Just
before you settle down for
Christmas dream of warm summer
nights, the Towersey skyline of tall poplar trees, bats
flying by, red kites soaring high, music and friends in
3 major venues (bedtime stories for the young ones), and
book a diary entry of 27-31 August in your new
one.
The Imagined Village at
FDH
Festival Dance
House (FDH); home for many of our headline bands,
will this year welcome The Imagined
Village.
The Imagined Village started back in 2004 as a
way of exploring musical roots and identity of English
musicians and music makers.
The show at
Towersey will feature Chris Wood, Eliza Carthy, Martin
Carthy, Simon Emmerson, Johnny
Kalsi and more.
Happy Christmas from
Towersey Village Festival Here is just a taster
of what's new in
2009
Celebrating the past with an eye on the
future! At
Towersey we like to keep an eye on the future,
whilst celebrating the
past. We
modernise and upgrade whilst retaining the good
stuff that has gone before. But whatever we do, we
will pack full this 5-day Festival with music,
dance, workshops, colour, spectacle and wall-to-wall
Festival atmosphere.
Facelifts and Relocations (Not Reality TV -
but the Festival
Venues!) 2009 will see a bigger and
upgraded Concert Stage featuring
The Waterson Family, The Spooky Men’s Chorale,
Karine Polwart Band and many more. We
have a newly sited and improved Children’s
Centre and a home for hundreds of camping
families as we make the change for Site 1 camping to
those with Children’s bookings only - ‘a real
family site’. A
new ‘Chill Out Zone’ on Site 2, a
gathering point in the middle of the site for that
‘coffee and book moment’ the ‘meet you there place’, the
visual arts, the get away from the hubbub space or just
a spot to ‘chill’.
Three New
Stages The famous Towersey ‘Showground’ will
be a good deal bigger and house
THREE NEW performance stages instead of the
traditional seated Arena. The 3 stages
spread across the Showground will feature dance
displays, music, comedy, magic, puppetry, clowning and
storytelling. Musical and comic walkabouts will
wander the Showground with stiltwalkers, jugglers and
spectacular street theatre throughout the weekend.
The Mighty Zulu Nation bring a
kaleidoscope of dynamic traditional African culture and
we are still talking to a wealth of international
performers set to turn the Showground into a whirl of
spectacle, colour and
excitement.
