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Tenterden
Folk Festival 2015
Thursday
1st to Sunday 4th October
The programme for this year's Tenterden Folk Festival is taking shape
and includes all the regular concerts, workshops, barn dances,etc.
that you have come to expect but also includes a collection of not to
be missed special shows including the following;
The good earth - A multi media show with Adrian O, Sue Watson
& Lizzie Stephens plus surprise guests
John Clare - A musical appreciation with Gordon Tyrrall (pictured
above)
Bob Copper: A Gentleman of High Renown - A multi media show with Vic
& Tina Smith
Not So Great Expectations in which Pete Castle explores the first
convicts in Botany Bay through traditional songs and the writings of
Charles Dickens
Travelling in hope with The Marsh Warblers
Carols from the Coalfields - songs and poems of Joseph Skipsey with
Chris Harrison from Morrigan
Adrian O is well known throughout England, Ireland and New Zealand as
a singer, storyteller and photographer and has been a regular
performer at Tenterden Folk Festival over the 23 years. For The good
earth show Adrian is joined by two other Tenterden regulars, Sue
Watson and Lizzie Stephens, so you can expect to be entertained for
90 minutes with a slide show, amusing stories, good music and songs.
There will also be two or three surprise guests joining the show.
John Clare was an English poet who lived from 1793 to 1864. He
achieved a certain amount of celebrity and respect at the time as it
was thought a novelty that a man from the rural working class
could be a poet at all, let alone a gifted one, (unlike
contemporaries Lord Byron,Coleridge or even John Keats ) and he was
known as "the peasant poet".He drew on the folk tradition
far more than most poets of his day, except for his great hero Robert
Burns. He was an original in many ways, not least in the collecting
and writing down of folk songs and music, long before the folk song
movement got under way with Lucy Broadwood and Cecil Sharp towards
the end of the nineteenth century. Coleridge wrote about "the
poor man's only music" in one of his poems (meaning church
bells) but Clare knew that poor people had plenty of music in their
lives and he was familiar with it, being a keen fiddle player. Gordon
Tyrrall decided to put together a musical appreciation of his work
setting his poems to music and sometimes arranging his fiddle tunes.
The late Sussex folk singer Bob Copper is celebrated 100 years after
his birth by his good friends Vic and Tina Smith who have a vast
collection of recordings, stories and songs gleaned from Bob or about
his life.
Tenterden Folk Festival 2015 kicks off on Thursday 1st
October with a special fundraising concert in The Town Hall which
features north east singer songwriter Jez Lowe. Jez was one of
the nominees for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2015 "folksinger of the
year" and his song "The Pitman Poets" was on the shortlist for best
original song. Also appearing in this concert, which is
supported by ?Around Kent Folk', are Kentish duo Hudson and Cutler
and Tenterden's own Mark Gibson.
Check out the full programme for times and ticket details for these
shows and the reast of the four day festival.of folk song, music,
dance, crafts and traditions. The free programme of events will
be available from September. Full Weekend Tickets covering all
events from Friday to Sunday, Thursday Evening tickets and other
single event tickets are already on sale direct from the
Festival. More details of tickets can be found on the website at
www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk
or you can buy tickets online at http://www.musicglue.com/tenterdenfolkfestival/tickets/.
Tickets are also be on sale at Tenterden Gateway and Ashford Gateway
Plus.
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