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Release - Workshops
Press release
Sidmouth FolkWeek
It's All About The Taking Part?
workshops galore!
One
of the many special things about Sidmouth FolkWeek (3rd - 10th August) is the chance to
get hands on! The festival is peerless in the breadth of its workshop programme
- with an impressive 240 workshops on offer - from one-off tasters to week-long
series, from beginners' sessions to masterclasses.
Whether you want to learn an
instrument, a new singing or dance style or enjoy some communal music-making,
there's a workshop with your name on it. It's a chance to get up-close and
personal with some of the fantastic musicians and dancers booked at the festival.
Our
dance workshop programme
features a global foot-stepping feast from flirtatious Flamenco to high-kicking
Zimbabwean, from graceful Breton to Appalachian flatfooting, from Contra dance
to Eastern European dance steps via Bourr?es to Polskas. British traditions are
well-represented with Irish Set, Welsh, Playford and a solid line-up of Clog
and Step, Border Morris, North West Morris, Molly and Cotswold Morris styles!
Kerry Fletcher starts
the week with an intro to dance for absolute beginners and Martyn
Harvey helps you
improve your ceilidh style later in the week. Those new to folk dancing and
ceilidh get help in the form of Madeleine Smith who shows us how it's done in social dance
with a series of five basic skills workshops for complete beginners and those
with limited experience.
Music workshops are
just as varied with a Festival Concert Band with John
Kirkpatrick, Big Band
with Nick & Mary Barber, Street Band workshops leading to taking
part in the famous Torchlight Procession, Spoons Orchestra with Jo May,
fiddle with Kirsty
Cotter, bodhran with Will Lang, Zimbabwean traditions with Chartwell Dutiro, melodeon
with Ed
Rennie, country dance tunes with Tim Laycock & Colin Thompson,
Scan Tester tunes with Will
Duke, guitar with Gavin Davenport, ukulele with Clive Harvey,
Eastern European fiddle tunes with Lebedek,
instrumental arrangements with Pete Coe plus sessions for accordion and
concertina.
Singers strike a chord with Festival
Choir with Sandra Kerr, Big Sings with the fairly spooky Stephen
Taberner, West
Gallery Country Carols, Shapenote, Harmony, Political Songs and song workshops
and presentations led by Len Graham, Fay
Hield, Peta
Webb, Ken
Hall and Jerry
O'Reilly.
All
workshops are covered by All in One and Season Tickets! Or, admission is ?8 on
the door for individual workshops. Alternatively, you can buy a book of 6
workshop passes for ?38 - a saving of ?10!
Young at heart?
Families coming to Sidmouth FolkWeek
are in for a treat too. Blackmore Gardens is at the heart of the fun, buzzing
from 9.30am ?til 9.30pm with activities for tinies to teenies - from the Little
Folk Tent for 0-6s to the evening youth club SLOAFS.
Song and instrumental workshops run
throughout the week, alongside a brand new Small Voices singing workshop
especially for 5-7 year olds run by Mim
and morning dance
workshops and afternoon Beat'N'Feet dancing with Appakella or Come & Ceilidh sessions with Alex
Cumming offering
the chance to practise dance moves for the family friendly ceilidhs, which
return to their early evening slot in the Blackmore Gardens Marquee.
For crafty hearts and minds,
inspiring workshops run every morning for over 6s. Sessions for older children
include the chance to make fantastic creations for a special Olympian themed
torchlight procession including a very special secret
structure.
Family activities include Stiltskin's circus skills and Gacko's ukulele for beginners.
Youth activists
Shooting Roots offer
another thrilling tour of funky, folky frivolity for 12-18 year olds with a
worrying reality-show F-Factor theme! Musicians, singers and dancers are pitted
against each other with the promise of a grand prize - be it for crooning or
cutting a caper!
Prepare for the nail-biting Shooting
Roots finale -
incorporating an eclectic brew of music, dance, storytelling, theatre, craft -
by joining the boot camp workshops and soak up knowledge from the likes
of Gaorsach Rapper and Step, the Stream
of Sound
phenomenon and storyteller Rachel Rose Reid. A glorious team of tutors run new
workshops in ?Song for Dance' and ?Learning By Ear' as well as old favourites
including Morris, Band, Theatre and Craft.
Around the rest of the festival, you can expect: major
concerts, roots dances, ceilidhs, Shooting Roots workshops, displays, morris
dancers, sessions and a diverse and entertaining programme jam-packed with
feel-good atmosphere.
BOOKING
2011 Ticket Prices held for 2012! No Booking Fee!
To help you plan your own festival,
further information about All-In-One, Week, Weekend, Day, Sidmouth Resident
Ticket Concession tickets, group discounts and accommodation options (including
Festival Camping) is available at www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
Book by ?phone 01395 577952
Taster Programmes can be downloaded
from the web site or obtained by emailing abm_sidmouth_at_btinternet_dot_com
with name, address and email address.
##ends##
Notes to editors
Media queries to: Alan Bearman Music on 020 7263 0425 or info.abm_at_btinternet_dot_com
Full line-up details are available
at www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk
Photos available on request
The final programme - with all
featured guests at each event - will be available in the comprehensive Festival
Programme published in July.
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