Feature in the Shropshire Star today - click on image for PDF version
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Andy Cutting & Patsy Reid
Andy Cutting and Patsy Reid working on the Cecil Sharp Projectphoto by Carey Gough
Monday, March 21, 2011
Cecil Sharp Project Press Day
We had an open house on the Cecil Sharp Project this afternoon, with the press invited to spend some time in and around the house interviewing artists.
The articles for the project will be appearing online and in-print in the coming weeks, here's a few shots from the day...
The articles for the project will be appearing online and in-print in the coming weeks, here's a few shots from the day...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Songlines Top 10 Festival Award
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Site developments for 2011
This year there are a handful of changes to the marquees on site
Marquee 2 will be replaced by a new larger Clearspan marquee with increased capacity, providing a much more comfortable space with better sight lines.
Sabrina will be replaced with a scaled down version of our marquee two, blue and yellow tent; again this will be made more comfortable providing more space for workshops and acoustic performances.
Dance Tent will be a new larger, better quality tent with extra seating. There will also be a new dance floor covering the whole floor space at 1000sq mtrs (25m x 40m).
Children’s Marquee will be almost twice the size of last year’s tent, again to give more capacity and make sure kids have even more fun.
The whole idea behind the marquees with extra capacity is to reduce the need for “House Full” signs going up.
Screens the two large screens remain in the main marquee, but over the past couple of years we've noticed many people love to sit on the grass outside the marquee and listen. We're going to install a huge screen here so you can still sit outside the marquee and not miss a thing (you can see the screen in action here)
Marquee 2 will be replaced by a new larger Clearspan marquee with increased capacity, providing a much more comfortable space with better sight lines.
Sabrina will be replaced with a scaled down version of our marquee two, blue and yellow tent; again this will be made more comfortable providing more space for workshops and acoustic performances.
Dance Tent will be a new larger, better quality tent with extra seating. There will also be a new dance floor covering the whole floor space at 1000sq mtrs (25m x 40m).
Children’s Marquee will be almost twice the size of last year’s tent, again to give more capacity and make sure kids have even more fun.
The whole idea behind the marquees with extra capacity is to reduce the need for “House Full” signs going up.
Screens the two large screens remain in the main marquee, but over the past couple of years we've noticed many people love to sit on the grass outside the marquee and listen. We're going to install a huge screen here so you can still sit outside the marquee and not miss a thing (you can see the screen in action here)
Friday, February 11, 2011
T-Shirt Competition
T-Shirt Competition
win a family ticket to the festival!
The warts and all feedback form at the end of last years' festival has been important in shaping the 2011 event. One of the common themes related to the shirts - you loved the quality, but not the designs...so here we are asking for your help!
The Prize
- A family ticket (2 adults, 2 youths) with camping to the 2011 festival
- An invitation to the festival reception, Sat 27th August
- Full acknowledgement in the programme
- Free t-shirts that feature your design
- Warm fuzzy feeling seeing hundreds of people wearing your shirt
Artistic Brief
We're very open-minded about the design, so will leave this to your imagination.
If you're looking for pointers, then a design that is inspired by, or reflects one or more of : folk music, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, the tradition, performance, Shrewsbury etc. would be good places to start.
The image would be placed on the front of a t-shirt (and can be any size from a small logo to something that covers the whole of the shirt).
How to enter
Entries can be submitted electronically as .jpg, .pdf or .ai formats (minimum 300dpi please) to Neil Pearson
Please contact Neil if you'd like to submit an entry on disc or through the post.
Closing date Closing date is 31 March 2011.
Any questions either contact me direct or leave a post on the blog.
win a family ticket to the festival!
The warts and all feedback form at the end of last years' festival has been important in shaping the 2011 event. One of the common themes related to the shirts - you loved the quality, but not the designs...so here we are asking for your help!
The Prize
- A family ticket (2 adults, 2 youths) with camping to the 2011 festival
- An invitation to the festival reception, Sat 27th August
- Full acknowledgement in the programme
- Free t-shirts that feature your design
- Warm fuzzy feeling seeing hundreds of people wearing your shirt
Artistic Brief
We're very open-minded about the design, so will leave this to your imagination.
If you're looking for pointers, then a design that is inspired by, or reflects one or more of : folk music, Shrewsbury Folk Festival, the tradition, performance, Shrewsbury etc. would be good places to start.
The image would be placed on the front of a t-shirt (and can be any size from a small logo to something that covers the whole of the shirt).
How to enter
Entries can be submitted electronically as .jpg, .pdf or .ai formats (minimum 300dpi please) to Neil Pearson
Please contact Neil if you'd like to submit an entry on disc or through the post.
Closing date Closing date is 31 March 2011.
Any questions either contact me direct or leave a post on the blog.
Monday, February 07, 2011
C# article
In January we were approached to write a feature about the Cecil Sharp Project for the English Dance and Song Magazine - writing about something we're organising, but that hasn't yet happened was a tricky brief, but actually turned out to be a useful exercise as it made us reflect on previous work and look forward to the upcoming project.....here's the article in full (it will be published in the March issue of the EDS magazine
In mid-March 2011 eight traditional and contemporary folk artists gather together in a 16th Century farmhouse in Shropshire, where they’ll be given seven days in rural isolation to create new works that have a resonance and relevance to the life and work of Cecil Sharp.
The project is a joint commission between Shrewsbury Folk Festival and EFDSS, and immediately following the residential part of the project the artists will premiere the new works at Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury, and then directly on to London where they will perform the concert in two shows at Cecil Sharp House.
The musicians are drawn from the widest possible definition of folk, and the eight artists cover traditional English players, British contemporary folk artists through to a Canadian folk/rock band frontman, and an American singer/songwriter with a degree in American folklore. Bringing the talents of Steve Knightley, Jim Moray, Kathryn Roberts, Andy Cutting, Patsy Reid, Jackie Oates, Leonard Podolak and Caroline Herring together sounds like a great idea, but with such an eclectic line-up and a very broad artistic brief, it’s hard to even begin to imagine what the results may be.
Perhaps a good yardstick would be the Shrewsbury Folk Festival’s Darwin Song Project, a similar multi-artist project put together to celebrate the bi-centennial of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury’s most famous son. Here artists, including Chris Wood, Karine Polwart, Rachael McShane and Jez Lowe were tasked with writing new songs related to the life and legacy of Darwin. The resulting songs were uniformly excellent, and many have found their way onto the individual artists’ solo albums and into their live sets; the resulting Darwin Song Project album has been well received all over the world.
Where Darwin was an obvious target with the high profile of the celebrations, and a well documented world of differing opinions and viewpoints, the decision to task artists with creating new work relating to Sharp appears, on the surface at least, to be a trickier brief.
While all the artists for the Cecil Sharp Project had some background knowledge of Sharp and his efforts to chronicle dance and song, there is obviously going to be plenty of research and preparatory work from everyone before they throw themselves of the intensity of a residential project with a demanding time restriction.
This is where the joint commission aspect of the project really comes into play – although the project is being managed and organised by Shrewsbury Folk Festival, it’s very much a partnership with EFDSS. Soon after the eight artists were selected, EFDSS supplied them with literature and resource material, and the artists have had exclusive and early access to Sharp’s transcribed American diaries which are now available on the EFDSS website. So where the festival is providing much of logistical and management aspect of the project, the breadth and quality of the support, and material available to the artists from EFDSS is what adds a rich dimension to the whole concept.
With the full array of resources available from EFDSS, and the information that is already in the public domain, the source material covers a daunting amount of ground, and it’s obvious this is a very open ended project, open to many different interpretations. This fact is reinforced by the direction that has been given to the artists by the commissioning team; part of the contracted artistic brief includes
“….the resulting songs and tunes are to have some relevance to Cecil Sharp; they may draw from any aspect of his life, work, legacy and impact, or may be interpretations of collected songs and tunes…”
“…any approach the artists feel is appropriate – we’re happy for the house to find its own way…”
By offering up such an unrestricted canvas, the material that comes out of the project are going to be difficult to predict and certainly exciting.
This unpredictability is all part of the design of the project; the partnership of EFDSS with Shrewsbury is eye-catching, as while Shrewsbury books many British Folk artists, it has what could be described as a progressive booking policy; it is a new venture for EFDSS and forms part of their fledgling but expanding artists’ development programme.
This progressive attitude is certainly reflected in the artists chosen for the project. Given a free rein on the final eight, the project directors were well aware that they were treading on ‘hallowed ground’ producing work on Sharp, and that they would most likely come under heavy scrutiny from the folk community for their selections.
With that in mind they went ahead and booked a Canadian banjo player, and a Georgia based US singer/songwriter (who are both fairly infrequent visitors to the UK), and added them to a range of UK based artists who include a Scottish fiddle player, and the front man of the biggest folk ‘stadium’ band around.
The final eight could hardly be described as a conservative selection, but in the true spirit of Sharp, and the constant state of flux traditional music forever finds itself in, the convergence of these artists and their different experiences will result in songs and tunes that will connect with many people on many different levels.
The best guess is that at end of project the eight artists will have created new songs and tunes, perhaps uncovered something previously hidden away in the diaries, or will have re-worked something already chronicled; but the truth is that nine weeks away from the first day of the residential, nobody knows for sure until the concerts in Shrewsbury and London at the end of March.
In mid-March 2011 eight traditional and contemporary folk artists gather together in a 16th Century farmhouse in Shropshire, where they’ll be given seven days in rural isolation to create new works that have a resonance and relevance to the life and work of Cecil Sharp.
The project is a joint commission between Shrewsbury Folk Festival and EFDSS, and immediately following the residential part of the project the artists will premiere the new works at Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury, and then directly on to London where they will perform the concert in two shows at Cecil Sharp House.
The musicians are drawn from the widest possible definition of folk, and the eight artists cover traditional English players, British contemporary folk artists through to a Canadian folk/rock band frontman, and an American singer/songwriter with a degree in American folklore. Bringing the talents of Steve Knightley, Jim Moray, Kathryn Roberts, Andy Cutting, Patsy Reid, Jackie Oates, Leonard Podolak and Caroline Herring together sounds like a great idea, but with such an eclectic line-up and a very broad artistic brief, it’s hard to even begin to imagine what the results may be.
Perhaps a good yardstick would be the Shrewsbury Folk Festival’s Darwin Song Project, a similar multi-artist project put together to celebrate the bi-centennial of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury’s most famous son. Here artists, including Chris Wood, Karine Polwart, Rachael McShane and Jez Lowe were tasked with writing new songs related to the life and legacy of Darwin. The resulting songs were uniformly excellent, and many have found their way onto the individual artists’ solo albums and into their live sets; the resulting Darwin Song Project album has been well received all over the world.
Where Darwin was an obvious target with the high profile of the celebrations, and a well documented world of differing opinions and viewpoints, the decision to task artists with creating new work relating to Sharp appears, on the surface at least, to be a trickier brief.
While all the artists for the Cecil Sharp Project had some background knowledge of Sharp and his efforts to chronicle dance and song, there is obviously going to be plenty of research and preparatory work from everyone before they throw themselves of the intensity of a residential project with a demanding time restriction.
This is where the joint commission aspect of the project really comes into play – although the project is being managed and organised by Shrewsbury Folk Festival, it’s very much a partnership with EFDSS. Soon after the eight artists were selected, EFDSS supplied them with literature and resource material, and the artists have had exclusive and early access to Sharp’s transcribed American diaries which are now available on the EFDSS website. So where the festival is providing much of logistical and management aspect of the project, the breadth and quality of the support, and material available to the artists from EFDSS is what adds a rich dimension to the whole concept.
With the full array of resources available from EFDSS, and the information that is already in the public domain, the source material covers a daunting amount of ground, and it’s obvious this is a very open ended project, open to many different interpretations. This fact is reinforced by the direction that has been given to the artists by the commissioning team; part of the contracted artistic brief includes
“….the resulting songs and tunes are to have some relevance to Cecil Sharp; they may draw from any aspect of his life, work, legacy and impact, or may be interpretations of collected songs and tunes…”
“…any approach the artists feel is appropriate – we’re happy for the house to find its own way…”
By offering up such an unrestricted canvas, the material that comes out of the project are going to be difficult to predict and certainly exciting.
This unpredictability is all part of the design of the project; the partnership of EFDSS with Shrewsbury is eye-catching, as while Shrewsbury books many British Folk artists, it has what could be described as a progressive booking policy; it is a new venture for EFDSS and forms part of their fledgling but expanding artists’ development programme.
This progressive attitude is certainly reflected in the artists chosen for the project. Given a free rein on the final eight, the project directors were well aware that they were treading on ‘hallowed ground’ producing work on Sharp, and that they would most likely come under heavy scrutiny from the folk community for their selections.
With that in mind they went ahead and booked a Canadian banjo player, and a Georgia based US singer/songwriter (who are both fairly infrequent visitors to the UK), and added them to a range of UK based artists who include a Scottish fiddle player, and the front man of the biggest folk ‘stadium’ band around.
The final eight could hardly be described as a conservative selection, but in the true spirit of Sharp, and the constant state of flux traditional music forever finds itself in, the convergence of these artists and their different experiences will result in songs and tunes that will connect with many people on many different levels.
The best guess is that at end of project the eight artists will have created new songs and tunes, perhaps uncovered something previously hidden away in the diaries, or will have re-worked something already chronicled; but the truth is that nine weeks away from the first day of the residential, nobody knows for sure until the concerts in Shrewsbury and London at the end of March.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Cecil Sharp Poster
We've just signed off the Cecil Sharp poster - these A3 posters are printed on beautiful uncoated paper and will be used for promotion - they'll also be available for those who attend the shows in March.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
2011 SFF ad
The ads for this years festival are now complete.
There are various adverts for different publications - here's the ad for a 'standard' size magazine.
There are various adverts for different publications - here's the ad for a 'standard' size magazine.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
HD videos now available
We've just started uploading full HD videos to our Youtube site.
If you have a fast enough connection then select 1080p from the pop-up menu that appears in the bottom right hand corner of the video after you've started playing it.
We'll be uploading more over the coming weeks.
If you have a fast enough connection then select 1080p from the pop-up menu that appears in the bottom right hand corner of the video after you've started playing it.
We'll be uploading more over the coming weeks.
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Cecil Sharp Feature in Shropshire Star
Happy New Year!
We're gearing up for an important year at Shrewsbury Folk Festival....
We're gearing up for an important year at Shrewsbury Folk Festival....
- our Shrewsbury Hive Concerts continue all the way through the year (and into 2012)
- our joint commission with EFDSS, the Cecil Sharp Project takes place in March
- and we're working hard to make the festival in August our best ever!
Between Christmas and New Year, the Shropshire Star ran a large feature on the Cecil Sharp Project, it's copied below.
- and we're working hard to make the festival in August our best ever!
Between Christmas and New Year, the Shropshire Star ran a large feature on the Cecil Sharp Project, it's copied below.
click the image for full size PDF version
(with thanks to the Shropshire Star)
(with thanks to the Shropshire Star)
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Line-up for 2011
Confirmed line-up includes
CONCERTS
The Imagined Village
Cara Dillon
The Cecil Sharp Project
Oysterband (and special guests)
Bellowhead (a late night show this year)
Show of Hands
Kepa Junkera Band
17 Hippies
Turtle Duhks
Home Service
Martin Simpson Band
Demon Barber Roadshow
Spiers & Boden (and a S&B ceilidh)
Gerry O’Connor Trio Chris Wood & Andy Cutting (+ Chris solo)
Breabach
John Tams & Barry Coope
The Sweetback Sisters
Martyn Joseph
Reg Meuross
Jim Moray
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Caroline Herring
Sam Carter
Brooks Williams
Walsh & Pound
Calan
Uiscedwr
Lucy Ward
Pilgrims Way
Johnny Dickinson
The Wilsons
BabaJack
The Younguns
Kimber’s MenLady Maisery
Bad Anna
Flaxenby
BarlowCree
George Papavgeris & Los Marbles (+ solo)
DANCE BANDS
Hekety
PolkaWorks
Spiers and Boden
Glorystrokes
Grand Union
Chalktown
MORRIS
Hammersmith Morris
Redbornstoke Morris
Shropshire Bedlams
Martha Rhoden’s Tuppeny DishNewcastle Kingsmen
Outside Capering CrewSaving.....
CONCERTS
The Imagined Village
Cara Dillon
The Cecil Sharp Project
Oysterband (and special guests)
Bellowhead (a late night show this year)
Show of Hands
Kepa Junkera Band
17 Hippies
Turtle Duhks
Home Service
Martin Simpson Band
Demon Barber Roadshow
Spiers & Boden (and a S&B ceilidh)
Gerry O’Connor Trio Chris Wood & Andy Cutting (+ Chris solo)
Breabach
John Tams & Barry Coope
The Sweetback Sisters
Martyn Joseph
Reg Meuross
Jim Moray
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Caroline Herring
Sam Carter
Brooks Williams
Walsh & Pound
Calan
Uiscedwr
Lucy Ward
Pilgrims Way
Johnny Dickinson
The Wilsons
BabaJack
The Younguns
Kimber’s MenLady Maisery
Bad Anna
Flaxenby
BarlowCree
George Papavgeris & Los Marbles (+ solo)
DANCE BANDS
Hekety
PolkaWorks
Spiers and Boden
Glorystrokes
Grand Union
Chalktown
MORRIS
Hammersmith Morris
Redbornstoke Morris
Shropshire Bedlams
Martha Rhoden’s Tuppeny DishNewcastle Kingsmen
Outside Capering CrewSaving.....
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Martin Simpson Band at SFF 2011
We’re pleased to be able to add The Martin Simpson Band to the line-up for 2011.
Multi BBC Folk Award winner, Martin is one of the finest acoustic finger-style and slide guitar players anywhere in the world.
The band members are Andy Cutting, BJ Cole, Andy Seward and Keith Angel, and bringing all these talents together will make this a memorable show for Shrewsbury.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Reg Meuross confirmed for SFF 2011
One of Britain’s finest singer songwriters with a high tenor voice described as “the best this side of the Atlantic”.Reg has had a long illustrious career in the music industry beginning as one of the Panic Brothers with Richard Morton and moving on when Reg formed a band called the Flamingos, a veritable super group with ex Graham Parker guitarist Martin Belmont, Bob Loveday from The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Alison Jones of The Barely Works.
Reg will be supported at Shrewsbury Folk Festival by young cellist Bethany Porter, who has worked with Peter Gabriel, Kula Shaker, Bellowhead, Jim Moray, Jackie Oates, Bath Symphony Orchestra and many more.
Expect something very special.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Gerry “Banjo” O’Connor to perform at Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2011
Gerry O'Connor may be the single best four string banjoist in the history of Irish Music.
His phenomenal technique and effortless virtuosity reminds audiences of American five string banjo players like Bela Fleck and Alison Brown.
If ever a musician truly 'owned' the instrument he plays Gerry O'Connor 'owns' the four - string banjo.
A member of Four Men and a Dog, he will be performing with his fantastic trio at Shrewsbury in August.
His phenomenal technique and effortless virtuosity reminds audiences of American five string banjo players like Bela Fleck and Alison Brown.
If ever a musician truly 'owned' the instrument he plays Gerry O'Connor 'owns' the four - string banjo.
A member of Four Men and a Dog, he will be performing with his fantastic trio at Shrewsbury in August.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
The Turtle Duhks & Footworks
We’re proud to announce a real exclusive for Shrewsbury in 2011.You may remember that Leonard Podolak came over from Canada with the Duhks a couple of years ago, and was very well received by all.
Lenny is still playing with the Duhks, but is bringing over his Turtle Duhks for SFF 2011.
As a special treat for Shrewsbury, he is bringing a team of dancers from the Canada called Footworks.
The music is rooted firmly in the tradition of Appalachia, and is performed with the groove and drive of rock'n'roll, Celtic music, jazz and funk. But expect something extra special when the dancers add their percussive beat to the performance.
We’ll have Leonard over here in March as part of our Cecil Sharp Project, and the project will also have a big performance at the festival in August.
Friday, December 03, 2010
more artists added for 2011
more new artists booked for 2011 include...
The Imagined Village
The Sweetback Sisters
Lucy Ward
Calan
Johnny Dickinson
Uiscedwr
Sam Carter
Badanna
..more to follow.
The Imagined Village
The Sweetback Sisters
Lucy Ward
Calan
Johnny Dickinson
Uiscedwr
Sam Carter
Badanna
..more to follow.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Tickets on sale NOW!
Tickets for the 2011 festival are on sale now.
As usual there is a mixture of weekend and day tickets available, (with weekend tickets at the earlybird rate until 31 March 2011).
Full details on prices etc here
We're still finalising the line-up, but some of the artists already confirmed are
Bellowhead (a late night show this year)
Show of Hands
Oysterband (and special guests)
Cara Dillon
Kepa Junkera Band
Chris Wood & Andy Cutting (AND Chris solo)
Martyn Joseph
The Cecil Sharp Project
Breabach
Demon Barber Roadshow
Jim Moray
17 Hippies
Spiers & Boden (AND a Spiers & Boden ceilidh)
Caroline Herring
Polkaworks
Hekety
Mr Gubbins Bicycle
..we'll announce more as we confirm them.
As usual there is a mixture of weekend and day tickets available, (with weekend tickets at the earlybird rate until 31 March 2011).
Full details on prices etc here
We're still finalising the line-up, but some of the artists already confirmed are
Bellowhead (a late night show this year)
Show of Hands
Oysterband (and special guests)
Cara Dillon
Kepa Junkera Band
Chris Wood & Andy Cutting (AND Chris solo)
Martyn Joseph
The Cecil Sharp Project
Breabach
Demon Barber Roadshow
Jim Moray
17 Hippies
Spiers & Boden (AND a Spiers & Boden ceilidh)
Caroline Herring
Polkaworks
Hekety
Mr Gubbins Bicycle
..we'll announce more as we confirm them.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Hope House Donations
As a festival we're proud that we support Hope House Hospice with a donation from every adult ticket sale, but we're equally proud that you also make donations over the weekend....here's a copy of a press release we're sending out today that tells the full story.
Hope House Hospice is celebrating an early Christmas present from Shropshire’s biggest music festival which has helped to raise nearly £5,400 for the charity at this year's event.
Organisers of the Shrewsbury Folk Festival, held at the West Mid Showground over August Bank Holiday weekend, have made their annual donation of £1 for every adult ticket sold to the Morda hospice and handed over £3,600 recently.
Coupled with £1796 raised on the weekend from a bucket collection outside the main music marquees, donations raised from a stall at the festival and donations by festival goers who wanted electrical equipment charging, a total of £5,396 was raised for Hope House.
It is the third year that the festival has supported Hope House and so far £14,889 has been donated to support the hospice's music therapy service.
Festival Director Alan Surtees said the organising committee had been delighted with the amount raised.
He said: 'Yet again, the festival goers showed their generosity with their continuing support of the Hope House collection and by visiting its stall on the showground.
'Every year, we have a fantastic four days focused on music and that's why I think we continue to raise a great amount of money for Hope House. People recognise the enjoyment music brings to their life during the festival and want the children who use Hope House to be able to share in that.
'We have pledged to continue supporting Hope House and its music therapy service and hope we'll be able to raise even more money in 2011!'
Hope House Fundraising Manager Vanessa Thomas said: 'Music is a huge part of life at Hope House and benefits the children in many forms, from sessions with our music therapist, to singing along to favourite tunes; from toddlers banging drums to teenagers laying down tracks. Music brings pleasure to everyone and is a lovely way for children to make themselves heard.
'We're really pleased to be part of the festival and want to thank everyone who has supported us with a donation.'
Hope House Hospice is celebrating an early Christmas present from Shropshire’s biggest music festival which has helped to raise nearly £5,400 for the charity at this year's event.
Organisers of the Shrewsbury Folk Festival, held at the West Mid Showground over August Bank Holiday weekend, have made their annual donation of £1 for every adult ticket sold to the Morda hospice and handed over £3,600 recently.
Coupled with £1796 raised on the weekend from a bucket collection outside the main music marquees, donations raised from a stall at the festival and donations by festival goers who wanted electrical equipment charging, a total of £5,396 was raised for Hope House.
It is the third year that the festival has supported Hope House and so far £14,889 has been donated to support the hospice's music therapy service.
Festival Director Alan Surtees said the organising committee had been delighted with the amount raised.
He said: 'Yet again, the festival goers showed their generosity with their continuing support of the Hope House collection and by visiting its stall on the showground.
'Every year, we have a fantastic four days focused on music and that's why I think we continue to raise a great amount of money for Hope House. People recognise the enjoyment music brings to their life during the festival and want the children who use Hope House to be able to share in that.
'We have pledged to continue supporting Hope House and its music therapy service and hope we'll be able to raise even more money in 2011!'
Hope House Fundraising Manager Vanessa Thomas said: 'Music is a huge part of life at Hope House and benefits the children in many forms, from sessions with our music therapist, to singing along to favourite tunes; from toddlers banging drums to teenagers laying down tracks. Music brings pleasure to everyone and is a lovely way for children to make themselves heard.
'We're really pleased to be part of the festival and want to thank everyone who has supported us with a donation.'
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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