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"MIS year’s Bowland Arts Festival, run­ ning throughout May and June, is the perfect opportunity to discover the rich seam of culture running through this beautiful area. The Forest of Bowland is renowned for its


outstanding natural beauty and Ijreathtaking landscapes, straddling both Lancashire and North Yorkshire. Its arts festival features a packed programme of creative trails and ac­ tivities, performance, exhibitions, and work­


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shops. Festival events have been organised by a host of arts organisations and venues, such as Spot On, who bring performance to local venues. You can expect the unexpected with the


New Rope String Band, discover the story of a meadow with Blaize Theatre and have some musical fun with Edinburgh Fringe award winners Barbershopera. The Arts Festival showcases Bowland’s creative talent with a host of open studios.


Keeping G&S alive and singing


BANK HALL AUCTIONS Off Colne Road, Burnley, BB10 3AT


AUCTION SALE


THURSDAY 12TH MAY START 10AM Order of sale:


General & Household Goods Antiques & Collectables


Hot & Cold Food available at our "Gavel & Grub" Cafe


Furniture (start 1pm) Large FREE car park


Full & Part House Clearances at compelitive rates.


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BLOOMING MARVELLOUS


FUN PACKED FORTNIGHT highlights


UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GB KATE RUSBY • ALAN BARNES


GERRY & PACEMAKERS & THE SEARCHERS MUGENKYO DRUMMERS


THE EDWARDIAN FARMERS JANE AUSTEN EVENING KANDA BONGO MAN FANTASTIC MR FOX


CHRIS BEARDSHAW • lEMN SISSAY and much more including


EXCITING FRINGE EVENTS . WALKS • WORKSHOPS • FIIMS


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BARNOLDSWICK Gilbert and Sullivan So­ ciety, sadly the only G&S society in the area now that Burnley’s has folded, will be perform­ ing the ever-popular “Trial by Jury”, but with a modem flavour, at Bamoldswick Civic Hall on May 19th, 20th and 21st. The second half of the show will be at the


“Court of Make Believe”, with a selection of music from Camelot, Spamelot, A Connecti­ cut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, and the Wizard of Oz.


ickets are available from Brian Hartley on 01282815724.


St. Catherine's Church


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Sunday May 8th 9am - 4pm


Admission SOp West Bradford


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Friday 6th May 7.30pin


THE SEARCHERS in concert Tickets: £17.50 / £15


Fri 20th May 8pm CLONE ROSES


plus The Mockingbirds Tickets: £10 / £12 on the day


Sat 21st May 7.30pm


The New Squadronaires Orchestra Presented by ex Syd Lawrence Orchestra


Vocalist Mark Porter Tickets: £16 Discoimts £12


Sat 7th May 7.30pm / £15 THE FAIREY


(GENEVA) BAND in concert with the ROSSENDALE MALE VOICE CHOIR & the


ROSSENDALE LADIES CHOIR All proceeds in aid of MacMillan cancer support


Sat 14th May 8pm An Audience with


IMRAN YUSUF £ 12/£10


Thursday 19th May 7.30pm


THE MANFREDS £18.50


Coming Soon - COLIN FRY - Michael Jackson Tribute - Jimmy Tarbuck Phil Cool - Dom Jolly r An Evening with Blake - Oniid Dajili


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L witn additional and traditional Sunday Roast option) Table reservation is advisable.


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Latest Concerts & Gigs in association with MCT For more details cairoi 772 838080


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Loral and traditional favourites are here too, home cooked and using the finest and


Monday - Friday: IZnoon to 3.00pm and 6.00pm to 9.00pm


freshest local ingredients. FOOD IS SERVED


Saturday: IZnoon to Z.OOpm and 6.00pm to 9.00pm


Saturday Night London Theatre


2 days, monthly departures throughout 2011 from£124.9Spp


• A ticket for a Saturday evening performance of the show of your choice from our fabulous selection


• Overnight stay at a 4 star outer London hotel with full English breakfest • Free time in London for shopping or sight-seeing • Return coach travel from Burnley, Clitheroe, Colne, Nelson & Padiham


Also available by rail - please call for details t Perforrnances start at 7-30 p.m. and advance


Holden Chapel


Sunday School Anniversary


Sunday 8th May at 1.30pm and 7pm


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Led by Mr Mark Sleet Items by The Young


arts trails and exhibitions across the area. From ceramics to photography, painting and local crafts this is great opportunity to be in­ spired. You can learn a new skill at one of the


many creative workshops - with activities ranging from family printmaking and ceram­ ics workshops to sketching in the woods, silk painting and architectural casting. And the really good news is that many of


the events are free, whilst for others there is often only a small fee. You can find full details and booking information, essen­ tial for most of the events at wivw.bow- landarts.co.uk Bowland Arts Festival is co-ordinated


by Sue Flowers, an environmental artist, based at Green Close Studios in Lanca­ shire, whose energy and passion has been the driving force behind the event. Sue said: “The Bowland Arts Festival


has grown from strength to strength - this year we have even more arts partners committed to programming and develop­ ing innovative arts events which highlight the importance of the environment and the very special habitats which make up the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.” For full details of all the events and to download an events programme, visit: www.bowlandarts.co.uk Alternatively, for a printed event guide


contact Green Close Studios, tel 015242 21233, or e-mail info@greenclose.ofg


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Clltheroe Advertiser & Times, Thursday, May 5,2011 Folk coup for Mellor Brook J M S M i i B


DRIVING FORCE: Sue Flow­ ers, originator and co-ordina­ tor of the Bowiand Arts Fes­ tival


into the regular touring group per­ forming characteristic big harmony arrangements of folk song in con­ cert halls up and down the coun­ try. As well as the regular family get-togethers, both have pursued separate careers away from the mi­ crophone. Marry became a graphic designer and sculptor and raised a family. Oliver Knight became a gardener. He maintained a link with folk music as a record produc­ er and sound engineer, but had to complete the recording of “A Bed of Roses”, a second album made with his mother Lai Waterson, on his own after her unexpected death in 1998. Thirteen years later and the spectre of Lai Waterson pervades this debut collaboration of her offspring.


terson and Oliver Knight grew up with the sound of singing. As part of the Waterson Family musical dynasty, these siblings thrived on communal music malong. They were inevitably co-opted


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view of their debut album, “The Days That Shaped Me”, which was released at the end of March: Brother and sister Marry Wa­


the son and daughter of the late Lai Waterson, a mainstay of the Brit-folk family group The Wa- tersons until her untimely death in 1998. The family group continues to perform and includes folk lumi­ naries Martin and Eliza Carthy. Here is Seamus Heffernan’s re­


Brook Community Centre, which has previously booked a range of high .profile artists and is building a strong following for its regular music shows. The brother and sister duo are


A RIBBLE Valley village has again struck folk music gold, securing the only North West show on a national tour by the widely accclaimed Marry Wa- terson and Oliver Knight. It is the latest coup for Mellor


FAMILY TIES: Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight, who will play at Mellor Brook Commu­ nity Centre on May 14th.


tribute concert at Cecil Sharp House. Soon after, “Migrating Bird: The Songs of Lai Waterson” featured the new wave of British folk, James Yorkston, King Creo­ sote, The Memory Band, Alasdair Roberts and others covering com­ positions of the Hull-born song­ stress. Perhaps the resurgence in inter­


est in mother Lai’s work prompted son and daughter to put on a more formal footing the collaboration they had fostered in Oly’s record­ ing studio after laying down a few song ideas. They have developed a contem­ porary while distinctly English


commands as much interest now as ever it did. Not so much for her raucous harmony singing of tradi­ tional folksong with brother Mike and sister Norma - a crowd-pulling act on the folk club circuit - but for her own song-writing on a handful of recordings made in the ’70s and the ’90s. In 2007, the BBC recorded a


The music of Lai Waterson


a tribute album, it is an homage to mother Lai, however inadvertent were such intentions. Was it the fear of the inevitable comparison with mother which delayed this kindred collaboration? Marry confesses to listening to her moth­ er’s music in the days immediately following her death then, within a couple of weeks, of being unable to confront its significance until another nine years later. Perhaps now is the right time for us and for her to hear the natural


tors includes James Yorkston, co­ writer of “Yolk Yellow Legged”, and who also duets with Marry on the track, while fellow Fence Col­ lective member, Ruben Taylor tinkles a sauntering jazz piano on “Run To Catch a Kiss”. Kathryn Williams who, like Yorkston, per­ formed at the 2007 Lai Waterson tribute concert, co-writes “Father Us” and “Secret Smile”, singing harmonies on both (repaying Mar­ ry’s favour of singing on the Lal-in- spired “Winter Is Sharp” on Kath­ ryn’s album The Quickening) Whilst the record is certainly not


performance style infused with more than a hint of Mum’s whim­ sical and melancholic song-writ­ ing. While this style owes much to the folk tradition, it certainly isn’t beholden to it. The duo’s de­ but recording shows off Marry’s direct and poignant delivery of a lyric, at once nostalgic for the in­ nocence of childhood, then phleg­ matic as if portrayed by a neutral observer from a distance. Oliver Knight’s guitar settings are subtle and weave a soft fabric around his sister’s grainy voice. The use of string arrangements, some crafted by cousin Eliza Carthy, shows simi­ lar subservience to the vocal lines. Eliza is afforded centre stage on “The Loosened Arrow”, where she takes the lead voice. A modicum of co-collabora­


infiuence of her mother which pervades the conscience if not quite the musical notes of this dreamy collection. Many Waterson and Oliver Knight, with


special guest Ed McGurk, will play Mellor Brook Community Centre, on Saturday May 14th, doors open at 7-30 p.m. for an 8 p.m. start. Tickets cost £11 and are avail­


able in person from The Britannia Gallery, 104 Branch Road, Mellor Brook (open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9-30 to 4-30 and Saturday 9-30 to 2), or by send­ ing a cheque payable to “J. ASPIN” and enclosing a stamped addressed envelope to: Shamrock Promotions, 53 Briar Road, Blackburn, BBl 9TF.


What's On


Friday 6th May - Comedy Night, with Special Guest comedians from the Edinburgh


Tattoo Festival. Book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets £5.00.


6th May - 8th May Sheep Festival, activities and food served from 11.30am - 3pm.


Sunday 29th May - Charity Race Night from 8.30pm


All money raised will be donated to


Wish House Childrens Charity.


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