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TICKETS £10 INCLUDING TEA
CHILDREN 11 AND UNDER HALF PRICE
2025 VILLAGES MUSIC FESTIVAL DATES 28TH JUNE-6TH JULY, COMMENCING WITH A PERFORMANCE OF PUCCINI’S ‘LA BOHEME’.
Saturday 8th July
St Bartholomew's Church, Chalvington
IAN KING

A folk artist and music composer from Yorkshire recently returned to live in the UK after 10 years living in Tuscany building dry stone walls and tending olive groves.
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In this setting, and in the wake of a forest fire that ravaged his homestead, he composed and recorded a self produced album called ‘inebriate of air’ during the covid lockdown.
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This was a body of work that was born out of his new found interest of composing songs and soundscapes to poetry, rather than his normal practice of singer-songwriter come arranger of trad folk songs.
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His appreciation of Emily Dickinson poetry in particular and her ability to animate the very essence of nature, life and death made for a fascinating musical adventure.
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Instead of returning to his home town in Yorkshire, he decided to settle in Sussex where he now lives.
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This summer he will perform some of the pieces from ‘inebriate of air’ as well as his other material at Chalvington Church on 8th July 2023