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Our Pandemonium! kids festival for 0-10-year-olds is
all set for a Wonderful Woodland programme
this year, brought to you by the team from Lovelyland.
Get creative with nature-art
workshops, den
building, costume
making, and painting
sessions or learn how to embroider beautiful
leaves for our storytelling tree sculpture.
There will be family
song writing workshops and Junkyard Jukebox
drop-in sessions, melodeon music taster
sessions or the chance to be part of The Big Band.
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Get moving every morning with Believe-in family fun
yoga, try some body percussion and animal boogie
in our dance
workshops, or sign up for the woodland walkabout
party with Sal
Tonge’s silent discos.
Musician David
Gibb will take families on a musical journey
through his hilarious and often surreal imagination and there'll be
the chance to take part in crafts and games in our outdoor family village
including Sergeant
Major Funn with his family games, interactive treasure hunt,
storytelling
sessions and circus
skills.
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And we’re introducing a brand new under 5’s
programme full of sensory activities, story times
and Makaton
music sessions for the Wee Folkies in their very
own woodland wonderland tent.
Refolkus, our programme for
11-20-year-olds, will be unveiling its 2022 line-up very soon!
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Last
call for the Launchpad
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The chance to be part of our festival on the 2022
Launchpad is coming to a close. We’re looking for folk
influenced bands, duos or singer songwriters aged 16 to 26 to apply
for one of the three places available. The Launchpad is very kindly
sponsored by What’s On, the region’s
essential entertainment guide.
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Performers must be available to attend the
festival between Friday August 26th to 29th. They will receive a
free artist and guest ticket, on-site camping and backstage
hospitality. For more information, click here.
To apply, send a short biography including your
location and ages, some links to performances on Soundcloud or
YouTube for example and your contact details to j...@shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk before May 27.
Only the selected performers will be contacted.
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We are honoured to have John Jones (Oysterband) and
Steve Knightley (Show of Hands) as our festival patrons, both of
whom will be performing this year - JJ with his exclusive Rising Road show and Steve in a
rare festival Show of Hands performance as a
duo with Steve Beer.
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Another great SFF is on the horizon. After last year’s
understandable all British line-up it is great to have an
international dimension back.
I saw Judy Collins deliver a consummately professional
and riveting performance at Wickham Festival a few years back.
Timeless. Carlos Núñez is just a master musician and great performer
and has brought the wild sound of the Galician pipes and whistles
into the mainstream of Celtic music.
Add to that the infectious rhythms of John Peel
favourite Kanda Bongo Man and the energy of Black Umfolosi and you
have dance heaven out there under Shropshire skies.
All that and the best beers around. Meet you
there.
JJ.
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One of the highlights of last summer’s festival season
was to play on Shrewsbury’s new open air stage. To look out and see a
host of lights moving like ships at sea during ‘Cousin Jack’ will be
a memory that will stay with me for a long time.
Indeed the whole event seemed to go up another gear
and the new site layout was a real hit with both newcomers and
regulars alike. And what better way to relax between the incredible
music could there be than to sample the delights of the cocktail bus
or the singing and real ales of the mighty Berwick Bar!
As ever Sandra and the team have assembled the season’s best festival
line-up in what now must be Britain’s premiere folk and roots
event.
Steve.
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