Friday 24+Saturday 25 JuneDartington Hall, Totnes, DevonA festival with acoustic music at its heartInternational artists, workshops, films, world market and family events

On behalf of the Arts Team, welcome to Dartington and to this year’s HOME Festival.

HOME is just one element of our arts programme, which also includes the internationallyrenowned Dartington International Summer School, a year-round performanceprogramme and the independent cinema programme in The Barn.

We have just introduced the new SPACE programme of artist residencies and we'redelighted that State of Emergency have been spending time with us developing thedance production Desert Crossings, which you can see on Friday night at HOME prior to an international tour.

The Arts are of course just one part of our work here in Dartington. The Arts Team'swork sits alongside ground-breaking programmes in Sustainability (includingSchumacher College) and Social Justice. You can find out more about our work – and how you can support it - by visiting the information stall on the festival site(located by the archway) or by going to our web site at www.dartington.org

Finally, please do find time to enjoy the gardens and surroundings of Dartington Hall –surroundings which have been the inspiration for many artists and thinkers since thestart of the Elmhirsts’ great experiment – and which we hope will be of equalinspiration to our artists over the next couple of days.

Enjoy the festival!

David FrancisDirector of Arts, Dartington

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Welcome to the Home Festival, in this our second year, here in the unique and historic setting of Dartington Hall.

In a summer calendar packed with many events all over the UK, we hope that ourfestival, with acoustic music at its heart, held here in one of the most beautifullocations in the country, will provide a magical experience and a true celebration ofcultural diversity.

Your programme gives you a full schedule of performances and activities as well assome information and insight into the wonderful artists performing this weekend.

All of the organisers and staff who have collaborated to bring Home to life here wouldlike to welcome you most warmly to Dartington. We hope that you will have a greattime this weekend and we would love to hear from you with your feedback and anysuggestions you may have for the future. feedback@dartington.org

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Sheema Mukherjee is one of the country’s foremost sitar players and an artist who both embraces and transcends the musical traditions with which she was born.

Sheema works across many styles and genres, from eastern and western classicalmusic, to jazz, pop and dance music.

For the festival this weekend she will bring her improvisational live quartet, The Sitar Funk Ensemble, for a Friday night indoor dance set, before her classical recitalin the Great Hall on Saturday afternoon.

Sheema’s family has a distinguished musical pedigree. Brought up between Britain andIndia, she absorbed North Indian classical music and the western tradition side-by-side,studying sitar and Indian classical music under the tutelage of her uncle, Pandit NikhilBanerjee and then with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Sheema began her study of North Indian classical music at the age of five with theguidance of one of the greatest Indian classical vocalists, Ustad Amir Khan.

She was presented a sitar at the age of nine by her illustrious uncle, Pandit NikhilBanerjee, under whom she began her study of the sitar in the rigorous and disciplinedmanner of traditional Indian classical music teaching. After the death of Pandit NikhilBanerjee in 1986, she began studying with the great Ustad Ali Akbar Khan at the AliAkbar College of Music in San Francisco.

Sheema Mukherjee & Sitar Funk Ensemble

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"My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise. Indian music is based on spiritualism and was practiced and learned to know the Supreme Truth. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners and take them towards space. This is the history of Indian music."

With this rich background to draw upon in her own compositions and collaborations,Sheema now tours the world with a variety of ensembles and she has also collaboratedwith a huge range of renowned artists - including Sir John Tavenor, Martin Carthy,Bobby Mcferrin, Boris Grebenshikov, Natacha Atlas, Noel Gallagher & Cornershop,Mercan Dede and Courtney Pine.

A versatile and creative musician, Sheema Mukherjee is constantly evolving, both as a composer and collaborator.

The Ensemble:Sheema Mukherjee: SitarLarry Whelan: KeyboardsMittal Purohit: TablaHamilton Lee: Drums

Sheema Mukherjee & Sitar Funk Ensemble

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State of Emergency is a company with a passionate long-term vision to support anddevelop black dance in the UK, working both nationally and internationally to create astrong place for Black dance in the national culture.

At The Home Festival, State of Emergency are presenting a unique international dancetheatre project, commissioning a brand new work by acclaimed South Africanchoreographer Gregory Maqoma.

Desert Crossings: 2011Desert Crossings takes its inspiration from the fact that the English Jurassic coast andthe Skeleton coast of Namibia were once, millions of years ago, part of the same landmass - the Pangaea desert. Gregory Maqoma’s choreography evokes ideas of the pastwhen the continents were united - imagining and dramatising collective memories ofthe creatures that once inhabited the land mass.

As a choreographer Maqoma has always been expert at conjuring the visionary andthe magical. In Desert Crossings, his dance imagery evokes millennia of evolution andexpresses themes of transition, migration, displacement, ritual and celebration.

Composer Steve Marshall, has created an atmospheric and energetic narrative scorethat complements and drives the dance, evoking images of collective force and thevast geography of southern Africa; its desert winds and epic landscape.

State of Emergency

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The Company:Director: Deborah BaddooDancers: Sade Alleyne, Keisha Grant, Carl Harrison, Lerato Lipere, Gerrard MartinSingers: Steve Marshall, Elroy Powell, Owen BradnockProduction Manager: Anthony Osborne

Max Pashm describes himself as a musician, DJ, performer, re-mixer and Producer Extraordinaire,specialising in Electro Swing, Balkan Beats, Klezmer Breaks and Mediterranean Mestizo.

Max founded the Pashm Project in 1995 and released his debut album on Sony Music‘Weddings, Bar-mitzvahs & Funerals’ in 1997. The album charted across Europe and includedthe groundbreaking Kritika-Dance song ‘Queen of Sikim’.

In the years since, Max has gained a massive international profile with his unique live shows,incorporating multi-lingual vocals with his sure-fire dance beat mixing.

Max is respected as one of the early pioneers of electro world fusion music and he has workedwith a wide range of artists including Nitin Sawhney, The Levellers and George Kypreos. Hecontinues to thrill audiences worldwide with his solo, DJ and band performances, recentlytouring in Europe, Canada, USA and Mexico as well as here in the UK.

Also featured on Friday night will be Sound Transmission, bringing a mix of dub plates andclassic reggae, plus a set of African and Latin dance classics from vinyl-veteran DJ Desperado.

Max Pashm/Sound Transmission / DJ Desperado

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Seckou Keita is an outstanding kora player and drummer from Casamance insouthern Senegal. He is a descendant of the Keita ‘family of kings’ from Mali andSeckou has also inherited a direct legacy of music from his mother’s family, theCissokhos, who are a griot family of hereditary musicians.

Seckou is a charismatic live performer and one of the few champions of the rhythmically rocking kora repertoire of Casamance. He’ll be performing today togetherwith the fantastic singer Binta Susso. He launched his international career in 1996,subsequently joining the popular world music group Baka Beyond as drummer in 1998.

Throughout his career, Seckou has worked both as a solo musician and in collaborationwith many acclaimed figures, including Indian violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam.

“Everything in music has to be honest, and the deeper meanings of the songs and melodies must be preserved”, he explains. “This is why it’s important that collaborations should be right for the music.”

It is clear that Seckou’s many collaborations have fed and extended rather thandiluted in any way the African mainspring of his music. Seckou is also a musicalinnovator and he uses original tunings in a significant contribution to kora music.“There are four basic traditional tunings,” he explains, “...each linked to the differentkora-playing regions of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mali. Each region has its own distinct tuning. My own approach has been to put all these tunings together in the same instrument, so while still rooted in tradition, the sound is quite differentand the range of material I can perform is greatly extended.”

Seckou Keita & Binta Susso

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Fernhill create a new musical landscape from the dance rhythms and folk poetry ofWales and they have been described as ‘the band at the heart of the Welshrenaissance’. Their brilliant new album, Canu Rhydd, was recorded at Dartington Hall,written in the spirit of bardic verse and as an expression of the free will of the poet.

The literal translation of Canu Rhydd is ‘free poetry’ and with this set of songs Fernhillcontinue their pioneering exploration of vernacular Welsh verse and music. The songshave been lovingly assembled from odd verses and fragments of manuscripts; andfrom the expression of the ordinary people of Wales. These songs are touching andbeautiful; about love, place, birds, forests and everyday life.

The Band:Tomos Williams: trumpet, flugelhorn. cornChristine Cooper: fiddle, voice. (ffidil, llais)Julie Murphy: voice, (sruti. llais, sruti)Ceri Rhys Matthews: guitar, flute, voice. (gitar, ffliwt, llais)

Fernhill

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With haunting acapella harmonies, Perunika Trio incorporate Bulgarian, Macedonianand Russian traditional music into a broad Slavic repertoire and their name reflectsthe mystical sources of their beautiful singing.

Their vocal sound is rooted in the forests and plains of southern Bulgaria. With songstraditional and nostalgic, they invoke an earlier age where singing and vocal harmonywere held in the greatest esteem.

The Daily Telegraph described the group as “combining a madrigal-like delicacy witha brooding Eastern Orthodox spirituality."

Perunika Trio were formed in London by artistic director Eugenia Georgieva and theperformances they have evolved include poetry and story telling. The three singers ofPerunika share a deep love of the dramatic beauty of Bulgarian folk music.

They create a unique journey into Slavic spirituality where pagan past, ChurchSlavonic tradition and five centuries of Ottoman rule are evoked and celebrated within truly beautiful music.

The Trio:Eugenia Georgieva: Director and VocalistDesislava Vasileva: VocalistJasmina Stosic: Vocalist

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Formed in London in 2008, Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos are an inspiringgroup of travelling musicians from Argentina, Italy, Slovakia and Portugal. They bringtogether a range of influences, creating a blend of music that is part Balkan Gypsy,part Latin, touched by the middle East and shaken with a twist of hip-hop.

Led by classically trained saxophonist Alejandro Toledo, the band tour widely andhave been building a huge international reputation over the last three years. Inadvance of their visit to Dartington, Alejandro sat down to write to us with a fewthoughts about the band’s music.

“I think we live in a unique time when cultures and people are brought together anddefined beyond geographic boundaries. Saying that roots music derives from regionaland ‘uninfluenced’ cultures is unrealistic; at least in our new century. This is nothingnew. It has been there all along since globalisation began in the ’eighties. Whetherthis has been a positive or negative transformation for roots musics around the world(I think positive), the fact of the matter is that all music in the twenty-first centurywears signs of interactions. I think this is exciting; the possibilities for thinking aboutmusic become immense; that is how we define our ‘roots’ music.”

The Band:Alejandro Toledo: SaxophoneMaurizio Pala: AccordionDavide Lufrano: GuitarMichele Montolli: Double BassNuno Brito: Percussion

Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos

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For people born in this country – here in Devon, perhaps – the idea of ‘home’ mostprobably implies a relationship with an area no larger than the county itself. For us it is hard to imagine the scale of landscape and space that the members ofTamikrest are used to calling their own home.

‘Tamikrest’ in Tamasheq language means a junction, connection, a knot or coalition.Geographically, the junction that connects Tamikrest is a horizon that spans Mali, Nigerand Algeria; a region in northern Africa of more than five hundred thousand square miles.By comparison, Devon measures just two thousand square miles - amazingly, less thanone per cent of the size of this band’s Saharan home.

“A desert hosts us, a language unites us, a culture binds us” say the band and theseyoung Touareg musicians are now part of a new generation of guitar bands emergingfrom the nomadic Touareg community of northern Mali.

Tamikrest’s appearance at Home Festival forms part of their second-ever visit to thiscountry, and ironically the band’s memories of their first visit recall the size andstrangeness of our own geography. “We can remember exactly when we left the continentto travel by ferry to England. You can imagine, we had never seen so much water before.We have only been to London, this big confusing city. I remember it as being verystressful. Lots of traffic, hectic, but people also welcomed us, very friendly, and helpful.”

We hope that Tamikrest will find this, their first visit to the rolling scenery and spaces ofDevon, will be an even more friendly and less stressful experience!

Tamikrest

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The Band: Ousmane Ag Mossa, Aghaly Ag Mohamedine, Mossa Ag Borreiba,Cheick Ag Tiglia, Wannou Wallet Sidaty, Ibrahim Ag Ahmed Salam

Justin Adams has led a life devoted to music. His first band were London hybridrockers The Impossible Dreamers. Subsequently, Justin joined Jah Wobble’s Invadersof the Heart before establishing his own African-influenced band, The WaywardSheikhs. Justin’s musical individuality drew the attention of Robert Plant and over thelast ten years Justin and Robert have both written and toured together, exploring theroots of North African music that fascinate both of these artists.

Now, Justin has joined Gambian master musician Juldeh Camara to create aremarkable musical partnership.

Juldeh Camara is a true African master musician, taught to play by his blind father,who himself was taught directly by the djinn. Playing the ritti, a one-stringed fiddleand West African ancestor of the violin, Juldeh participated as a griot in traditionalFula society. Juldeh has the drive and effortless flow of a great Bluesman, and whilehis instrument brings to mind Delta players like Big Joe Williams, as well as Malianlegend Ali Farka Touré, there is a lilt in his playing that hints at the ancient linksbetween North Africa and the Celtic World.

Together, Justin and Juldeh draw upon their influences and sensibility to make auniquely powerful music.

“Magnificent” The Guardian.

Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara

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Timetable of Events: HOME Festival

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Timetable of Events: HOME Festival

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With her gloriously clear and seductive voice, Martha Tilston is an enchanting singerand songwriter. She creates a highly personal musical world with songs of intimacy and vulnerability, drawing also upon a theatrical training in her captivating stageperformances. Martha has built a passionate musical following over the last ten years and has released four outstanding albums of original songs.

It is hardly surprising that Martha is such an original and accomplished performer. Herchildhood home was surrounded by music, art, poetry and drama, and she has alwaysbeen encouraged to express herself through the creative arts. Her father is acclaimedsinger-songwriter Steve Tilston; stepmum the glorious London-Irish folk singer MaggieBoyle; her mum Naomi is a talented artist, while stepdad Frank is a theatre director.

These various creative influences combined. Martha heard folk luminaries such as Bert Jansch, Ralph McTell and John Renbourn playing in the kitchen with her dad, she learned traditional songs from Maggie Boyle; forming a rich background to Martha’s evolving love of folk music.

With a burgeoning solo career, Martha remains a free spirit, questioning withoutconfrontation, and finding a way to people’s hearts with her exquisite words and music.

Martha Tilston

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Suzanne Vega is a songwriter and singer of the rarest quality. There is a heart and anart of simplicity that runs quite distinctly throughout Suzanne’s songwriting and sheis rightly recognised as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation.

Born in California but brought up from an early age in New York City, the people andstreets of Manhattan have shaped Suzanne’s musical outlook deeply. She speaks ofNew York’s crowded, human intensity; yet also the privacy and solitude thataccompanies so many lives in the City.

Identified with the acoustic and folk music of urban America, Suzanne emerged as arecording artist during the mid-eighties, bringing songs often both intimate andobservational, both poignant and reflective. Her precise imagery and lyrical detailhave created a narrative voice that is absolutely individual.

With more than six million records sold worldwide, throughout her career Suzanne’sliterate and emotional intelligence have created a unique body of work and she is alsoa published author. The Passionate Eye, a collection of poems, lyrics, essays andjournalistic pieces, is published by Harper Collins.

It is a great honour to welcome Suzanne for her first appearance at Dartington duringher brief visit to this country.

Suzanne Vega: Voice and guitarGerry Leonard: Guitar

Suzanne Vega

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Glorious Chorus return to Home with a selection of music from their forthcoming OneWorld production. The choir is directed by award-winning composer Helen Yeomansand this new work of original songs and spoken word is inspired by Mayan prophesiesof evolutionary change and humanity.

Glorious Chorus

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Helen YeomansAdam GriffinBrad RichecoeurCatherine WilcoxCatherine McGeeColin MiddletonDaverick LeggettDiantha HarveyFaith BurchFelicity Scott

Frankie PhillipsHolly MacInnes-HurdInez AponteJo CurryJo LeyJodie WhiteKatrina CrowleyLiz CarterLouise ParkerLynne Paterson

Malcolm de MedweMiesje WaalewijnMike BrooksNeil HammacottNick PriceNirmal PremRachel ThameRachael ThomasSabine RademacherSarah GillmoreSusie Honnor

The Chorus

Today, here at Home, Julaba Kunda bring a second musical collaboration featuringJuldeh Camara. This exciting new partnership is between two traditional fiddlers withtheir roots three thousand miles apart.

Griselda Sanderson and Julaba Kunda explore the relationship between Juldeh’s WestAfrican ritti, the one-stringed fiddle of ancient design, and its European cousins, thebowed stringed instruments of the violin family and the Swedish nyckelharpa.

You can read more about Juldeh on page thirteen of your programme. His partner inJulaba Kunda, Griselda Sanderson, has violinists on both sides of her family goingback several generations. Both her father and maternal great aunt played in the BBCScottish Symphony Orchestra and she grew up in Clackmannanshire, where she pickedup traditional Scottish fiddle styles from around the country. She also plays thenyckelharpa, a Scandinavian bowed keyed fiddle.

Juldeh and Griselda’s musical meeting features fiddling traditions that range from theFulani people of west Africa to Scottish strathspeys and reels, as well as Swedishpolkas. They explore differences and similarities in their playing techniques andrepertoire and explain the social function of the music within their diverse musicalcultures. Both players combine older styles with more modern ones, demonstratinghow their playing still reflects the values inherent in the oral traditions of their people.

Julaba Kunda

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Adrian is a composer and teacher as well as a remarkable musician. His instrument isthe traditional Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute and Adrian spent seven years inJapan studying this ancient instrument.

The shakuhachi has a history stretching back over a thousand years. It has a uniquesound that cannot be imitated by any other instrument. When looked at, nothing couldseem more simple: a hollowed out bamboo stalk with just five holes; yet despite itssimple appearance it has a reputation as being one of the most difficult instruments tomaster, and is capable of producing a remarkably beautiful range of expressive tones.

Originating in a spiritual practice known as suizen (blowing zen), the shakuhachi evolvedas a meditation aid for the Komusô Japanese Zen monks of nothingness.

In the hands of a true artist, the sound of the shakuhachi comes from the edge ofsilence, crossing boundaries of time and culture to echo in the soul.

Adrian Freedman

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South West Music School is one of the Centres of Advanced Training supported by theDepartment for Education Music and Dance Scheme - nurturing exceptionally talentedyoung musicians aged between the ages of eight and eighteen.

The SWMS programme is inclusive, open to all, regardless of musical or personal background.The school is also musically inclusive – designed to identify and nurture exceptionalinstrumental and vocal talent from all areas of music and supporting high levels ofmusicianship and commitment. We are a virtual school, not based in one location butworking across the whole South West region. We offer a new learning experience, individually tailored to each student’s specific musical needs. Our students make music in their own planned time and we aim to enable them to participate as much as possiblein their own musical life. The key is for the students to determine their own programme of individual learning – and in response we can cultivate their ideas, potential and talent.

SWMS will be presenting two distinct strands of students’ work and talent during the day.

Down in Studio One, six of the School’s most talented drummers and percussionists will be working throughout the afternoon with Bristol artist Simon Preston, prior to aspecial performance in The Courtyard at 6.40pm. Currently running Southmead SoundSchool in Bristol, Simon is also Musical Director of Samba Galez, a forty-piece drumminggroup, as well as working as a music composer for theatre and film.

The Group: Nathan Bawden (Drums)Sam Fisher (Drums)Molly Lopresti-Richards (Marimba) Josh Rose (Drums)Jules Skinner (Percussion)Ben Watton (Drums)

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SWMS have also invited their most talented singers and songwriters to the festival andthe day’s programme within The Barn features:

Declan MillarDeclan has been writing songs since he started playing guitar aged eight. His songs arewritten with both a historical, traditional theme as well as modern day material withthemes on ecology and personal inspiration of a spiritual nature.

Sam Perry and Tom ShortSam and Tom have written and performed music since they were eleven. Sam plays theguitar and sings lead vocals. Tom plays keyboard and sings backing vocals.

Martin SkewsBorn in Cornwall and raised in a small village just outside Falmouth, Martin draws muchof his musical inspiration from the area in which he lives, its people and its places.

Ben and Alfie WeedonThis unusual duo of five-string violin and double bass create an original blend of musicand words. Brothers Ben and Alfie combine thought-provoking lyrics and a clear senseof theatre with classical instrumental skills and jazz, folk and world influences.

Josie NewtonJosie Newton is a law unto herself: she describes herself as ‘a work of art in progress,travelling on a ticket to a different world’. Her original songs have a maturity and stylethat draw inspiration from her muses, Nerina Pallot, Lifehouse and more recently LadyGaGa as well as a love of folk and pop rock.

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Perunika Trio WorkshopFollowing their acapella performance in The Great Hall, Perunika Trio will offer thechance to learn a few of the glorious harmonies and melodies of their Balkan repertoire.

Colombian Song WorkshopColombian guitarist Camilo Menjura brings an introduction to Colombian and Latin songs.He will get participants involved with harmony singing and rhythm accompaniments.

African Music WorkshopFor everyone, adults and children over ten, wanting to get their hands and voicesinvolved in an African Music themed workshop ... and maybe perform for an audience.Led by inspirational composer Andrew Dickson (musical director of PuppetCraft, who are creating a new show to be premiered here at Dartington in September).

Hugh Nankivell Family Singing WorkshopHugh writes many songs with and for young people and families. Songs aboutlifejackets, sleeping, snakes, geology... We’ll all be singing old songs, inventing newsongs, we’ll shake shakers and ring chimes, we’ll hear instruments from many corners of the world, we’ll laugh, play and have fun...

Painting with Natural Paints with Michelle LaneChildren will be able to make their own paints from clay, flower petals and fruits and then paint rock art style mandalas which will be bound to willow hoops.

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Workshops

Open Air Films

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Films

A Midsummer Night’s Dream [U]Friday 24 JuneDirector Max Reinhardt & William DieterleCast James Cagney, Dick Powell, Olivia deHavilland, Mickey Rooney. USA 1935 / 2hr13m

What could be more perfect for a midsummernight's screening in a magical garden thanthis wonderful movie? This 1935 productionremains perhaps the most memorable ofHollywood's Shakespeare adaptations. WithAcademy Award-winning photography and artdirection, the all-star cast is superb, bringingboth respect and glamour to Shakespeare'stimeless script.

Benda Bilili [PG]Saturday 25 JuneDirectors: Renaud Barret, Florent de la TullayeDocumentary 2010 / Colour / Subtitles / 1hr25m

This inspirational rags-to-riches rockumentaryfollows Staff Benda Bilili, a band of Kinshasastreet children and middle-aged wheelchairusers, who have coalesced over the pastdecade into one of central Africa's mosthighly-regarded musical outfits. With rumba-based songs ranging across the global spectrum,coupled with some gorgeous, richly texturedstreet-level photography by the directors, theresult is artful and utterly compelling.

Words and MusicWords and Music featuring Hannah Silva, Vengeance Tenfold and Hugh Nankivell.

Hannah Silva is a Plymouth-based writer, performer and vocal gymnast, described byThe Times as ‘one of the most ambitious and entertaining poets in the country’. Sheperforms her poetry internationally, has been featured on Radio 3’s The Verb and is aregular at the London Word Festival. Her current solo show, ‘Opposition’, can be seen atthe Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.

Earl Fontainelle a.k.a. Vengeance Tenfold lives on Dartmoor in Devon where he isworking on his PhD dissertation on the subject of silence in the poetics of Plotinus. He plays in the Amsterdam-based Cajun deathcountry band Earl Fontainelle and thePearl of Great Price and has worked in many other musical and lyrical projects,including a long-term collaborative relationship with Shackleton; most recently theyworked together on a live performance alongside the Tom Dale Dance Companyinvolving spoken word, live electronic music, a Siberian Jew’s harp, and a lantern.

Hugh Nankivell writes songs obsessively with anyone and everyone about everythingand nothing. In the past year he has written songs about ceramics from Denmark andthe Lake District, the change of a high school from specialist to academy status, a song-cycle to commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of the end of the miner’s strike (with lyrics by Ian McMillan) and a series of settings of poems about birds by PeterOswald, as well as hundreds of songs about waking up, green tea, beer with children and families in schools and at festivals.

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Family Programme

For this activity you need to keep very still and be especially quiet. Stand in a circle and close your eyes for one minute.

Listen to the sounds of nature. When the time is up, see who has heard what.

How many different sounds did you hear?

Can you make a list of which animals you think you heard?

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Home - the word:Old English häm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heem and German Heim

Home Town: In ChinaIn Chinese culture and society, a hometown or ancestral home is the place of origin ofone’s extended family. It may or may not be the place where one is born. For instance,Physics Nobel Prize winner Tsung-Dao Lee was born in Shanghai, China, but hishometown is listed as Suzhou.

Home Town: in America - there are five:* Hometown, Illinois* Hometown, Pennsylvania* Hometown, West Virginia* Hometown, Missouri* Hometown, San Ramon, California

Home Sweet Home: The phrase Home Sweet Home was first used by the American author and playrightJohn Howard Payne, who used it as a song title in the melodrama The Maid of Milan.

’Amid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.’

House and Home:King Henry IV, Part II“He hath eaten me out of house and home”. - (Act II, Scene I).

HestiaIn Greek mythology, Hestia was the first daughter of Cronus and Rhea (Ancient Greek

, “hearth” or “fireside”) and she was the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and of the right ordering of domesticity and the family.

At every sacrifice in the household she would receive the first offering. In the publicdomain, the hearth of the prytaneum functioned as her official sanctuary.

With the establishment of each new Greek colony, flame from Hestia’s public hearthin the mother city would be carried to the new settlement. She sat on a plain woodenthrone with a white woolen cushion and did not trouble to choose an emblem forherself.

Funny old world, eh?!

A Page of Miscellany

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Dartington’s medieval Great Hall has a fantastic acoustic - that’s why we havedecided that all performances in the Great Hall will be totally and utterlyunplugged. Music in its purely acoustic form.

But for the day to work we need your help. It goes without saying that whenyou are in the Great Hall listening to a performance, please ensure that yourmobile phone is turned off, please resist the urge to whisper ‘wow isn't this great’to your neighbour - essentially, please avoid making all unnecessary noise!

Stewards will be letting people in to the hall between numbers. Of course youwill be free to leave during the set but we’d really appreciate it if you could dothis sensitively between numbers.

Many thanks to all the HOME volunteers who have made the delivery of this Festival possible

The Festival TeamDavid Francis: Director of ArtsMatthew Linley: Event ProducerVictoria Whelan: Assistant ProducerKatrina Hurford: CommunicationsBecky Pratchett: CommunicationsElke Weiler: Event CoordinatorDrum: Artistic DirectorThomas Brooman: Artistic DirectorNinian Harding: Technical ManagerJane Brace: PublicistDanielle Rose: Live Art ProducerLisa Tregale: South West Music School DirectorSarah Lawrence: Volunteer CoordinatorUlysses Alvarez: Volunteer CoordinatorSam Macaulay: Senior Event Manager

Programme Design and Production Design: Carey at Scarlet DesignLogo and Graphic: Believe InMaps painted by: James StewartText and Editor: Thomas BroomanPrinted by: Bishops Printers

For more information about Dartington see our web site at www.dartington.org

Festival Information

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site map (lower close area: Friday’s performances)

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Studio 6

Studio 3

Studio 1

site map (courtyard area)

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Great Hall

The Ship

UpperGatehouse

The BarnWhite Hart Bar

Outdoor Stage

For tickets and full infowww.dartington.org/homeThe Dartington Hall Trust is registered as a charity

Suzanne VegaTamikrestAlejandro Toledo & the Magic TombolinosSheema MukherjeeJustin Adams & Juldeh CamaraPerunika TrioJulaba KundaSeckou KeitaMartha TilstonSWMS Home Grown StageGlorious ChorusZingaSitar Funk EnsembleDesert CrossingsMax Pashm (DJ set)