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HOMINGTON INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL Sept 6-8 St Mary’s Church, Homington, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Chlöe Herington and Craig Fortnam are pleased to announce the inaugural Homington International Arts Festival (HIAF), to be held on the 6th - 8th September in Homington Wiltshire. Featuring two evening concerts plus daytime events of poetry, music, art, dance and spoken word. All events will be in the beautiful village church of St Mary The Virgin.
Acts include The Utopia Strong, Maggie Holland, VÄLVĒ, artworks by Jeffrey Walker, talks, poetry and music with, amongst others, Matthew Cutts, Emily Jones and Craig Fortnam.
Weekend and individual event tickets are available now!
*Friday 6th MAGGIE HOLLAND + VÄLVĒ
Hampshire-born and integral part of the UK folk scene, singer, guitarist and banjo player Maggie Holland has been releasing records and performing for decades, both solo and with groups including the Hot Vultures, the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth. Her songs have been performed by many artists including Martin Carthy and June Tabor. In 1999 she won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Song Of The Year for ‘A Place Called England”.
During 2022 Maggie recorded an album called The Dust of Rage, released in 2023. It includes three original songs, but mostly a selection of (stunning) songs by other writers, i.e. Woody Guthrie, the Oysterband, Bruce Cockburn, Leon Rosselson, Chris Smither, Duffy Power, Bob Dylan, Steve Clark, Butch Hancock, Don West/Dave Arthur and Derroll Adams.
“Proof that outstanding contemporary songs are still being written” Colin Irwin, fRoots
Support comes from VÄLVĒ
What is VÄLVĒ? Folk lullabies re-imagined by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Found-sound collages interrupted by Welsh language orations and sudden outbursts of fuzz bass. Gleaming synthpop workouts that collapse into swirling dreamscapes of sax and harp. Tiny sounds opening out onto the epic. Hi-tech and no-tech, deployed with equal measures of discipline and abandon. Carefully sculpted disorder. Uncanny geometries of noise and melody. Dizzy and gleeful and drawn in notebooks. That is VÄLVĒ.
They are Chlöe Herington (Chrome Hoof, Knifeworld) & Emma Sullivan (Chrome Hoof, Stubble Bunny)
*Saturday 7th THE UTOPIA STRONG + BRIAN WRIGHT (solo violin)
Fresh from their latest LP release of BBC Maida Vale sessions, The Utopia Strong bring edifices of psychedelic drone-scapes with modular synths, pipes, drones and guitars; featuring Steve Davis (yes, the snooker player) with Kavus Torabi (Gong, Cardiacs, Knifeworld) and Michael J. York (Coil, Teleplasmiste).
“A triumph of foraging spontaneity…..flowing freely with gathering nuance and texture from a combination of sequencers, samplers, guitars, harmoniums, pipes and there like” Classic Rock Magazine
Support comes from Brian Wright (solo violin) playing Vaughan Williams, Bach and more.
Daytime events (to be confirmed), on the Saturday and the Sunday will include talks, dance ,poetry and music.
Weekend and individual event tickets are available now!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Mary the Virgin Church, Homington, Wiltshire, St Mary the Virgin, Lower Road, Salisbury, SP5 4, United Kingdom,Salisbury, Wiltshire
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