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Steve Knightley
Jackie Oates
Andy Cutting
Caroline Herring
Jim Moray
Patsy Reid
Leonard Podolak
Kathryn Roberts
Thursday 24th March, 2011
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th March, 2011
Cecil Sharp House, London
August Bank Holiday Weekend, 2011
Shrewsbury Folk Festival, Shrewsbury
On March 18th 2011, the eight artists gather together in Shropshire for a 7 day residential, with an artistic brief to create new works that have a 'resonance and relevance' to Cecil Sharp, and in particular his Appalachian travels and song collecting between 1915-1918.
The residential will be immediately followed by 3 concerts (one in Shrewsbury, and two in London), these performances will be professionally recorded, and subsequently mixed and produced for a CD release in the summer.
The artists reconvene for a final performance at Shrewsbury Folk Festival in August 2011.
Read Cecil Sharp's
Appalachian
diaries on
EFDSS' website
Shrewsbury Folk Festival and EFDSS combine for a unique joint commission to bring 8 artists together for a residential project. Their brief is to create new works based around the life and legacy of English Folk Collector Cecil Sharp, paying special attention to his Appalachian Diaries.
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