This year’s great line-up includes: Gavin Davenport, Janet Russell, Tom Kitching, Sandra Kerr and Sam Lee as well as a host of events and activities for you to enjoy and take part in.
From the legendary co-creator of the Bagpuss songs, to the voice on the stunning soundtrack to Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming Hollywood blockbuster, this autumn’s Baring-Gould Folk Weekend in Devon promises to be a rare treat for lovers of traditional music in all its forms.
In fact, the 18th annual festival in the Dartmoor town of Okehampton on Friday 21 to Sunday 23 October could well be the most varied yet, with a deliberate switch by its organisers to showcase more Devon-based singers and musicians as well as established names from across the UK. The event takes place at various venues in the town and includes performances of two concerts created and performed in 2016 by members of some of Wren’s 16 community choirs and orchestras. Soloists now performing in their own right but who started off in Wren’s groups are also in the festival line-up, together with Wren founders Paul Wilson and Marilyn Tucker, and Wren patron Phil Beer from Show of Hands.
There’s another chance for people to get involved on Saturday afternoon, with a Folk Café followed by a Blackboard Concert at Charter Hall, where people can put their names down to sing or play – and festival performers can do the same. Also listed for Saturday’s programme are Phil Beer and the Wren Ceilidh Band with Cate Bannister calling.
Tickets are £40 for admission to all events over the weekend, or £120 for four tickets.
The festival is followed by the week-long Baring-Gould Song School at Wren’s HQ in Okehampton, where Sam Lee and Sandra Kerr will be joining Wren’s tutors at the start of the week.
For more information, visit www.baring-gould.co.uk; to book tickets, go to www.devonshiredumpling.co.uk. Or contact Wren Music on 01837 53754.
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