FOLK REVOLUTION
A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE DIFFERENCE!
How can the Rhondda show the world the difference
between folk music and show biz? It's easy !
For thousands of years musicians cheered up their
friends, communities (& themselves) by playing
music. They didn't get paid, or even consider
"a career in music", until relatively recently.
Today, the Rhondda is FULL of groups of musicians
happy to meet as friends & play beautiful music...
Come to the Rhondda and find the true spirit of
"folk" music... it's a real revolution!
and for those reared on the '50s US hegemony
of Pete Seeger, et al, it's a real revelation !
The Comhaltas All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Cavan
kicked off with traditional Irish music, streamed free:
www.LiveTrad.com.
Get in touch through instant messaging
by using the LiveTrad.com message board.
Requests and messages are read out on air.
It's loads of fun, as well as terrific music!
www.LiveTrad.com.
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - God and Man
(spoken) In the beginning, there was just God,
So God made man in his own image: a little image that is.
Man asked God, "My God, how great art thou?"
And to show man his great power, they played a game.
Sonny, I'll play the part of the man, and you'll play the part of God
God and man played hide-and-go-seek.
God told man, "Now man, don’t you peek."
Man counted to ten, and then looked around,
But God was nowhere, nowhere to be found.
Man looked on the mountain.
He looked across the sea.
He looked in the stars, in the skies, in the trees.
He looked in the wind, in the sun, on the ground,
But God was nowhere, nowhere to be found.
So man made an image and he gave it a name,
But this man-made god brought nothing but pain.
Man started shouting "God! Where can you be?"
"I’m right here man, inside of thee."
Oh, man was so shocked, he was really surprised.
'Cuz he looked everywhere, but right there inside.
Now when man found God, man found love,
And man found out what we all are made of.
God is in you and God is in me.
To love all of God is to love humanity.
God is in you and God is in me.
To love all of God is to love humanity."
FOLKWALES
Welcome to FOLKWALES, a new internet magazine
which has gone on-line now. December 2011.
Edited by journalist, researcher and musician
Mick Tems, FOLKWALES magazine promises a new
concept in media publishing; news, views,
reviews, features, articles and comment,
the all-Wales Listings and Events, focussing
on Wales and the World.
FOLKWALES is at
www.folkwales.org.uk
- look forward to seeing you there!
Beyond the Border
Wales International Storytelling Festival
June 29th - July 1st
St Donats Castle, Vale of Glamorgan
www.beyondtheborder.com
'A feast of stories and music
at a fairytale castle by the sea'
Weekend Festival with Camping included in ticket
price (full price £100 adult weekend). Day and
Evening or Day til Dark Tickets also available
(from £25 a session).
www.beyondtheborder.com/festival/tickets
or call 01446 799 100
For What's On Wales e-list members - use
discount code Festlink at the Box Office
before May 31st to get £15 off adult weekend
or £30 off family weekend tickets.
World Music @ Beyond the Border
We're ranging far and wide with our World Music
programme this year. Welsh favourites Fernhill
dip into celtic roots on Saturday, and Julie
Murphy plays solo too. Balkan and Klezmer sounds
are represented by She'Koyokh who know how to
get audiences jumping and are nominated for
Songlines Best Group Award for 2012. Then we've
got subtle stylings from Bristol based
Glowglobes, ballads with Nick Hennessey, and
thanks to the Kazakhstan government and Air
Astana, legendary Zyraus (Epic Singer) Almas
Almatov and accompanying artists. We're dipping
into Persian sounds with singer Marjan Vahdat
(from The Vahdat Ensemble, of Lullabies from
the Axis of Evil Fame) and finally, outstanding
world fusion outfit Transglobal Underground
transcend genres and close the festival with
a storming dance party.
Literature @ Beyond the Border
We've two major author spotlights this year.
Erica Wagner (The Times) talks to New Mabinogion
writers Niall Griffiths and Russell Celyn Jones
and author Sally Vickers about using myths in a
contemporary context, meanwhile Dolman Award
winning travel writer Nick Jubber talks about
his journeys in Iran and Persia in search of
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Then there are the
storytelling performances of ancient literature
- including Jamie Crawford's King Arthur and
Xanthe Gresham's Stories from the Shahnameh as
well as our commissioned pieces, Esyllt Harker's
Tair: Daughters of Earth and Time which works
with Welsh legend, and The Company of
Storyteller's (Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton, Sally
Pomme Clayton) revival of their seminal
treatment of material from Grimm's Fairy Tales
Three Snake Leaves.
Storytelling @ Beyond the Border
There are so many storytellers booked for 2012
it's impossible to give you a flavour of
everything - but highlights include Pam Faro
(USA) telling the story of her Great Uncle
Olaus, who was one of few steerage survivors on
the Titanic; Tir Na-Nog award winner Daniel
Morden, offering a cliffhanger performance
where the audience decide the ending; Barkbelly
Author Cat Weatherill showcasing her work for
adults including performances of How to be
Glorious and Bluebeard, Suse Weisse and Jorg
Baesecke & Hedwig Rost representing German
storytelling traditions and Dan Yashinsky
bringing the best of his work all the way from Canada.
Festival Fun @ Beyond the Border
Storytelling circus with Compagnie Nicole et
Martin in their stunning white Big Top - the
Family Tent for the Festival; Street Theatre
with Ramshacklicious; Puppet shows; Lantern
Making; Shadow Puppet Making; Animated Films
of Lotte Reiniger, Wild Wood Crafts; Food from
Wales and the World, a Real Ale Bar and...
so much more.
More information
www.beyondtheborder.com/festival/line-up
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