We’re just putting the finishing touches to our programming for our younger audience – here are some of the details in advance of the official announcement.
Shrewsbury Folk Festival Schools Project
We’re going to spend a week in late June in a local primary school with members of 422 and Sunshine Arts.
422 will be providing instrumental, vocal and dance workshops to all classes – the details will be finalised on Monday but there will be a band performance, ceilidhs and clog dancing, a chance for pupils to play various instruments, a final group ceilidh, and for some of the older group an introduction to rapper sword dancing.
Sunshine Arts will work with the older pupils on a Mum & Tuk’ play which fuses traditional Caribbean Tuk dance and English Mummers plays; there are also opportunities for Caribbean clapping games and percussion workshops. This is an exciting and significant project which we’ll formally announce next week, with full details of the school and a timetable of events.
Youth’s workshops
'The Big Shed' (see post below) will host some superb workshops for youths, amongst those that we’ve already scheduled are a Longsword Dance workshop with Sue Coe and Ryburn Longsword, a Samba percussion workshop with Sam Pirt, and vocal harmony workshops with Matt Price and Stream of Sound
Family Ceilidh
On Sunday afternoon the dance tent will host a family ceilidh with 422.
We’ll officially announce full details of these next week on both the website and blog – thoughts and ideas are very welcome, please feel free to leave a comment on the blog, we read them all!
2 comments:
It'd be good to have some instrument workshops in the big shed like shooting roots do. I know loads of people would have liked something like that last year
Hi Sarah - there will be loads of workshops. Some of them are still in the planning stage but you can rest assured that there will be a varied programme for 12-25 year olds. If you are an instrument player, or would like to be one; there will be a couple of 'Improvers' workshops - these are especially for people who would like to learn tunes and play in sessions. We are going to add a tunebook in the next few days so that you can practice before you come to the festival. Watch this space……
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