SATURDAY & SUNDAY Childrens ArtART - on the Village Green 11.00 - 3.00pm

All children and parents are welcome to join in making a spectacular Somerset Dragon, which will be on parade around the walnut tree at

3.00pm on Sunday afternoon and accompanied with singing.

16-18 sept

rock/jazz latin/folk

classicalworkshops

kids artpoetry

literaturemorris dancingfood/ice cream

www.priston.org.uk/festival

friday sponsors

Kim Jones will run an hour long Street Dance session, where young and old, expert or

beginner will be able to learn street dance moves, putting them together to create a vibrant andexhilarating group performance.

Special thanks to:

The Co-operative Membership Community Fundfor supporting the purchase of new lighting equipment

The Culrural Olympiad Arts Projectfor supporting three live performances *

Programme printed by !WHATIF? - The Innovation CompanyPriston Festival is a registered charity. Registration number 1143394

8.00pm Three Piece Suite & guests - village hall TICKETS £8 doors open 7.30pm bar A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS:Bath Veterinary Group, Botanical Software, Callan Consultants,

Caracalla - Bath, The Card Collection, City Engineering (Bristol), John Fowle,

Heather Jones, Howard Jones, Lambert Smith Hampton, The Link, Moneywise,

Oil Fired Up Ltd, Opticolour, Priston Mill, Pressbarrow Farm, Roper Rhodes,

The Sash Window Consultancy, Samler Landscapes,

Sharky, Bob & Ian Too!, Timsbury Post Office, John Wilkinson,

!Whatif? - The Innovation Company.

We are also very grateful for donations from Aylet Anderson,

Catherine Whybrow, Martin & Amanda Geake, Niels & Clare Cross,

Tanya Curtis & Richard Williams, & Priston Church..

THANK YOU to Abbey Ales, John Marsden, Priston Jubilee Morris, the Village Hall, Priston Parish Church, the Cricket Club, the Lippiatt family, and other individuals who have

offered the Priston Festival their support, time or equipment.

Susan Chivers is best known for her articles in The English Garden magazine, which is

respected and admired on both sides of the Atlantic. She takes much of her inspiration from thegardens that she visits, and from her own beautiful garden near Bath. On Saturday she talks abouther book Planting for Colour.

Jo SercombeFor the third year running Jo Sercombe, the Festival’s President, willrun The Big Sing workshop which is open to all, regardless of age, skillor experience. Jo brings an informal, passionate style to her teaching.Reaching out to participants, she not only gets them to connect withher, but also with each other in a quite unique way. Have no doubt thatyou will feel genuinely inspired, uplifted and buzzing after the sessionwith Jo!

Soundbeam. . .the invisible expanding keyboard in space! Soundbeam is an award-winning device which uses sensor technology to translate body movementinto digitally generated sound and image. In performance, education and therapy, this unique creative and expressive medium is now widely recognised as 'must-have' 21st Century technology.

saturday

sunday

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programme

Village Hall & Green10.00am Cafe - til 12noon - bacon butties, tea, coffee, cakes.11.00am Market - all day - stalls, BBQ, salad bar, coffee bar, teas, ice creams, raffle.

11.00am Kids Art (til 3pm) - all welcome to join in making a Somerset dragon.

Village Green Stage11.30am Harriet Pimm - young singer songwriter, jazzy and mellow.12.10pm Home Fires - beautiful melodic songs and sounds - flute, guitar, hang, vocals.1.05pm Horizonto - eclectic range of traditional folk.2.00pm Beth Porter & The Availables - unique and refreshingly modern.2.55pm Sarah Clough - a timeless fusion of stripped-down jazz and blues.3.50pm Philip Henry & Hannah Martin - slide guitar, harmonica, fiddle and banjo.

5.10pm K chevere - latin jazz dance rhythmns.

Village Hall afternoon2.00pm Susan Chivers (author) talk ‘Planting for Colour’.3.00pm Kim Jones street dance workshop.

4.30pm Soundbeam a demonstartion of the invisible expanding keyboard in space!

Church6.30pm Live Canon (performance poetry) - church TICKETS £5 doors open 6.15pm wine

7.40pm Adam Purnell (classical guitar) - church TICKETS £5 doors open 7.20pm wine

Village Hall evening8.30pm Gig - Nicole Fermie/Dragsters - village hall TICKETS £6 doors open 8pm bar

Church morning

11.00am Mike Dawes & Amy Turk - guitar & concert harp. TICKETS £3 doors open 10.40am

Village Green12.00am Kids Art day 2 (til 3pm) - all welcome to join in making a Somerset dragon.12.00pm Morris Dancing (til 2pm) - Priston Jubilee Morris and visiting sides dance.

12.00pm Market - all day - stalls, BBQ, salad bar, coffee bar, teas, ice creams, raffle.

Village Hall afternoon2.00pm Jo Sercombe Singing Workshop - all welcome.

3.10pm Shanty Singing Workshop - Bristol Shantymen

Village Green Stage2.15pm Mendip String Band - country and western swing from Somerset!3.15pm Issy & David Emeney and Nigel Hall - folk songs with melodeon, guitar & mandolin.4.20pm Bristol Shanty Men - Traditional sea shanties.

Church evening

6.30pm Freshly Ground Choir - TICKETS £3 doors open 6.10pm

Village Hall evening8.00pm 2 course supper, live music from Benji Bartlett TICKETS £10 doors open 7.30pm bar

2011

Three Piece SuiteJohn Hooper (jazz piano/vocals), Helen James (classical guitar/vocals), Ali Nourse (fiddle/vocals)who form the unique jazz and folk trio, Three PieceSuite, perform concerts all over the West Countryand further afield to delighted audiences. Combiningtheir instrumental skills, plus vocal harmonies, their

performers performers performers performers performers performers performers

Adam Purnell *began playing the classical guitar at the age of eleven under the tutorship of Andrew Britain. He was recently accepted on the ErasmusExchange Programme to study for three months at the KoninklijkAcademy in Brussels with the world famous classical guitarist AntigoniGoni and will take the position this coming September. He enjoys playing a wide ranging repertoire from Renaissance to 20th Century.Recent reviews have praised his flair as a talented player.

Benji BartlettInspired by Hendrix, Bruce Lee, Wolverine, The Tick andSteve Vai, Benji will be performing with his new band at thevillage hall gig on Saturday evening, and also be providing the musical accompaniment to the supper on Sunday evening.Currently teaching guitar and a certified guitar junkie, hewrites songs, repairs and builds guitars and is passionateabout his music.

Beth Porter & The AvailablesBeth is a very much in-demand cellist living in Bath. Drawingfrom her classical background and extensive and varied liveperformance experience, Beth creates a unique and refreshingly modern texture to her repertoire contrasting thecello and ukulele with a voice that will hold your attention rightdown to the last glorious note. When Beth plays with a band,they are The Availables and, as the name implies, they aremade up from a rotating number of some fine musicians.

Bristol Shanty MenThe Bristol Shanty Men proved a big hit with theirperformance at last year's festival and are backagain this year to run a workshop and perform onour outdoor stage.

The DragstersBack again by popular demand - the ultimate rock coversband, The Dragsters perform a heady mix of rock from the70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. With a new line up this year Benjibrings them back to perform another full-on heavy set. Theyhave a dedicated fan base which stretches fromSouthampton to Reading.

Freshly Ground are a freshly brewed ensemble of

eleven of the South West's best known folk singers, who'vecome together to perform English folk songs in glorious harmony, with arrangements written by the choir's instigatorIssy Emeney. The choir sing mainly traditional songs, butinclude some of Issy's original composition's including 'TheLast Tommy', inspired by the passing of Harry Patch,England’s very last fighting Tommy.

Harriet PimmHarriet, guitar player and singer/songwriter, is a regular on theBath music scene. She has a distinctive jazzy, mellow style, andher performances are sure to captivate the Festival audience.

Home FiresThe Home Fires are Nikki Capp (vocals, flute), WillLawton (vocals, piano, hang) and Neil Muttock (guitars). They regularly collaborate with Beth Porter(cello, vocals). Formed in 2010, this West Countryband have been performing together in various guisesfor twenty years. They play real acoustic instruments,blend stunning vocal harmonies and have amazingdepth and honesty in their song writing.

HorizontoHorizonto are Andrea Green (violin), Ed Green (guitar),Tracy Walker (accordion), Tim Watson (percussion),Seona Chapman (violin). They perform an eclecticrange of traditional folk and klezmer music fromIreland, Scotland, France and the Balkans.

Issy & David Emeney with Nigel HallMore often seen performing with their ceilidh bandRapscallion, Issy, David and Nigel have come together as a trio for this festival, to play traditionalsongs and tunes on melodeon, guitar and mandolin.You might even see some Appalachian Clogging from Issy!

K chevereK'Chevere are one of the UK's finest and upcomingLatin bands, formed specially to perform at an open-air concert for the Bath Fringe Festival 2000. Sincethen they have increased the line-up from 5-piece to 8and have performed with guest Latin artists at venuesin the UK. K'Chevere (Que Chevere in Spanish) is generally used in Latin America to describe good feelings, or anything good - exactly how the audienceis likely to feel during and after the performance.

Live Canon * are an ensemble performing poetry in the English

Language (and occasionally bursting into song). They bring poetry tolife. The performances aren't readings. The actors learn all the poetryand perform it from memory. They will be performing an Olympian programme of poems on Saturday evening in the church.

Mendip String BandFrom the heart of the Somerset Levels come thismelting pot of western swing, country boogie and hotblues rags - so prevalent in the pioneers of the westcountry flatland dwellers of the early thirties and forties. Peat bog boogies, tortured ballads of catastrophic crop failures and devastating floods givethis band a highly unique repertoire that is taking theWest Country by storm. Kevin Brown - lap steel/slideguitar, Joff Lowson - guitar, John Boston - fiddle &mandolin, Bill Crampton - upright bass.

Mike Dawes & Amy Turk *Mike Dawes & Amy Turk are guitar and harp likeyou've never heard before. Using a combined 53strings and several feet of wood they tap, slap, pluckand bash their instruments to create a unique andintricate sound. Influenced by everything from folk toblues to classical to rock, Mike Dawes & Amy Turkare a truly unique duo breathing new life into thesounds of the South.

Sarah Clough TrioWith Sarah Clough on vocals, this group play ‘a timeless fusionof stripped-down jazz and blues’.

Nicole FermieHeavy guitars, beautiful vocals and one of the most intense rhythmsections this side of the 70s makes Nicole Fermie an act not to betaken lightly. Hers is a sound harking back to the glory days ofParliament Funkadelic, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, a powerfulmelody with one goal: to make you move. The songs talk of real life; ofparties and failed relationships, of innocence and excess, of life andlearning its lessons.

Philip Henry & Hannah MartinFast becoming recognised as one of the finest slide guitariststhe UK has produced, Phillip Henry is also a virtuoso on theharmonica. Regarded as, “one of the most extraordinary musicians around” (Steve Knightley - Show Of Hands), hebrings together folk melodies of the British Isles, blues, gospeland Indian music in his moving and original compositions. Hannah Martin is a singer, songwriter, fiddle-and-banjo playerfrom Devon. Commended by Mike Harding (BBC Radio Two)for her “really fantastic singing!”, her songs weave folklore andlegend with beautiful melodies.

repertoire ranges from classical interpretations of Concerto de Aranjuez, wild and earthy andsoul searching folk melodies and songs, through to the jazz favourites of Gershwin, Cole Porter,Hoagy Carmichel and Louis Armstrong. They will be performing in the village hall on Fridayevening. The concert will also highlight two talented young musicians: Alex Mayhew (jazz piano)and Arthur O'Hara (bass guitar/double bass).