9th Spring Festival
26th 27th 28th May 2006 Program

Friday Barn Stage
20:00 Blue Julep
Chris Hall, a leading authority on the Cajun & Zydeco music of the Louisiana Bayous, founded swamp music. Now working with people like Mike Harding, Bill Wyman, Paul McCartney and Kate Bush. Here we find the maestro accompanied by Carla Simmons & Hazel Scott.
21:15 Dara
Traditional Irish Band playing music mainly from Connaught (Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon) Jigs, reels & songs with fiddle, flute, accordion, guitar, bodhran & vocals. With Guest Vocalist Jayne Marsden of “Marsden Blant and Squire”.
22:45 Kilnaboy
Hatched in the cold dank Feb of 2004. Comprising of drunken boys on heat with a mission to spread their own peculiar brand of dirty, filthy folkery pokery to the world. Bringing traditional folk into line with the aid of punk and roots undertones. The eclectic brand of upbeat magic and madness will have you jumping from table to table and flailing the dance floor wildly.
24:00 Late Night Film – Metropolis
There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees...

Friday Real Ale Bar
9.00 Woolley and Archer
At their rollicking best with pinned back R'n'B folk songs. The sort of blokes who puts some heart back into naval gazing, and creates something special along the way.
Saturday morning In the Barn
10.30 The Urban Gypsies Tribal Belly Dance group – workshop
Wild, energetic, celebratory and fun. The Urban Gypsies are a tribe of women who have worked hard to perfect this art. Fun, participative and like a village group getting together. Using funky World Music that has a fabulous "foot tapping" quality. Simple but powerful formations and involving the audience at all levels.
Saturday Afternoon Courtyard
Poetry and Didgeridoo Walk about
Saturday Barn Stage
12:45 Sarah Matthews and Gill Redmond
Dynamic French and European music
13:45 Steam Boy ~ Afternoon Film (PG)
From the leader in animé Katsuhiro Otomo (Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis, Memories), comes his first feature- length directorial project since his breakthrough film (Akira). A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England; Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam, who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation, the Steam Ball. Young Ray Steam must use the Steam Ball to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction.
15:30 Sarah Mathews and Jill Redmond
16:30 Inta Africa – Drum Workshop
Break
20:00 Gareth Davies-Jones
To get the full effect of what Gareth has created you will want to focus on the lyrics, internalize them. Too often Christian social justice is overlooked,
21:15 Gareth Davies-Jones
22:00 Film
24:00 Dr Matt DJ ~ Film Score


Saturday Out door Stage
12:25 Spokane
Delta Blues Fusion, covering the likes of Robert Johnson, Ry Cooder, and Captain Beefheart
13:40 James Raynard
"Raynard's engaging simplicity is underpinned by a glowing passion for the history and wordplay of grand old songs."
14:55 Nick Harper
"A force of nature… the sheer weight of ideas in his music makes him irresistible and unstoppable... Harper the performer is a fearsome weapon. Phenomenal? You bet your life."
16:30 Seize the Day
"…multi-talented band with their own unique way of getting their message across with their lively, upbeat, hypnotic music. They took the folk world by storm, leaving audiences in tears of sorrow and mirth with their own self-penned compositions"
Break
19:00 10 o’clock horses
Folk punk to ska, raucous rythms to reggae, put the Levellers in a blender with Selecter and add a dash of Massive Attack and this is what you'd get!
20:20 Lil Jim
Lil' Jim is no slouch, his singing is awesome, his accordion playing is stunning, and his stage show is bursting full of energy. The future of UK Zydeco is here today!
22:30 Hayseed Dixie
"From the fertile valley of Deer Lick Holler, deep in the heart of Appalachia, comes a sound that is old yet new. In an area completely isolated from outside cultural and musical influence, this band of acoustic musicians grew up playing the traditional music of their forefathers. Then, as fate would have it, one crisp fall afternoon, a stranger passed through the holler. Well, he almost made it through. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for appreciators of great music worldwide, the stranger crashed his car into a stately old oak tree at Devil's Elbow Curve. Sadly, the stranger expired, but his legacy lives on. For under the back seat of his car, the boys found some old black vinyl records as they went through his belongings looking for identification. All they had to listen to them on was an old Edison Victrola that only played at 78 R.P.M., but the boys all agreed it was some mighty fine country music. So, in memory of the stranger who had perished the boys set about learning these songs . .

"Sunday morning
10.30 The Urban Gypsies Tribal Belly Dance group - workshop
Sunday in the courtyard
Poetry and Didgeridoo Walk about
The Urban Gypsies Tribal Belly Dance group
Sunday Barn Stage
12:45 Sarah Mathews and Doug Eunson
Highly imaginative arrangements, lovely harmonies and superb dance music to boot!"
13:45 Film
15:30 Sarah Mathews and Doug Eunson
16:30 Inta Africa
Break
20:00 Nuala and the Retrobates
a mix of rootsy folk, jazz, funk and reggae, the band features a rhythm section from the infamous reggae outfit DibDub Sound System
21:15 Nuala and the Retrobates
22:00 Film
24.00 Dr Matt DJ film score
Sunday Outdoor stage
12:25 Scott Mathews
‘He’s fantastic…an absolute genius’..…Janice Long …‘Exceptionally good…an absolute blinder!‘ A lot like Jeff Buckley…very Nick Drake’……..Mark Radcliffe
13:40 Dara
14:55 Megson
Inspired acoustic nu-folk with infectious up-beat songs to slow acoustic beauties.
16:15 Baraka
a unique combination of dance and party music featuring West African Highlife, South African Township and Calypso, Soca and Reggae from the Caribbean. The line up features musicians from Ghana, Zambia, Dominica and Ireland, providing an exciting mix of dance rhythms, soaring melodies and funky grooves
Break
19:00 Kasai Masai
Kasaï Masaï bring us the traditional sound of the most remote equatorial African villages, with a modern twist. The Duo play ancestral music which has been passed on from generation to generation and is rooted in the healing power of percussion and chanting combined with the majestic sound of Congolese folk guitar.
20:30 Doreen Thobekile
Kwazulu roots diva of immaculate pedigree, ...when Doreen sings the whole world seems to stop and listen to a voice that could well have kicked off the Big Bang'
22:30 Golem system
Flying in from Spain the Uptempo, funky, eminently danceable, with beats, guitars, keyboard & horns, and the charismatic Argentinian Aleko on vocal, their sound and connection to the mighty Manu Chao, is in the same ballpark whilst retaining much of its own character.
All Weekend In The Orchard ...
Shiatsu ~ Head Massage ~Shiatsu ~ Hand Massage
Aromatherapy ~ Dusk Meditation ~ Tai Chi & Chi Kung ~ Meditation
Harmonic Temple Singing
Children’s Entertainment
On campsite near Play area
Friday
5-8pm Circus workshop and general play session
Saturday
10.30am-12.30pm Circus Workshop
1-3pm Poi making and workshop session
3.30pm-6.30pm Making instruments and costumes with face painting. Children's parade.
7-8.30pm Face Painting and Balloon Modelling (For adults and children!)
Sunday
11am-1pm Sing song and parachute games
2pm-4pm Making Juggling balls and workshop

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