MUSIC AND ART
Mariners Away – Dartmoor’s Shanty Singers! The current hype on shanty songs comes as no surprise to South Zeal shanty singers, Mariners Away, who have been singing at festivals throughout the South West for over a decade. Mariners Away usually perform with ten to 12 singers in the ‘crew’ at festivals including Falmouth International Shanty Festival, Lyme Regis and Dartmoor Folk Festivals, Widecombe Fair and many others. They have also sung at weddings - and funerals! Trev Munkenbeck, a a singer and songwriter with Mariners Away, said: ‘The popularity of shanties is down to the rhythm of the songs, and choruses which can be easily learned. They were work songs on the old sailing ships and each song would have related to the rhythm needed for a particular task, be
it raising the anchor or hauling up the sails.’ Mariners Away are in concert at the Sidmouth Folk Festival with one of the South West’s top folk singers, Jim Causley, and their ongoing events, and music, can be found on their website at www.marinersaway.org.uk
One of the main attractions of shanty singing is they can be sung by anyone and Mariners Away welcome anyone who wants to come along and meet them. The main qualification is to be able to give and take a lot of friendly leg-pulling! For more information call Trev on 07737 735400.
July 15 – September 18
Moth Sarah Gillespie’s exquisite mezzotint engravings, silverpoint drawings and artist’s book are a testament to her deep concern for the natural world. This exhibition has given impetus to an important new body of work which Greenhill Arts at Moretonhampstead is delighted to show, emphasising the much maligned moth’s extraordinary delicate beauty, while highlighting the vital role the species play as a necessary food source for a myriad amphibians and birds.
that comes from participation in the whole complex, entangled fabric of life, speaking to us urgently of the dark, of the earth, of all it is we cannot see. That which we know and love, we are far less inclined to destroy, and it is at the edge of a wing that love waits.’
Sarah explained that she wasn’t looking for moths when she started drawing them around ten years ago: ‘They came and found me,’ she said. ‘Their numbers are in appalling decline but for me their presence has become ever more insistent. I see in their short lives a glory See our community website www.dartmoorlinks.co.uk
This exhibition is supported by Devon Wildlife Trust - a piece of Sarah’s work is due to be sold with proceeds going to the Trust.
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