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Simonsbath Festival 2017 1 May – 23 June May Day Simonsbath Festival 2017 1 May – 23 June May Day Don’t miss Festival’sSimonsbath Bank Holiday Monday 1 May – 2pm celebrations MAY DAY May Day Simonsbath Festival 2017 • Maypole dancing and country dancing welcomes spring to Exmoor on by the children of Exford School Bank Holiday Monday 1 May at 2pm • Live music from Spinach for Norman on Exford Village Green, with May Day • Competitions including tug o’ war celebrations for all the family. • Exford hand bells • Tea and cakes • Raffle For information and competition entry details please telephone Marian Lloyd on 01643 831451 or email [email protected] Simonsbath Festival 1 May – 23 June Don’t miss Festival’sSimonsbath Festival events diary at a glance celebrations MAY DAY Events held at St Luke’s Church are highlighted below Date Event page Phyllida Lloyd May 1 – June 21 Simonsbath Festival Sketch Boxes 3 Patron Simonsbath Festival May 6 Fromage en Feu – concert 4 May 10 Mining and Mystery at Wheal Eliza – walk 22 May 10 David Kennard – talk 4 Spring has arrived. While the weather may not always May 14 Lyra Vocal Ensemble – concert 5 be on message, you can count on Simonsbath Festival May 17 Jochen Langbein – talk 5 to pop up with another stimulating mix of opera, jazz, May 20 New Generation Artist Maia Roberts – concert 6 classical and world music concerts, walks and talks, and this year an award-winning theatre production to mark May 24 Rob Wilson-North – talk 7 two centuries since Jane Austen’s death. May 26 Rob Wilson-North – walk 7 and 22 May 27 The Dime Notes – concert 8 The festival’s take on art has taken a new turn this year too with the Sketch Box project which invites you to May 31 Graham Wills – talk at Simonsbath Sawmill 8 and 21 sketch what you see when you light upon one of the June 3 Albion Quartet – concert 9 boxes placed around St Luke’s Church – you can also June 7 Robin Ravilious – talk 10 pen a poem if you prefer. June 10 Kabasa – concert 11 While gumboots may not feature in this year’s June 14 A Walk through Two Iron Ages – walk 22 programme, a wealth of newly discovered archive material June 14 Austen’s Women – theatre 12 about the Knight family, who made the Exmoor we know June 17 Pop-up Opera: The Secret Marriage – concert 13 today, and a presentation of the revelatory photographs of June 21 Matthew Fort – talk 13 James Ravilious are the subjects of two unmissable talks. June 23 Midsummer Family and Community Concert at And, besides the rousing musical traditions of klezmer The Moorland Hall Wheddon Cross 15 and Latin America, the Lyra Ensemble from St Petersburg transcend the ordinary with the highest standards of Information and booking 16–19 musicianship and the intoxicating choral music of the Friends of Simonsbath Festival information and application form 19–20 Russian Orthodox Church. Other venues: Here’s to the arrival of spring on Exmoor with the Simonsbath Sawmill 21 Simonsbath Festival. Simonsbath House Hotel 23 Exmoor Society 22 www.simonsbathfestival.org.uk Exmoor National Park 25 Welcome to Simonsbath Festival 2017 Simonsbath Festival once again This year we’re thrilled also to feature a theatre welcomes the arrival of spring to production which, in a bold revisiting of some of Exmoor with May Day celebrations literature’s most celebrated works, brings 13 of Jane Austen’s heroines to life – a fitting way to on Exford Village Green. mark the bicentenary of her death this year. This year bank holiday Monday falls Besides the events in Simonsbath and the May Day conveniently on 1 May, when the children of celebrations in Exford, the festival continues its Exford School dance around the maypole to work with local schools with the project the live music from the local band Spinach ‘Songs from the Exmoor Forest’ to revive interest for Norman, and there are other fun activities in and knowledge of the traditional music and to enjoy on the village green, including the songs of Exmoor. magical sound of Exford hand bells. Paul Wilson, from the folk and community arts Spring and summer are capricious visitors to organisation Wren Music, is holding a series of Exmoor. Their time of arrival and departure are workshops in local schools to teach the traditional unpredictable, so arranging anything outdoors music and songs collected on Exmoor from the always depends on the kindness of weather. early 20th century to the 1980s. The workshops For six years now Simonsbath Festival culminate in a Midsummer family and community has been celebrating the cultural heritage concert on 23 June at the Moorland Hall, of Exmoor, with traditional May Day and Wheddon Cross. Midsummer festivities to open and close the Over the past years the festival has made donations festival, while inviting musicians from abroad to to local charities such as Exmoor Search and celebrate their cultural heritage during the six Rescue, the Beacon Centre cancer unit at Taunton’s weeks in between. Musgrove Hospital, the South Molton branch of the Royal British Legion, West Somerset Food Our aim is to fill the festival programme with Cupboard in Minehead and Exmoor Community as much variety as possible, including opera, Youth Club. jazz, classical and world music concerts and all kinds of other events, including talks and walks Enjoy the festival! Victoria Thomas, Festival Director and an art project. ©GeoffBayliss 2 Simonsbath Festival 1 May – 23 June Simonsbath Festival Sketch Boxes Don’t miss out Monday 1 May – Friday 23 June Book your For the past five years the art exhibition, featuring work by local artists, has been an Festival important part of Simonsbath Festival. events NOW! This year the festival puts everyone in the frame by hosting Sketch Boxes to encourage old and • by telephoning young alike to draw, read or write inside. Marian Lloyd on 01643 831451 The Sketch Boxes have been created especially • by emailing for the festival out of the highly successful [email protected] Exmoor Poetry Boxes which have confounded • by post using the booking form expectations by collecting more than 5,500 on page 17 poems from passers-by over the last three years. ‘How such a simple idea has been so generously embraced is quite extraordinary,’ Please turn to pages 16 & 17 says Mr Jelley. ‘It illustrates just how keen people are to add their mark.’ for full details of ticket prices The Poetry Boxes captured words from travellers from around the world, and in a myriad of and a booking form languages too, so this year’s Sketch Boxes will put the universal language of drawing centre stage, though there is still plenty of space for poetry. Becoming a Friend of Simonsbath The boxes will make their first appearance at Simonsbath Festival’s May Day celebrations Festival for as little as £15 a year on Exford Village Green on Bank Holiday Monday 1 May, and will then be located around entitles you to special block-booking Simonsbath from 2 May until 21 June, maintaining a constant presence throughout the festival discounts on tickets and ensures that for people to pen as little or as much as they like. your name is added to our mailing Towards the end of the festival they will be displayed at St Luke’s Church, for Matthew Fort’s list while at the same time helping to talk on Wednesday 21 June, and then at the Moorland Hall, Wheddon Cross, for the support the festival. Midsummer Family and Community Concert which closes the festival on Friday 23 June. If you would like to join the Friends of So hunt out the Sketch Boxes and make your mark for Simonsbath Festival. Simonsbath Festival, please complete For more information telephone Sandy Schott on 01643 831844 the application form on page 20. or email [email protected] www.simonsbathfestival.org.uk 3 St Luke’s Wednesday 10 May – 7.30pm David Kennard Local farmer David Kennard, whose DVD The Year of the Working Sheepdog has sold 80,000 copies worldwide, shares St Luke’s some insights into how he juggles Jan van der Gouda (aka band life as a farmer and film-maker. dictator Murray Benjamin) accordion Saturday 6 May – 7.30pm Eloïse La Comtesse de Camembert (Seona Pritchard) violin David talks about the highs and lows of livestock farming and the unlikely mix of farming and film-making, interspersed with the humour In partnership with Babs Wensleydale Under One Sun (Rachel Llewellyn-Jones) clarinet that is a must for anyone who spends a life working with animals. Jimi Caerphilly David and his wife Debbie have farmed the North Devon coastline at Fromage en Feu (Thom Thomas-Watkins) guitar Borough Farm, Mortehoe, for the past 25 years, keeping 600 breeding Louis Parmigiano ewes and 60 head of cattle. Growing financial pressure in the 1990s led The deliciously irresistible (Alex Pearson) bass ‘‘ them to diversify, introducing sheepdog displays for summer visitors. Fromage en Feu is a faux-French The shows have continued for the past 18 years with 25 shows five-piece acoustic band of These Cheeses attracting more than 8,000 people a year. highly talented musicians with a are on Fire! David’s film The Year of the Working Sheepdog grew out of the success joyously upbeat and adventurous ‘‘Faye Hatcher, BBC Radio Gloucestershire of the sheepdog displays and led to two books and an entry in the repertoire which includes klezmer, Sunday Times best-sellers list. In 2007 the Channel 5 children’s series café culture and the rich musical Refreshments available and canapés, Mist: Sheepdog Tales brought David’s dogs to a wider audience and traditions of the Balkans, all prepared by Sue Croft and costing produced an avid young following for the Borough Farm sheepdogs.
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