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Group of Acoustic Musicians needed
Group of Acoustic Musicians (minimum 2) wanted for an open rehearsal/ jamming session with writers present. (Unpaid apart from reasonable expenses) Arachne Press are running a two hour writing workshop...
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The Story Sessions: Family Tales videos
Here are the video snippets from last week’s Story Sessions, which featured our first poets. Unfortunately Esther Poyer was unable to join us, but we hope she will come along another time. So here are...
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Solstice Shorts Festival – Update
Plans for the Solstice Shorts Festival are continuing apace. A celebration of National Short Story Day, of the Winter Solstice and of the narrative power of folk music, bringing together story and song...
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Solstice Shorts Folk
Some people might be wondering why what is essentially a literature festival has so much music in it, and folk music at that. You can find out the thinking behind it on Cherry Potts’ blog. Let’s...
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Solstice Shorts Festival – why we are doing BSL interpretation
When planning a festival (she says like she does it regularly) there are some obvious things you need – somewhere to hold it, people to perform, marketing to make sure there’s an audience, that kind of...
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Solstice Shorts Festival – Crowd Fund Countdown day -4
Almost half way there, and barely 4 days to go. I was feeling a bit down about this earlier today, and I was wondering, is this crowdfunding lark just a chimera, put about to tease people? But it seems...
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Brian Johnstone – Robinson
Brian Johnstone‘s poem Robinson, which appears in our forthcoming anthology The Other Side of Sleep, was set to a Jazz score by Richard Ingham in 2011 and performed with a 20 piece jazz band and two...
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Pepper & Shepherd COURAGE Solstice Shorts Folk preview!
A novel experience, getting a private concert from Pepper & Shepherd while we talked about the Time themed set lists for Solstice Shorts Festival. Tempting though it is to hug this rather special...
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More music from Pepper & Shepherd previewing Solstice Shorts Festival Folk
Another song from Pepper & Shepherd from my private concert on Friday. I can’t tell you what fun it is to listen to these guys play live. What a treat we have in store for you at the Solstice...
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Talking about music, time and Solstice Shorts with Pepper & Shepherd
I caught up with Pepper & Shepherd (Anthony Shepherd and James Pepper who are playing for us at the Solstice Shorts Festival) back stage at their gig at Mycenae House on Friday, and we talked about...
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Previewing Solstice Shorts Festival Folk Music – Ian Kennedy & Sarah Lloyd
We spent the morning with Ian & Sarah recently, talking about folk and their plans for Solstice Shorts, and they sang us a few songs. Filed under: Festival, music, Solstice Shorts, Video Tagged:...
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Musicians Ian Kennedy & Sarah Lloyd talk about preparing for Solstice Shorts
I met with Ian & Sarah last week to discuss how their plans for Solstice Shorts were going, and what might be on the set list. here’s what they had to say. Listen to Ian & Sarah singing: …...
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Book your place on Free Solstice Shorts Writers Workshops
As part of the Solstice Shorts Festival Arachne Press and Spread the Word are teaming up to bring this FREE workshop for writers to the festival. Hosted by Paul Sherreard, Writing Dimensions looks at...
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Solstice Shorts Musicians Shadrack Tye talk about Songs on Time
I met Tina, Paul, and Sam from Shadrack Tye the other day, to talk about songs and time, in the run up to Solstice Shorts Festival. This is what they had to say…Filed under: music, Solstice Shorts,...
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Shadrack Tye talk about playing music together as a family
Solstice Shorts Musicians Shadrack Tye are a family group. Here they talk about how they each input into the song writing process and how they started performing together.Filed under: Festival, music,...
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Solstice Shorts – and the judges special recommendations
What a fabulous event! Thrilled by all the performances, and the capacity audience willingly joining in on songs, and sitting captivated by stories. I am proud of everyone who was involved – fit to...
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First Solstice Shorts Festival Video for Twelfth Night
Happy new year! You might think we just took an extra-long break over Christmas but not a bit of it: we’ve been editing the videos of the festival. There are about 60 of them, so be prepared for a long...
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Solstice Shorts Video Cindy George and Pepper & Shepherd
Welcome to the latest video from the Solstice Shorts Festival. Today we have Cindy George reading her Judge’s Favourite Story – With You Through The Night – a tale of growing up with the radio your...
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Summer All Year Long at Solstice Shorts Festival – videos
Some more music from Summer All Year Long. And All Year Long is right – SAYL started thinking about songs for Solstice Shorts back in January last year, looked at hundreds and discarded almost as many,...
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Solstice Shorts Folk Music Videos (with a nautical influence)
Possibly being in Greenwich and so close to the National Maritime Museum turned our musicians minds to the joys of the sea, but there were quite a few songs about or influenced by the sea and ships....
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