Friday 24+Saturday 25 June Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon
A festival with acoustic music at its heart International artists, workshops, films, world market and family events
On behalf of the Arts Team, welcome to Dartington and to this year’s HOME Festival. HOME is just one element of our arts programme, which also includes the internationally renowned Dartington International Summer School, a year-round performance programme and the independent cinema programme in The Barn. We have just introduced the new SPACE programme of artist residencies and we're delighted that State of Emergency have been spending time with us developing the dance production Desert Crossings, which you can see on Friday night at HOME prior to an international tour. The Arts are of course just one part of our work here in Dartington. The Arts Team's work sits alongside ground-breaking programmes in Sustainability (including Schumacher College) and Social Justice. You can find out more about our work – and how you can support it - by visiting the information stall on the festival site (located by the archway) or by going to our web site at www.dartington.org Finally, please do find time to enjoy the gardens and surroundings of Dartington Hall – surroundings which have been the inspiration for many artists and thinkers since the start of the Elmhirsts’ great experiment – and which we hope will be of equal inspiration to our artists over the next couple of days.
Enjoy the festival! David Francis Director of Arts, Dartington
2
Welcome Welcome to the Home Festival, in this our second year, here in the unique and historic setting of Dartington Hall. In a summer calendar packed with many events all over the UK, we hope that our festival, with acoustic music at its heart, held here in one of the most beautiful locations in the country, will provide a magical experience and a true celebration of cultural diversity. Your programme gives you a full schedule of performances and activities as well as some information and insight into the wonderful artists performing this weekend. All of the organisers and staff who have collaborated to bring Home to life here would like to welcome you most warmly to Dartington. We hope that you will have a great time this weekend and we would love to hear from you with your feedback and any suggestions you may have for the future. feedback@dartington.org
3
Sheema Mukherjee & Sitar Funk Ensemble
Sheema Mukherjee is one of the country’s foremost sitar players and an artist who both embraces and transcends the musical traditions with which she was born. Sheema works across many styles and genres, from eastern and western classical music, to jazz, pop and dance music. For the festival this weekend she will bring her improvisational live quartet, The Sitar Funk Ensemble, for a Friday night indoor dance set, before her classical recital in the Great Hall on Saturday afternoon. Sheema’s family has a distinguished musical pedigree. Brought up between Britain and India, she absorbed North Indian classical music and the western tradition side-by-side, studying sitar and Indian classical music under the tutelage of her uncle, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and then with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Sheema began her study of North Indian classical music at the age of five with the guidance of one of the greatest Indian classical vocalists, Ustad Amir Khan. She was presented a sitar at the age of nine by her illustrious uncle, Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, under whom she began her study of the sitar in the rigorous and disciplined manner of traditional Indian classical music teaching. After the death of Pandit Nikhil Banerjee in 1986, she began studying with the great Ustad Ali Akbar Khan at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Francisco.
4
Sheema Mukherjee & Sitar Funk Ensemble "My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise. Indian music is based on spiritualism and was practiced and learned to know the Supreme Truth. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners and take them towards space. This is the history of Indian music." With this rich background to draw upon in her own compositions and collaborations, Sheema now tours the world with a variety of ensembles and she has also collaborated with a huge range of renowned artists - including Sir John Tavenor, Martin Carthy, Bobby Mcferrin, Boris Grebenshikov, Natacha Atlas, Noel Gallagher & Cornershop, Mercan Dede and Courtney Pine. A versatile and creative musician, Sheema Mukherjee is constantly evolving, both as a composer and collaborator.
The Ensemble: Sheema Mukherjee: Sitar Larry Whelan: Keyboards Mittal Purohit: Tabla Hamilton Lee: Drums
5
State of Emergency
The Company: Director: Deborah Baddoo Dancers: Sade Alleyne, Keisha Grant, Carl Harrison, Lerato Lipere, Gerrard Martin Singers: Steve Marshall, Elroy Powell, Owen Bradnock Production Manager: Anthony Osborne
State of Emergency is a company with a passionate long-term vision to support and develop black dance in the UK, working both nationally and internationally to create a strong place for Black dance in the national culture. At The Home Festival, State of Emergency are presenting a unique international dance theatre project, commissioning a brand new work by acclaimed South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma.
Desert Crossings: 2011 Desert Crossings takes its inspiration from the fact that the English Jurassic coast and the Skeleton coast of Namibia were once, millions of years ago, part of the same land mass - the Pangaea desert. Gregory Maqoma’s choreography evokes ideas of the past when the continents were united - imagining and dramatising collective memories of the creatures that once inhabited the land mass. As a choreographer Maqoma has always been expert at conjuring the visionary and the magical. In Desert Crossings, his dance imagery evokes millennia of evolution and expresses themes of transition, migration, displacement, ritual and celebration. Composer Steve Marshall, has created an atmospheric and energetic narrative score that complements and drives the dance, evoking images of collective force and the vast geography of southern Africa; its desert winds and epic landscape.
6
Max Pashm/Sound Transmission / DJ Desperado Max Pashm describes himself as a musician, DJ, performer, re-mixer and Producer Extraordinaire, specialising in Electro Swing, Balkan Beats, Klezmer Breaks and Mediterranean Mestizo. Max founded the Pashm Project in 1995 and released his debut album on Sony Music ‘Weddings, Bar-mitzvahs & Funerals’ in 1997. The album charted across Europe and included the groundbreaking Kritika-Dance song ‘Queen of Sikim’. In the years since, Max has gained a massive international profile with his unique live shows, incorporating multi-lingual vocals with his sure-fire dance beat mixing. Max is respected as one of the early pioneers of electro world fusion music and he has worked with a wide range of artists including Nitin Sawhney, The Levellers and George Kypreos. He continues to thrill audiences worldwide with his solo, DJ and band performances, recently touring in Europe, Canada, USA and Mexico as well as here in the UK. Also featured on Friday night will be Sound Transmission, bringing a mix of dub plates and classic reggae, plus a set of African and Latin dance classics from vinyl-veteran DJ Desperado.
7
Seckou Keita & Binta Susso
Seckou Keita is an outstanding kora player and drummer from Casamance in southern Senegal. He is a descendant of the Keita ‘family of kings’ from Mali and Seckou has also inherited a direct legacy of music from his mother’s family, the Cissokhos, who are a griot family of hereditary musicians. Seckou is a charismatic live performer and one of the few champions of the rhythmically rocking kora repertoire of Casamance. He’ll be performing today together with the fantastic singer Binta Susso. He launched his international career in 1996, subsequently joining the popular world music group Baka Beyond as drummer in 1998. Throughout his career, Seckou has worked both as a solo musician and in collaboration with many acclaimed figures, including Indian violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam. “Everything in music has to be honest, and the deeper meanings of the songs and melodies must be preserved”, he explains. “This is why it’s important that collaborations should be right for the music.” It is clear that Seckou’s many collaborations have fed and extended rather than diluted in any way the African mainspring of his music. Seckou is also a musical innovator and he uses original tunings in a significant contribution to kora music. “There are four basic traditional tunings,” he explains, “...each linked to the different kora-playing regions of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mali. Each region has its own distinct tuning. My own approach has been to put all these tunings together in the same instrument, so while still rooted in tradition, the sound is quite different and the range of material I can perform is greatly extended.”
8
Fernhill Fernhill create a new musical landscape from the dance rhythms and folk poetry of Wales and they have been described as ‘the band at the heart of the Welsh renaissance’. Their brilliant new album, Canu Rhydd, was recorded at Dartington Hall, written in the spirit of bardic verse and as an expression of the free will of the poet. The literal translation of Canu Rhydd is ‘free poetry’ and with this set of songs Fernhill continue their pioneering exploration of vernacular Welsh verse and music. The songs have been lovingly assembled from odd verses and fragments of manuscripts; and from the expression of the ordinary people of Wales. These songs are touching and beautiful; about love, place, birds, forests and everyday life.
The Band: Tomos Williams: trumpet, flugelhorn. corn Christine Cooper: fiddle, voice. (ffidil, llais) Julie Murphy: voice, (sruti. llais, sruti) Ceri Rhys Matthews: guitar, flute, voice. (gitar, ffliwt, llais)
9
Perunika Trio
With haunting acapella harmonies, Perunika Trio incorporate Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian traditional music into a broad Slavic repertoire and their name reflects the mystical sources of their beautiful singing. Their vocal sound is rooted in the forests and plains of southern Bulgaria. With songs traditional and nostalgic, they invoke an earlier age where singing and vocal harmony were held in the greatest esteem. The Daily Telegraph described the group as “combining a madrigal-like delicacy with a brooding Eastern Orthodox spirituality." Perunika Trio were formed in London by artistic director Eugenia Georgieva and the performances they have evolved include poetry and story telling. The three singers of Perunika share a deep love of the dramatic beauty of Bulgarian folk music. They create a unique journey into Slavic spirituality where pagan past, Church Slavonic tradition and five centuries of Ottoman rule are evoked and celebrated within truly beautiful music.
The Trio: Eugenia Georgieva: Director and Vocalist Desislava Vasileva: Vocalist Jasmina Stosic: Vocalist
10
Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos Formed in London in 2008, Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos are an inspiring group of travelling musicians from Argentina, Italy, Slovakia and Portugal. They bring together a range of influences, creating a blend of music that is part Balkan Gypsy, part Latin, touched by the middle East and shaken with a twist of hip-hop. Led by classically trained saxophonist Alejandro Toledo, the band tour widely and have been building a huge international reputation over the last three years. In advance of their visit to Dartington, Alejandro sat down to write to us with a few thoughts about the band’s music. “I think we live in a unique time when cultures and people are brought together and defined beyond geographic boundaries. Saying that roots music derives from regional and ‘uninfluenced’ cultures is unrealistic; at least in our new century. This is nothing new. It has been there all along since globalisation began in the ’eighties. Whether this has been a positive or negative transformation for roots musics around the world (I think positive), the fact of the matter is that all music in the twenty-first century wears signs of interactions. I think this is exciting; the possibilities for thinking about music become immense; that is how we define our ‘roots’ music.”
The Band: Alejandro Toledo: Saxophone Maurizio Pala: Accordion Davide Lufrano: Guitar Michele Montolli: Double Bass Nuno Brito: Percussion
11
Tamikrest
The Band: Ousmane Ag Mossa, Aghaly Ag Mohamedine, Mossa Ag Borreiba, Cheick Ag Tiglia, Wannou Wallet Sidaty, Ibrahim Ag Ahmed Salam For people born in this country – here in Devon, perhaps – the idea of ‘home’ most probably implies a relationship with an area no larger than the county itself. For us it is hard to imagine the scale of landscape and space that the members of Tamikrest are used to calling their own home. ‘Tamikrest’ in Tamasheq language means a junction, connection, a knot or coalition. Geographically, the junction that connects Tamikrest is a horizon that spans Mali, Niger and Algeria; a region in northern Africa of more than five hundred thousand square miles. By comparison, Devon measures just two thousand square miles - amazingly, less than one per cent of the size of this band’s Saharan home. “A desert hosts us, a language unites us, a culture binds us” say the band and these young Touareg musicians are now part of a new generation of guitar bands emerging from the nomadic Touareg community of northern Mali. Tamikrest’s appearance at Home Festival forms part of their second-ever visit to this country, and ironically the band’s memories of their first visit recall the size and strangeness of our own geography. “We can remember exactly when we left the continent to travel by ferry to England. You can imagine, we had never seen so much water before. We have only been to London, this big confusing city. I remember it as being very stressful. Lots of traffic, hectic, but people also welcomed us, very friendly, and helpful.” We hope that Tamikrest will find this, their first visit to the rolling scenery and spaces of Devon, will be an even more friendly and less stressful experience!
12
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara Justin Adams has led a life devoted to music. His first band were London hybrid rockers The Impossible Dreamers. Subsequently, Justin joined Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart before establishing his own African-influenced band, The Wayward Sheikhs. Justin’s musical individuality drew the attention of Robert Plant and over the last ten years Justin and Robert have both written and toured together, exploring the roots of North African music that fascinate both of these artists. Now, Justin has joined Gambian master musician Juldeh Camara to create a remarkable musical partnership. Juldeh Camara is a true African master musician, taught to play by his blind father, who himself was taught directly by the djinn. Playing the ritti, a one-stringed fiddle and West African ancestor of the violin, Juldeh participated as a griot in traditional Fula society. Juldeh has the drive and effortless flow of a great Bluesman, and while his instrument brings to mind Delta players like Big Joe Williams, as well as Malian legend Ali Farka Touré, there is a lilt in his playing that hints at the ancient links between North Africa and the Celtic World. Together, Justin and Juldeh draw upon their influences and sensibility to make a uniquely powerful music.
“Magnificent” The Guardian.
13
Timetable of Events: HOME Festival
14
Timetable of Events: HOME Festival
15
Martha Tilston
With her gloriously clear and seductive voice, Martha Tilston is an enchanting singer and songwriter. She creates a highly personal musical world with songs of intimacy and vulnerability, drawing also upon a theatrical training in her captivating stage performances. Martha has built a passionate musical following over the last ten years and has released four outstanding albums of original songs. It is hardly surprising that Martha is such an original and accomplished performer. Her childhood home was surrounded by music, art, poetry and drama, and she has always been encouraged to express herself through the creative arts. Her father is acclaimed singer-songwriter Steve Tilston; stepmum the glorious London-Irish folk singer Maggie Boyle; her mum Naomi is a talented artist, while stepdad Frank is a theatre director. These various creative influences combined. Martha heard folk luminaries such as Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell and John Renbourn playing in the kitchen with her dad, she learned traditional songs from Maggie Boyle; forming a rich background to Martha’s evolving love of folk music. With a burgeoning solo career, Martha remains a free spirit, questioning without confrontation, and finding a way to people’s hearts with her exquisite words and music.
16
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega is a songwriter and singer of the rarest quality. There is a heart and an art of simplicity that runs quite distinctly throughout Suzanne’s songwriting and she is rightly recognised as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation. Born in California but brought up from an early age in New York City, the people and streets of Manhattan have shaped Suzanne’s musical outlook deeply. She speaks of New York’s crowded, human intensity; yet also the privacy and solitude that accompanies so many lives in the City. Identified with the acoustic and folk music of urban America, Suzanne emerged as a recording artist during the mid-eighties, bringing songs often both intimate and observational, both poignant and reflective. Her precise imagery and lyrical detail have created a narrative voice that is absolutely individual. With more than six million records sold worldwide, throughout her career Suzanne’s literate and emotional intelligence have created a unique body of work and she is also a published author. The Passionate Eye, a collection of poems, lyrics, essays and journalistic pieces, is published by Harper Collins. It is a great honour to welcome Suzanne for her first appearance at Dartington during her brief visit to this country. Suzanne Vega: Voice and guitar Gerry Leonard: Guitar
17
Glorious Chorus
The Chorus Helen Yeomans Adam Griffin Brad Richecoeur Catherine Wilcox Catherine McGee Colin Middleton Daverick Leggett Diantha Harvey Faith Burch Felicity Scott
Frankie Phillips Holly MacInnes-Hurd Inez Aponte Jo Curry Jo Ley Jodie White Katrina Crowley Liz Carter Louise Parker Lynne Paterson
Malcolm de Medwe Miesje Waalewijn Mike Brooks Neil Hammacott Nick Price Nirmal Prem Rachel Thame Rachael Thomas Sabine Rademacher Sarah Gillmore Susie Honnor
Glorious Chorus return to Home with a selection of music from their forthcoming One World production. The choir is directed by award-winning composer Helen Yeomans and this new work of original songs and spoken word is inspired by Mayan prophesies of evolutionary change and humanity.
18
Julaba Kunda Today, here at Home, Julaba Kunda bring a second musical collaboration featuring Juldeh Camara. This exciting new partnership is between two traditional fiddlers with their roots three thousand miles apart. Griselda Sanderson and Julaba Kunda explore the relationship between Juldeh’s West African ritti, the one-stringed fiddle of ancient design, and its European cousins, the bowed stringed instruments of the violin family and the Swedish nyckelharpa. You can read more about Juldeh on page thirteen of your programme. His partner in Julaba Kunda, Griselda Sanderson, has violinists on both sides of her family going back several generations. Both her father and maternal great aunt played in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and she grew up in Clackmannanshire, where she picked up traditional Scottish fiddle styles from around the country. She also plays the nyckelharpa, a Scandinavian bowed keyed fiddle. Juldeh and Griselda’s musical meeting features fiddling traditions that range from the Fulani people of west Africa to Scottish strathspeys and reels, as well as Swedish polkas. They explore differences and similarities in their playing techniques and repertoire and explain the social function of the music within their diverse musical cultures. Both players combine older styles with more modern ones, demonstrating how their playing still reflects the values inherent in the oral traditions of their people.
19
Adrian Freedman
Adrian is a composer and teacher as well as a remarkable musician. His instrument is the traditional Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute and Adrian spent seven years in Japan studying this ancient instrument. The shakuhachi has a history stretching back over a thousand years. It has a unique sound that cannot be imitated by any other instrument. When looked at, nothing could seem more simple: a hollowed out bamboo stalk with just five holes; yet despite its simple appearance it has a reputation as being one of the most difficult instruments to master, and is capable of producing a remarkably beautiful range of expressive tones. Originating in a spiritual practice known as suizen (blowing zen), the shakuhachi evolved as a meditation aid for the Komus么 Japanese Zen monks of nothingness. In the hands of a true artist, the sound of the shakuhachi comes from the edge of silence, crossing boundaries of time and culture to echo in the soul.
20
South West Music School
The SWMS programme is inclusive, open to all, regardless of musical or personal background. The school is also musically inclusive – designed to identify and nurture exceptional instrumental and vocal talent from all areas of music and supporting high levels of musicianship and commitment. We are a virtual school, not based in one location but working across the whole South West region. We offer a new learning experience, individually tailored to each student’s specific musical needs. Our students make music in their own planned time and we aim to enable them to participate as much as possible in their own musical life. The key is for the students to determine their own programme of individual learning – and in response we can cultivate their ideas, potential and talent. SWMS will be presenting two distinct strands of students’ work and talent during the day. Down in Studio One, six of the School’s most talented drummers and percussionists will be working throughout the afternoon with Bristol artist Simon Preston, prior to a special performance in The Courtyard at 6.40pm. Currently running Southmead Sound School in Bristol, Simon is also Musical Director of Samba Galez, a forty-piece drumming group, as well as working as a music composer for theatre and film.
The Group: Nathan Bawden (Drums) Sam Fisher (Drums) Molly Lopresti-Richards (Marimba) Josh Rose (Drums) Jules Skinner (Percussion) Ben Watton (Drums)
21
For more information please visit: www.swms.org.uk or contact the office on: info@swms.org.uk or 01392 460770.
South West Music School is one of the Centres of Advanced Training supported by the Department for Education Music and Dance Scheme - nurturing exceptionally talented young musicians aged between the ages of eight and eighteen.
Homegrown Stage
SWMS have also invited their most talented singers and songwriters to the festival and the day’s programme within The Barn features: Declan Millar Declan has been writing songs since he started playing guitar aged eight. His songs are written with both a historical, traditional theme as well as modern day material with themes on ecology and personal inspiration of a spiritual nature. Sam Perry and Tom Short Sam and Tom have written and performed music since they were eleven. Sam plays the guitar and sings lead vocals. Tom plays keyboard and sings backing vocals. Martin Skews Born in Cornwall and raised in a small village just outside Falmouth, Martin draws much of his musical inspiration from the area in which he lives, its people and its places. Ben and Alfie Weedon This unusual duo of five-string violin and double bass create an original blend of music and words. Brothers Ben and Alfie combine thought-provoking lyrics and a clear sense of theatre with classical instrumental skills and jazz, folk and world influences. Josie Newton Josie Newton is a law unto herself: she describes herself as ‘a work of art in progress, travelling on a ticket to a different world’. Her original songs have a maturity and style that draw inspiration from her muses, Nerina Pallot, Lifehouse and more recently Lady GaGa as well as a love of folk and pop rock.
22
Workshops Perunika Trio Workshop Following their acapella performance in The Great Hall, Perunika Trio will offer the chance to learn a few of the glorious harmonies and melodies of their Balkan repertoire. Colombian Song Workshop Colombian guitarist Camilo Menjura brings an introduction to Colombian and Latin songs. He will get participants involved with harmony singing and rhythm accompaniments. African Music Workshop For everyone, adults and children over ten, wanting to get their hands and voices involved in an African Music themed workshop ... and maybe perform for an audience. Led by inspirational composer Andrew Dickson (musical director of PuppetCraft, who are creating a new show to be premiered here at Dartington in September). Hugh Nankivell Family Singing Workshop Hugh writes many songs with and for young people and families. Songs about lifejackets, sleeping, snakes, geology... We’ll all be singing old songs, inventing new songs, we’ll shake shakers and ring chimes, we’ll hear instruments from many corners of the world, we’ll laugh, play and have fun... Painting with Natural Paints with Michelle Lane Children will be able to make their own paints from clay, flower petals and fruits and then paint rock art style mandalas which will be bound to willow hoops.
23
Films
Open Air Films A Midsummer Night’s Dream [U]
Benda Bilili [PG]
Friday 24 June Director Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle Cast James Cagney, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Mickey Rooney. USA 1935 / 2hr13m
Saturday 25 June Directors: Renaud Barret, Florent de la Tullaye Documentary 2010 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr25m
What could be more perfect for a midsummer night's screening in a magical garden than this wonderful movie? This 1935 production remains perhaps the most memorable of Hollywood's Shakespeare adaptations. With Academy Award-winning photography and art direction, the all-star cast is superb, bringing both respect and glamour to Shakespeare's timeless script.
This inspirational rags-to-riches rockumentary follows Staff Benda Bilili, a band of Kinshasa street children and middle-aged wheelchair users, who have coalesced over the past decade into one of central Africa's most highly-regarded musical outfits. With rumbabased songs ranging across the global spectrum, coupled with some gorgeous, richly textured street-level photography by the directors, the result is artful and utterly compelling.
24
Family Programme Words and Music Words and Music featuring Hannah Silva, Vengeance Tenfold and Hugh Nankivell. Hannah Silva is a Plymouth-based writer, performer and vocal gymnast, described by The Times as ‘one of the most ambitious and entertaining poets in the country’. She performs her poetry internationally, has been featured on Radio 3’s The Verb and is a regular at the London Word Festival. Her current solo show, ‘Opposition’, can be seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. Earl Fontainelle a.k.a. Vengeance Tenfold lives on Dartmoor in Devon where he is working on his PhD dissertation on the subject of silence in the poetics of Plotinus. He plays in the Amsterdam-based Cajun deathcountry band Earl Fontainelle and the Pearl of Great Price and has worked in many other musical and lyrical projects, including a long-term collaborative relationship with Shackleton; most recently they worked together on a live performance alongside the Tom Dale Dance Company involving spoken word, live electronic music, a Siberian Jew’s harp, and a lantern. Hugh Nankivell writes songs obsessively with anyone and everyone about everything and nothing. In the past year he has written songs about ceramics from Denmark and the Lake District, the change of a high school from specialist to academy status, a songcycle to commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of the end of the miner’s strike (with lyrics by Ian McMillan) and a series of settings of poems about birds by Peter Oswald, as well as hundreds of songs about waking up, green tea, beer with children and families in schools and at festivals.
25
Calls of Nature For this activity you need to keep very still and be especially quiet. Stand in a circle and close your eyes for one minute. Listen to the sounds of nature. When the time is up, see who has heard what. How many different sounds did you hear? Can you make a list of which animals you think you heard?
27
A Page of Miscellany Home - the word: Old English häm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heem and German Heim Home Town: In China In Chinese culture and society, a hometown or ancestral home is the place of origin of one’s extended family. It may or may not be the place where one is born. For instance, Physics Nobel Prize winner Tsung-Dao Lee was born in Shanghai, China, but his hometown is listed as Suzhou.
Home Town: in America - there are five: * Hometown, Illinois * Hometown, Pennsylvania * Hometown, West Virginia * Hometown, Missouri * Hometown, San Ramon, California
Home Sweet Home: The phrase Home Sweet Home was first used by the American author and playright John Howard Payne, who used it as a song title in the melodrama The Maid of Milan. ’Amid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.’
House and Home: King Henry IV, Part II “He hath eaten me out of house and home”. - (Act II, Scene I).
Hestia In Greek mythology, Hestia was the first daughter of Cronus and Rhea (Ancient Greek , “hearth” or “fireside”) and she was the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and of the right ordering of domesticity and the family. At every sacrifice in the household she would receive the first offering. In the public domain, the hearth of the prytaneum functioned as her official sanctuary. With the establishment of each new Greek colony, flame from Hestia’s public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement. She sat on a plain wooden throne with a white woolen cushion and did not trouble to choose an emblem for herself. Funny old world, eh?!
28
Festival Information Dartington’s medieval Great Hall has a fantastic acoustic - that’s why we have decided that all performances in the Great Hall will be totally and utterly unplugged. Music in its purely acoustic form. But for the day to work we need your help. It goes without saying that when you are in the Great Hall listening to a performance, please ensure that your mobile phone is turned off, please resist the urge to whisper ‘wow isn't this great’ to your neighbour - essentially, please avoid making all unnecessary noise! Stewards will be letting people in to the hall between numbers. Of course you will be free to leave during the set but we’d really appreciate it if you could do this sensitively between numbers.
Many thanks to all the HOME volunteers who have made the delivery of this Festival possible The Festival Team David Francis: Director of Arts Matthew Linley: Event Producer Victoria Whelan: Assistant Producer Katrina Hurford: Communications Becky Pratchett: Communications Elke Weiler: Event Coordinator Drum: Artistic Director Thomas Brooman: Artistic Director Ninian Harding: Technical Manager Jane Brace: Publicist Danielle Rose: Live Art Producer Lisa Tregale: South West Music School Director Sarah Lawrence: Volunteer Coordinator Ulysses Alvarez: Volunteer Coordinator Sam Macaulay: Senior Event Manager Programme Design and Production Design: Carey at Scarlet Design Logo and Graphic: Believe In Maps painted by: James Stewart Text and Editor: Thomas Brooman Printed by: Bishops Printers For more information about Dartington see our web site at www.dartington.org
29
site map (lower close area: Friday’s performances)
Studio 3 Studio 1 Studio 6
30
site map (courtyard area)
The Ship Upper Gatehouse
Great Hall
Outdoor Stage
The Barn White Hart Bar
31
For tickets and full info Suzanne Vega www.dartington.org/home Tamikrest The Dartington Hall Trust is registered as a charity Alejandro Toledo & the Magic Tombolinos Sheema Mukherjee Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara Perunika Trio Julaba Kunda Seckou Keita Martha Tilston SWMS Home Grown Stage Glorious Chorus Zinga
Sitar Funk Ensemble Desert Crossings Max Pashm (DJ set)