mbira Reggae style. We welcome them and recordings are an exciting experience. Waltzes, eternal drone of the uilleann pipes. the spirit of Zimbabwe to MOM for the second time. ballads, music hall, Morris, jigs, reels and drinking Lankum are the type of band you never knew you songs can all be found in the Union; some of it were searching for. A group of individuals united A big welcome back to Music on the Marr for multi award winning Merry Hell with their joyful, uplifting delivered with a political edge and a helping of by a gang mentality whose close vocal harmonies, folk-rock and a message for troubled times. Native daftness. They have been our resident band since instrumental interplay and dramatic storytelling pin to the North-West of England, the 8 piece musical the beginning; no one has been injured – yet. you to the seat and revive the spirit. They show charabanc was built from the embers of the much that folk music can be angry, progressive and is loved folk punk band The Tansads, developing a still a vital force today. life and feel all of its own. Their energy and passion 5.00 - Public excluded for soundchecks is complimented by their love of what they do and desire to share hope and togetherness with as 9.00 - Merry Hell many people as are willing to listen. 7.00 - Amy Hill Through 5 well received albums and hundreds of gigs, they’ve offered voices of hope and beacons of light to anyone valuing both melody and positive humanity. Their live appearances have 2.00 - Opera-lele won many admirers, a recent review referred to “every performance is a celebration” and they are currently holders of Folking.com’s Best Live Band Award. The band appear as either a full electric 8 piece or a slimmed down, more acoustic 6 piece.

Amy is a musician from the Scottish borders who believes the songs she writes reflect the landscapes in which she’s grown up - or at least Opera-lele is a crossover act specialising in those are often what she thinks when she sings singing music from opera and musical theatre them. In 2017 Amy released her debut EP, ‘Getting accompanied by the emotionally powerful yet Ready for a Swim’, alongside friend and fiddle- Be part of Music on the Marr history understated twang of the ukulele. Having both player Cameron Newell. The tracks on the album trained as singers at the Royal College of Music are rooted in the nature and sounds of the East Relive the bands, fun and atmosphere of our unique and Goldsmiths College in London, George Bartle Neuk, and the album itself was a collaborative festival in a special anniversary booklet. effort, with friends and family contributing to and Amanda Harkett have gone on individually to artwork, photography and the recording process. forge careers for themselves as entertainers of the Over the past year Amy has been travelling and This celebratory souvenir is one not to be missed by anyone highest calibre. also working with refugees in Greece. She spent who’s enjoyed Marr festivities since 2010. In 2016, Opera-lele burst onto the music scene. 6 months with a grassroots community centre in 48-pages packed with pictures and reminiscences in a quality, Audiences were stunned and excited by what they Northern Greece, teaching music, singing and matt-finish publication. English. She also travelled to Cuba and Jamaica, saw and heard. Since then, Opera-lele has been Be a part of Music on the Marr history. Order your copy now and counting standing ovations at music festivals, taking music lessons and working in community your name will be included within the booklet in a unique roll of theatres, churches and even castles across the UK projects. and overseas. After a barnstorming show at MOM honour. last year you demanded their return. We listened. The finished publication will be posted out in the autumn so will 7.40 - Lankum include 2019’s highlights to complete the full decade. Lankum are a four-piece group from Dublin, Ireland 3.15 - Hadrian’s Union with an alchemical ability to combine traditional folk roots with contemporary undercurrents to forge All profits will go to festival running costs. music that is dark, mysterious and transcendental. Just £12 plus £2 package & posting Comprising brothers Ian Lynch (uillean pipes, tin whistle, vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals, guitar) alongside Cormac Mac Diarmada (fiddle) and Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion, vocals), Lankum Hadrian’s Union are a five piece Contemporary Order your copy at the festival office or by channel a diverse set of influences and histories Folk Rock band from the debatable lands of #PleaseDance to create a beautifully rare thing: a songbook from emailing [email protected]

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The Magnificent Tea Emporium Casbah Coffee Wet your whistle with a fine selection of locally brewed real ales, craft beers and ciders. Situated in the small marquee at the rear of the Cumbria’s funkiest little coffee van, Casbah Coffee As well as the menu below there’ll be a new brew, The Duke, a 4.0% dark ale made with the Watson Institute is back again to serve up Cumbrian speciality Amarillo hop, plus more ciders and guest beers. We are open on Friday from 2pm to 4pm serving coffee to festival goers plus organic hot chocolates delicious home baking, teas and coffees. and a selection of teas plus he’ll have all your On Saturday and Sunday breakfasts will be weekend newspapers. available from 8.30am to 10am. Choices available To find Mike just follow the sweet coffee aroma Parsons Pledge 4.0% include any combination of freshly cooked bacon, and the eclectic sounds drifting out from his little A complex recipe giving a delicate sausage and egg served in a roll. Vegetarian red van. He’ll be serving from Saturday morning golden amber bitter, with a toasted options are available. Breakfast cereals, tea or through to Sunday evening. caramel/biscuit medium body and coffee are also on the menu. lasting head From 10am each day there will be a choice of cakes, bakes and pastries both sweet and The Duke of Cumberland Marshall Stout 5.0% Castle Carrock’s pub will add to the multi-cultural savoury, filled rolls, tea, coffee and cold drinks. All A dark stout full of rich coffee and flavour of the festival serving delicious continental Derwent Blonde 4.2% available to eat in or take out. chocolate flavours Finest lager malt and an addition of wheat street food and barbecues as well as favourites producing a delicious refreshing golden such as hotdogs, chips, pasties and sausage rolls. ale. Excellent lacing and long-lasting head, On Thursday evening, there’ll be a barbecue and MoM’s Kitchen ending with a satisfying dry/zesty finish Located on the Marr, a team of volunteers will chips along with bar food. be serving locally sourced and homemade food On Friday there will be a lunchtime barbecue and Dark Mild 3.7% including filled rolls, savoury pastries, pancakes, in the evening it will be curry time and pies on the CAMRA Solway Branch Beer of pizzas, salad boxes, cakes and bakes. Food bar. Please note there is no hog roast this year. The Year 2011. Follows Whitwell Mutineer 4.4% and drinks will be available Thursday and Friday On Saturday lunchtime there’ll be both meat and Mark’s old Kendal recipe A golden bitter made with finest pale evenings and throughout the festival weekend. and vegetarian/vegan paella and barbecue. In malts, traditional hops and a hint of the evening, both beef and vegetable chilli and caramel, giving a beautiful amber ale All money raised by MTE and MoM’s Kitchen barbecue. with a rich mouthfeel goes to St Peter’s Church Restoration Fund and On Sunday, there’ll be mouth-watering pulled The Watson Hall Restoration Fund. pork rolls with stuffing and apple sauce for lunch, Pale Ale 4.4% alongside a barbecue, and the last evening rounds Classic English pale ale brewed off with another barbecue. to Whitwell and Mark’s old recipe Silloth Porter 4.5% The pub will be open from noon with last orders at Dark rich porter with hints of chocolate 11.30pm. Please note times are approximate and and oranges. Very quaffable the menu is subject to change.

Scrumptious Snacks and Drinks Grune Point 4.6% Scrumptious will be selling local homemade ice A delicious single Citra hopped pale Music On The Marr cream, smoothies, ice cold drinks, sweets and ale, full of citrus aroma and flavor lighting accessories to brighten up the night. Special Brew 4%

Located next to festival office. Delicious thirst quenching pale, golden ale, specially brewed for MOM with musical fruit

Carlisle State Bitter 3.7% 3.7% ABV. English bitter based on CIDER - Rosie’s Pig the original State Management recipe Various flavours over the weekend

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First Aid Toilets Contact a steward or the festival office if you need They are in The Watson Institute and The Duke of #PleaseDance assistance. A first aider will be on site. Cumberland. A disabled access toilet is on the car Doctors Surgery Brampton 016977 2551 park behind The Duke, opposite The Lawn. A full Police 0845 33 00247 range of toilets and showers are on the campsite. Vet 016977 2318 Emergency Evacuation Campers In the event of an emergency evacuation please Please display your camping permit and leave the make your way to the car park on the junction site no later than 2pm on Monday leaving nothing behind The Duke of Cumberland opposite The The Hexham Morris Men behind. Please take your entire rubbish home Lawn. Became a familiar sight at events like the Morpeth with you. Gathering and the Ovingham Goose Fair. They have Transport Dogs earned an excellent reputation for their dancing and Buses between Carlisle & Newcastle stop in Dogs are welcome at MOM. Please clean up after are now established as one of the best Cotswold Brampton about every hour, 4 miles from the them everywhere and keep them under control. Morris Dance teams in the North. They perform a festival. Some trains between the same cities stop You are in sheep rearing country; that’s how we full and varied programme of Cotswold dances from at Brampton railway station (locally called Brampton make a living. Farmers are within their rights to Fieldtown, Ducklington and Lichfield also border Junction).This station is a mile and a half from shoot first and ask you if you mind later. Keep your and North East rapper sword dances. Brampton and three miles from the festival. dog on a lead and stick to footpaths. If you find yourself surrounded by cows with followers or young Local taxi firms: intimidating cattle let your dog go – you will both be Brampton Taxi 016977 3386 Carlisle Clog and Sword Dancers much safer. Airbus 2000 016977 3735 Traditional Clog, English Longsword and Step Atkinson 016977 3929 Dancing side, based in Carlisle. They have had a Telecoms We are aiming to have wifi available across the long and chequered past, with various incarnations Festival Administration Marr and campsite for the festival. The best place to and monikers. The side is predominantly clog Can be contacted on 01228 670329. Leave a charge your phone is in the Watson Institute. and step, with some long sword dances being message and we will phone you back as soon as perfected. They have, in the past, performed we can.

Rapper, Border, Cotswold and North West, and has danced in many places, both in Britain and The Hexhamshire Lasses overseas. The Cloggies are predominantly female, The Hexhamshire Lasses began during the winter but do not exclude males from taking part. Please Refill and Help us Stay Green of 1992-93, with just 8 dancers. Now they are a well-established dance side. The lasses perform We think the best way to deal with recycling is not plastic waste and other stuff created by our festival in their own style a repertoire of traditional dances to create rubbish in the first place and we have going into land fill. using garlands, sticks and handkerchiefs together Hadrian Clog been working hard to reduce it. As usual you will Most of the food you will buy at MOM this year is Hadrian Clog are a local clog dancing team with several compositions of their own. A selection be asked to pay a £2 deposit for your refillable and sourced, produced, cooked and served by local based along Hadrian’s Wall who dance traditional of lively step clog dances is also included in the durable polycarbonate pint, half pint beer glass people and presented in compostable containers. steps from , Durham, Cumbria, repertoire performed by the Hexham Clog team. The and £3 for a wine glass. At the end of the day or Many of the used containers will be given to our Westmorland, , Shetland Isles, Cape Lasses kit consists of royal blue pinafore dresses at the end of the festival hand it in and get your allotmenteers to help produce more food. We Breton, Scottish Highlands, Quebec, Ottawa and and white blouses trimmed with gingham. Hats and money back. Alternatively, take it home with you as encourage you to bring your own cups and plates. more. They try to keep the traditions authentic, with black shoes with bells also form part of our outfit. a memento. We have reduced the capacity of our generator to the styles reflecting their place of origin. We are determined to reduce single use plastic burn less diesel and are using more LED lighting to waste even further. If you have a water bottle reduce pollution. please refill it from the tap near the school. We will If you create rubbish please take it home with you. be happy to sell you one of our new MOM branded If you can’t, we have been working with Cumbria reusable water bottles at a modest price. We also Waste Recycling Ltd to make recycling easier. You have a variety of reusable coffee mugs on sale - will find clearly marked bins around the site; please some in bone china. In this way we will reduce the use them. 24 Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance Find us on Be pithy and witty on #pleasedance 25 THE WALKS Site Map and Ticket Pricing

If you fancy going for a nice walk while you’re staying in Castle Carrock, here are a few ideas. Ask any villager and they should be able to help you too. Please stick to footpaths,

keep your dog on a lead, avoid fields with livestock and close all gates behind you. 1. School‘ 8 Greenwell and see if you can find the mysterious 2. St Peter s Church 2 fairy doors (stick to the footpath). 1 3. Marquee 2 hours - If you fancy stretching your legs a bit more, the head up the road towards Geltsdale, 4. Watson Institute one of the hidden gems of this part of Cumbria. 5. Magnificent Tea 5 You can park on a sharp bend at Jockey Shield or take 20 minutes to walk there. Then head down Emporium 4 3 towards the Gelt before doing a loop up into the 6 hills. Either turn left and go up through woodland 6. The Duke before then circling clockwise past the Greens, or 7. Festival Office turn right once you’ve gone over the bridge and do the opposite. It’s all good paths, if a little steep in 8. Weaving/Puppet 7 5min walk 45 minutes - Around the reservoir is a nice way places, and the views are beautiful. building to Campsite to see a bit of nearby countryside. Walk past the Duke up towards Geltsdale until you see a finger See also - Mark Richards guided ramble on post off to the right near a grit bin and a street Sunday morning. lamp after about 200 yards. Then just keep the reservoir on your right hand side all the way round. Dave Norman‘s pottery is worth a look. Head It can get a bit muddy in places but it’s level and towards Geltsdale; It’s on the right after Virginia Under 17’s Free very pleasant, partly on grass tracks, partly on a Cottage. quiet road. You’ll recognize where you come out again at the bottom of Peth Lonning. If you have time during your visit to Music on the Marr pop down the road to Brampton. Thursday Evening Give what you can on the night. We suggest £5 30 minutes - A walk up the Kilwren lonning signed The market town, four miles from Castle Carrock, Garth Head, between Derek’s antique furniture not only has all the shops you’ll need to stock up Friday Evening £27 shop and the old village shop, takes you over for your festival weekend, but some excellent art a small beck and then up to Garth Marr before galleries and lots of antique shops. Pop into Colin Saturday up to 7pm £17 looping back down again to the village. It’s a Moore’s traditional butchers shop to buy some beautiful lonning bisecting fields and wildlife, and Cumbrian delights or relax with a coffee and cake at Saturday Evening £27 a lovely amble which also produces a bit of height Off the Wall Cafe or Mr Brown’s. The Howard Arms too. Come back through a farm gate at the top to and Nags Head pubs are noted for their good food All Day Saturday £34 the right and then just follow the road back to the too. If history is your thing you should visit the 19th village. century Pre-Raphaelite St Martin’s Church designed Sunday up to 7pm £17 by Philip Webb which has magnificent stained glass £27 30 minutes - Walk out of the village towards windows by Edward Burne-Jones, manufactured Sunday Evening Brampton and towards Greenwell before turning by William Morris. Or take a walk around Brampton £34 left just before you get to the road bridge. Then Old Church on the banks of the River Irthing with All Day Sunday gravestones dating back to the 14th century that follow this track to the beck before heading left up £79 a lonning that loops back to the village. You can record many trades – shoemakers, butchers, Weekend Ticket (Fri, Sat, Sun) then follow this to the other end of the village, and glovers, even a violin maker. extend the walk by joining the road for 200 yards before heading left for Tottergill and coming to the reservoir (see above). Alternatively carry on to

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The Appreciations

Rhona Brown, Graham Whitby, John Liddell and Keith Brown for the loan of their fields. The Cumberland News, BBC Radio Cumbria, Castle Carrock School and their friends, Castle Carrock Parochial Church Council and St Peter’s Restoration Group, Castle Carrock & Geltsdale Parish Council, The Watson Institute Committee, Julie, Sophie and staff at The Duke of Cumberland Inn ,Ian K Brown Music, Ben Draper Music. The Pennine Artisans. Pete Crouch & Lindsay Carigiet-Bell at Liquid Studios, Tricia Meynell Photography, David Ambridge Photography, Johnny Waugh for his straw, Neil Elsender Health & Safety Consultant. Dave & SheIla Hassall, Kit & Dr Andrew Hollings, Rachael & Richard Clarke, Cath Renolds CAMRA. Mark Richards, Matthew Brown Flashlight Films, Toxic The Owd Carrick Cat. Dougie Bowman & Derek Knight for transport. Tom Speight, David Rawsthorn, Dave Helliwell and many others who give freely of their time, ideas and enthusiasm. Sound, light and logistics: Noel Graham & Brian Entwhistle. Sound & Light: Jona Aal, Nicky & Snowy, Steve Ridley. Marquees: Cumbria Marquees. Security: Pro-Tect UK. Website: Neil Widdowson. MCs : Keith Donnelly, Stew Simpson, Steve Ridley, Ian K Brown, Helen Hutchinson. Chris Pentney, Paul Adams.

Stage Management: Myrna Reay, Patsy Wilson, Karen Jones, Mike France, Steve Ridley, Heather Tipler. Our musicians, singers, dancers and artists, many of them have played and entertained for little or nothing. All our dedicated, cheerful and hardworking stewards. The people of Castle Carrock and surrounding area for their unabashed enthusiasm for live music in general and MOM in particular.

For help and support we thank: Castle Carrock Parish Council and The Duke of Cumberland Inn.

This programme was designed by Liquid Studios T: 01228 830800 | www.liquidstudios.co.uk

Music on the Marr is produced and directed by Geltsdale Arts Ltd, a not for profit organisation