Tickets on sale now!
Tickets on sale now for the Spirit of Place Festival - seven Sunday afternoon soirees from June to November. We'll be looking after your health and well-being with restricted numbers so book soon via eventbrite - just £10 + booking fee, supporting the local arts and music community.
Sunday August 8th Martin NewellPoetry and song from legendary Martin Newell plus special guest Polly Haynes providing an eclectic and entertaining afternoon of music and stories from East Anglia and beyond.
Polly Haynes
Jazz-esc inspired songstress, with themes of political and social justice, love and loss and everything in-between ...
Oliver Catford
Oliver Catford is a skilled, local, close-up magician who has been practicing and performing magic for the last 10 years. An exciting 20 minutes of magic in store on Sunday afternoon!
Sunday September 5 - Spirit of the Moon
Keeping the mind healthy, celebrating the Harvest Moon with Mindfulness from Martin Wilks, A special music 'in the round' from Oktoba, Phil Jackson and Charlie Law plus Mothership Voyage.
Sunday October 3 - Spirit of Beowulf
The link between Suffolk and Britain's oldest poem with leading authority Dr. Sam Newton. We revisit the music, poetry, projections and art from the Beowulf Festivals 2018-2020 and Sutton Hoo, with invited musical guests and artist in residence, Susie Hammond at the Bull Inn, Woodbridge.
Sunday November 7 - Spirit of the Rose
Woodbridge's link to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald as told by Charles Mugleston. A special Persian Tea & Cake is included with live music and poetry for a perfect Sunday afternoon soiree. The artwork of local artist Nick Nicolson plus the Glass Thistles from Farlingaye School and Jan Pulsford's 'A letter from Woodbridge' - providing another fascinating link to the Spirit of Woodbridge.
Martin Newell
Martin Newell is an English singer-songwriter, poet, columnist and author who leads the Cleaners from Venus, a guitar pop band with jangly, upbeat arrangements. He is regarded as a significant figure in the history of cassette culture and DIY music.
Polly Haynes
Jazz-esc inspired songstress, with themes of political and social justice, love and loss and everything in-between. Thought provoking songs -
Oliver Catford
Oliver Catford is a skilled, local, close-up magician who has been practicing and performing magic for the last 10 years. An exciting 20 minutes of magic in store on Sunday afternoon!
Oktoba
Oktoba is the project of Brighton based alt folk singer songwriter, Chris Athorne. Captivating, emotive and honest can be the words to describe his music and story telling. His songs 'Chance' and ‘It must be love’ were recently used on the soundtrack of Love Island.
Misery Gutz
Misery Gutz (or Charlie Law as his Mum still calls him), is a singer-songwriter from Suffolk who sings songs that he’d like to listen to when he’s in a bad mood. He writes music inspired by alt-rock influences from across the pond like Wilco and Phoebe Bridgers whilst drawing influence from British 60s/70s folk acts like Nick Drake and John Martyn.
Phil Jackson
Singer / Songwriter extraordinaire and Rutles Keyboardist. Phil has written and produced songs since the age of 12, experimenting in different genres whilst writing in streams of consciousness. Phil is also a video artist and a published author, with his tales of touring, in 'Socks On (Life As A Rutle)' Phil also makes radio shows for Radio Mothership.
Sam Newton
Author of The Origins of Beowulf and The Reckoning of King Rædwald: The Story of the King linked to the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial. He has lectured widely around the country and has contributed much to television and radio. He is a Director of the study-centre at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and a Time Team historian.
Spirit of the Rose
Sunday November 7 - Spirit of the Rose - Edward FitzGerald & the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Woodbridge's link to the most famous poem as told by EFG expert Charles Mugleston. A special Persian Tea & Cake is included with live music and poetry for a perfect Sunday afternoon soiree with the artwork of Nick Nicolson plus the Glass Thistles from Farlingaye School. Another fascinating link to the Spirit of Woodbridge.
Mothership Studios
Radio Mothership is pleased to be sponsoring these events and showing videos and performances from members of the Mothership Collective.
JaN PuLSFoRD
A long time electronic Composer, Virtual Performance Artist, SongWriter and Producer. In the 80s - 90s she toured as keyboard player with the Thompson Twins and Cyndi Lauper with whom she wrote three critically acclaimed albums. After running her own production company and studio in the USA she moved back to Suffolk where she enjoys being inspired by the River Deben and the creative community. She co-produced the ‘Spirit of Beowulf Festival’ where her music and projections lit up the historic Woodbridge Tide Mill and runs Mothership Studios as a virtual eclectic music collective and community radio stream. In between digital art and admin, she continues writing and producing music for independent projects. This year she is delighted to be producing the Spirit of Place Festival.
Aartwork 27th June
Aartwork are a psychedelic celtic folk fusion group playing original songs inspired by the Suffolk coast and their adventures with a boat stage. With a new post-lockdown line-up, Aartwork have added to their electronic effects and beats to evolve their unique style.
EllY Tree - 27th June
“Quirky, intelligent and irresistable folk songs, performed with a driving ukelele and a voice that seems to summon up the gods.” “Sublime bass playing, beautiful songs, lovely singing, fab uke playing ..This is wierdly wonky punk folk.”
EllY Tree are Helen Woodbridge: singer/songwriter/baritone ukulele and banjo; Andy Heasman: bass guitar/backing vocals/keyboards (and sometimes Merlyn)
Claudia Myatt
Art and music, sailing around the world and life on the river. Claudia will be showing and chatting about her artwork and playing harp too - 'meet the artist' on June 27th & July 4th
Peter Hepworth
performing a unique and colourful collection
of daydream excursions, spontaneous adventures, reflections of river life and the unsung encounters of an authentic troubadour existence.
Julia Jones
'Then momentum slowed; the sails sagged; the bereaved vessel continued floating up the pretty river as though she were a log [...] Skye went below and sat with Great Aunt Ellen as her body stiffened and her boat drifted onwards into the evening light.'This is from Ghosting Home. It's a piece of fiction but its truth comes from all those golden evenings that I've taken the last of the tide up river in Peter Duck and that final puff of wind has died away. If it were not for the river I would not exist. For this event I will choose and read some of the moments when it has found its way into my stories.Julia Jones
Petra Garrard & Mark Jolley
Petra is a singer songwriter and has been performing her sensitive, original songs to audiences in East Anglia for over a decade. As a duo Mark plays violin, guitar/bass, Petra plays guitar and main vocals, singing songs of life, love and everything in between.
Stephen William Hodd
Stephen William Hodd is an artist with intense commitment to fearlessly mining the tunnels of the self using musical connection as the tool for revelation through the gritted restraint of a wide ranging voice, all deftly guided by a fingerpicking dexterity, loops and sonic explosions! He releases music on his own label Savage Acoustic Records in order to maintain his fiercely guarded desire for independent creative freedom.
https://stephenwilliamhodd.com
girl in a gale
'My musical approach is like a photographer going out for the 7am golden hour: clouds with early sun filtering through, momentarily giving extraordinary colours to the trees and river. In my music I seek fleeting moments of harmony and rhythm: composing, conducting, performing, mixing and recording at the same time, as a solo artist.'
- girl in a gale
Tom Rogerson
We are so looking forward to Tom's piano playing at the Spirit of Place Festival - A Sunday celebration of all things ambient.
Tom Rogerson is a pianist and composer from Suffolk, and founder of experimental rock band Three Trapped Tigers. His most recent album, Finding Shore, in collaboration with Brian Eno, was released in 2018, and his debut solo album will be released later in 2021.
Nick Nicholson
The Mothership Collective will be featuring artists from the popular Radio Mothership Eclectic Sunday series including
Nick Nicholson from the progressive house pioneers Doi-oing ‘The least commercial name ever, though John Peel liked it 😂😂” Nick will be playing a combination of electronica with guitar and vocals, showcasing new material with influences ranging from folk through gothic psychedelia and progressive dance. He is also an amazing painter . . .
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We look forward to seeing you in 2021.
The venue for the first five events has been changed to the Angel, Theatre St.Woodbridge.
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A big thanks to the Spirit of Place sponsors for supporting this series of community events and keeping the arts alive in 2021. If you would like to sponsor an event please contact us.
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