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Music and Art
Jim Causley sings The Archangel’s Way
Last year The Archangel’s Way pilgrimage walk, which links churches, chapels and communities around north Dartmoor between Brentor and Chagford, was inaugurated at a special event in Belstone.
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Multi-award winning Devonshire singersongwriter and musician Jim Causley was asked to write a special song for the occasion which he premiered to great acclaim on the village green. A film of this performance has now been released on YouTube – just search ‘Jim Causley Belstone’ or use the link https://youtu.be/ GxkJeg7RRGs.
Stone Lane
Call for entries for the Stone Lane Gardens Sculpture ExhibitionApplications are invited from emerging/early career sculptors based in or connected to the South West of England. Organised by Stone Lane Gardens Charitable Trust, submissions are free and open to all. Closing date is March 31 at noon. Please submit photographs of your work or details of proposed work including dimensions and weight if possible.The theme this year is ‘connectivity’ - connectivity may be interpreted in terms of materials, form, growth, and especially potential energy. It can apply to the body (internal to external); to place; to others; or, paradoxically, between materiality and the void. Connectivity implies affinity, openness, both being receptive to, and actively seeking, relatedness.Our 2022 selectors are ceramicist Sandy Brown, arts author and academic Penny Florence and Stone Lane trustee Sandy Lipo. A £1,000 Ashburner prize, supported by Caradon Granite, will be awarded for the sculpture that best represents the theme ‘connectivity’.For more information, visit https://stonelanegardens.com/
Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust partners with charity to help students find their voice!
Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust (DMAT) has embarked on an exciting and ambitious partnership with the Voices Foundation, working with all 14 primary schools within the trust to develop and embed a progressive music curriculum for their pupils, staff and school communities.
Artist Practitioners from the Voices Foundation will work with every single classroom teacher across all 14 DMAT schools to give them the skills, knowledge and confidence to deliver a high-quality music education through singing. Manvinder Rattan, CEO of The Voices Foundation said: ‘I am delighted that we will be working with Dartmoor MultiAcademy Trust to help support musical development for their teachers and through them, so many pupils at their schools.
‘We know that Covid has had adverse effects on so many aspects of school life, not least the wellbeing of children and we also know that more and better and singing not only helps improve wellbeing but also has a positive impact on attainment levels across the curriculum. I look forward to seeing the pupils of Dartmoor enjoying the benefits of all that in due course.’ The programme will run across the academic year and will culminate in a Singing Celebration at the end of the summer term to showcase everything that the teachers and pupils have learnt. The hope is that this partnership will embed music and singing into school life through the curriculum and engages teachers and children by focusing on sustainable and integrated music education for all!
Voices Foundation is a national music charity working to help schools, academies and other partners from across the UK to establish effective music education since 1993. Everyone has a voice, and the belief is that singing is a powerful way for children to become proficient musicians, excel across the curriculum and develop self-esteem.
Veronica Lloyd Richards, Associate Executive Director of Schools for Dartmoor Multi-Academy Trust said: ‘We are truly excited to begin work with the Voices Foundation and support the positive impact it will have across all our Primary schools. Our trust is bursting with creativity and talent, and we believe that every student should have the chance to express themselves through singing and experience the joy of making music together.’
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Okehampton memories are rooted in Haniell’s new music
An Okehampton artist has released a new album focussed on the town and Dartmoor.
This is the third solo album to have been released by Haniell Langton-Laybourn and places around Devon are mentioned, including South Zeal, Okehampton Castle and Dartmoor.
Haniell grew up in Okehampton and lived in the same house on Castle Road until he was 19, so understands the town better than anyone! He now lives in London and this album was created during lockdown, a time when he was unable to travel back home, so this album is his ‘dream-memory’ of Devon. He attended South Tawton Primary School and Okehampton College - he first starting playing guitar when he was eight-years-old and writing songs when he was 15.
‘It was around that age, studying GCSE music with Val Berry at Okehampton College, that music really became the main focus of my life. I played in and briefly conducted the big band there, and I was in a band that won the 2014 Okehampton Battle of the Bands. ‘I’ve released 3 solo albums, and they’re all largely about growing up in Okehampton. These are People Doing Things (2017), Ocmundtune-mastix & Now (2019) and Harry Anne Linseed (2021).
Harry Anne Linseed was recorded during the nationwide lockdown at the start of 2021, when Haniell was furloughed from his job in a bookshop. ‘I recorded it all in my bedroom, with a few cameo appearances from housemates of mine (playing violin and saxophone),’ he said. ‘As usual, the songs are mostly about Okehampton. “Haunted Keep” is about seeing a ghost at Okehampton Castle; “Harvest Festival” is about a mysterious playing card that was stuck to the ceiling of the Victory Hall in South Zeal - we had school assemblies there, and I was always curious about why the card was there; “I Was Walking Again in Dreamland” is inspired by a painting by local artist Sandy Carter called “Walking With a Lion on Klondyke” and is about travelling onto the moor across the A30 footbridge; “Fall of the Granite Man” is a creation story about Dartmoor.’ The artwork is by Thomas Gooch, and he’s incorporated lots of images of Okehampton, including the castle, All Saints Church and the Okehampton Argyle FC kit. He’s done the artwork for all my albums, and has illustrated many places in and around Okehampton. To listen to Haniell’s new album, visit https://haniell.bandcamp.com/album/ harry-anne-linseed
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