CW13 WELCOMES Give Me Wings

 

 

The ‘Give me Wings’ Arts Council of Wales project, run through Arts Care Gofal Celf, is a year long project designed for women and children. Pre-school children and babies are offered a professional crèche with the Little Cherubs crèche, while Mums and women can take part in subsidised workshops in dance, music, creative writing and visual art.

I'm very pleased to announce that Zosia Jo from Arts Care Gofal Celf

has confirmed course leader Guinevere Clark

will be bringing Give Me Wings to

Celtic Womenfest 2013 on Sunday 25th August

 

We look forward to your performance

& maybe some people would like to join in!

 

CW13 Welcomes Inkie Pocious

Celtic Womenfest is chuffed to bits to welcome Inkie Pocious who will kindly spend all weekend at our Arts Table running

 'Colour your own Inkie'

for children & adults who love to colour in!

Young, up & coming artist Inkie will take us to her Magical Island and share her wonderful characters & stories through her art ... & we'll all have a chance to colour in our own Inkie.

 

Currently sponsored by the Prince's Trust to bring to us her fabulous new designer jewellery, one day, you will tell everyone that you heard about Inkie first at CW13!!!

 

 

HOW MUCH IS IT TO GET INTO CELTIC WOMENFEST?

Picture: Singing with Sam Collins @ CW12

Entry to Celtic Womenfest is completely FREE!!!

However, you will need to pay the normal daily entrance fee of The National Botanic Garden of Wales.

Adults £8.50

OAP's £7.00

Children Aged 5 - 16 years £4.50

Children under 5 years of age are FREE

 

A Family ticket is £21.00

Or become a member of the Garden for as little as £36.00 for the year and visit as many times as you like!

PLUS
Anyone buying a ticket to the Garden between now and the end of September will be allowed back in FREE of charge for seven days after their visit – and as many times as they like

Full details at http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/

Who is performing at CW13: Monday's Line Up!

CELTIC WOMENFEST 2013

 

CW13 Running Order

Monday 26th August

 

 Hosted by Festival Founder & Creative Director

Cheryl Beer

 

 

Kindly supported by

The National Botanic Garden of Wales

 

 

 

 

Our second day opens at 1.00pm

with Cardiff based Spoken Word Poet Misty Lee (awaiting foto)

 

 

 

 

1.10pm Lowri Evans

  We welcome bi-lingual singer songwriter

'a major talent in any language'

 

 

 

1.40pm Isobel Eleanor Sinead Stevenson

Beautiful Unaccompanied Singing

 

 

 

 

 

1.50pm Clarsach Society Wales Ensemble
 

 

 

 

Led by Susan Berry, Clarsach Society Wales Ensemble will  kindly be set up in Oriel Gallery facilitating Drop-in HARP workshops.
 

At 1.50pm some of the Harp Ensemble will come over to the main tent & share their beautiful music with us, on our most traditional instrument.

 

2.05pm: Lucy May Constantini

 

 

CW13 is very pleased to welcome established dancer & choreographer

performing her newly created piece

Rituals of Faith & Imagination

 

 

2.30pm

Welcome Back Festival Patron

 

AMY WADGE

 

 

 

Amy has been busy this year after her wonderful writing collaboration with Ed Sheeran, she hasn't stopped, (& neither has he!). Amy has gone on to recently song writing with Geri Halliwell,

who sang our Amy's praises in her blog.

 

 

 

Founder & Creative Director of CW13,

Cheryl Beer, is particularly excited

to welcome Amy back.

 

Whilst  a student at Welsh College of Music & Drama, Amy performed her first solo gig as a singer songwriter  at Cheryl's first Women's Voices event at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, more years ago than either of them care to remember! lol!

 

 

 

'Amy has become an amazing performer: one of the best. I think her journey is an inspiration for everyone at the festival. We are primarily a platform for Welsh based women performers & Amy's award winning success, as well as her ability to personally capture the audience

  is a shining light.

 

She has a young family & manages to combine being a mother with being a remarkably warm, gifted singer/songwriter/musician.

 

Thank you Amy for continuing to support

Celtic Womenfest.

After her overwhelmingly moving set last year,

we simply can not wait to have her back!'

 

 

 

3.20pm: Pat Smith

 

Multi instrumentalist, Pat is renowned for her spoon playing in almost every folk festival you can think of! We are so chuffed she is coming to CW13 this year to show us how it's done!

Spoons provided!

 

 

 3.35pm: Anne Lister

 

 

We are so excited to welcome back Anne after a fabulous response to her wonderful songs at last year's festival.
 

4.00pm Storytelling with Amanda Rackstraw


4.10pm
Sarah Passmore & Friends

 Sarah Passmore

Jemma Krysa

 

Sarah has been a festival volunteer for over a year now. She and her mother Dawn, help out behind the scenes over the weekend, and Sarah helps out with admin where she can. This year, I have asked her to take the stage for an hour, bringing back for us the amazing voice that is Jemma Krysa, as her guest.

5.10pm

End Poem
Our festival friend Bríd Wyldearth is unable to close the festival for us this year, but she has kindly agreed for me to read one of her poems Slow Dance which recently appeared on BBC 3's Britain in a Day and is one of my favourite poems, especially when Bríd performs it! I will do my best to share it with you as we close the festival for another year.

We will be hanging our lovely hands held across festivals banner, our 'Goddess' made by Carol Lovekin for Women in Tune Festival and kindly lent to us again this year. Thanks Carol.

And don't forget that our Knitting Rhythms Table will be open again today, or sew Blodeuwedd's Flower Cloak with Sam Collins

 

 

And have a look at our knitting installation in the tree outside the gallery from

Welsh Wooly Women

 

 

 

WHO IS PERFORMING AT CELTIC WOMENFEST? Sunday's Line up ...

So here it is folks!!

Our Running Order ...

HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!

(correct at time of press & undoubtedly, subject to change!)

 

 

SUNDAY 25TH AUGUST

Hosted by Festival Founder
& Creative Director
CHERYL BEER

 

Kindly delivered in partnership with
The National Botanic Garden of Wales

 

 

 

Event Opens at 1.00pm

 

on Sunday 25th August in The Marquee with

Ruth Ferris Price: Deputy Mayor

 

 

followed by an opening poem from young up and coming spoken word poet, Sian Walker

 

 

 

At 1.10pm: Danielle Lewis

from New Quay will be performing for us,

including tracks from her newly released EP

Paper Hearts

 

 

 

 

At 1.30pm: Maj Ikle

Newly published writer will be performing

spoken word poetry

 

 

 

 

At 1.40pm: Lorraine King

wonderful established singer/songwriter eludes sunshine songs that make you smile

 

 

 

 

 

At 2.00pm: Sarah Bridgeman

Swansea based Comedienne, semi finalist at

The Glee Club Newcomer Comedy Awards 

with a fast growing fan base ...

a name to watch out for!

 

 

 

 

 

At 2.15pm

HORSE

 

We are so excited to welcome our extra special guest, this established and gifted Award Winning singer/songwriter from Scotland

She has a wide following in the UK and worldwide having toured with Tina Turner and secured several  record chart in  Europe.

 

She is noted mainly for her rich, sonorous voice, and  The Scotsmen referred to her as "one of Scotland's all-time great vocalists, also possessed of a keen song writing intelligence".

 

 

 

 

 

 

At 3.00pm: Mab Jones

We welcome back the amazing Award Winning Spoken Word Poet who was our Poet in residence last year at NBGW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At 3.30pm: Polly Patsy Tammy Pardon!

 

Hold onto your cowboy hats!

 

Polly Patsy Tammy Pardon

is a composite Country and West Wales Singer.

With delusions of being related to the Country Divas but originally from the U.S. of K

she likes to spread sparkle, glitter and cleaning products wherever she goes.

 

 

Try as hard as she might, her music inspires WRITS not HITS, as she parodies some of country music's best known classics with Ninety Five, Doreen and I Will Always Hate You, and S.O.L.I.C.I.T.O.R. her own songs such as Lift Me Up Doctor Darling Please, Overweight But Over You and Bo The Dog have had audiences choke on their false teeth for all the wrong reasons. 

 

 

 

At 4.00pm: Wolfsong

Unaccompanied singing from the 2 women who usually front the band Fountainhead and have formed especially for the festival.

 

 

 

 

4.15pm: Grainne Hunt

We're so blown away that this amazing singer is coming over from Dublin to share her beautiful voice and guitar with us

 

 

 

 

4.45pm: Rachel Aukland

Story telling poet and a festival regular

 

 

 

 

4.55pm: Avril Yospa

Local singer/songwriter

 creates a musical vibe to move to ...

 

 

 

 

 

5.10pm: Sam Collins TBC

Song share with Sam Collins

 

 

 

 

5.20pm: Alison Lenihan 

will be performing a monologue written by comedienne Sarah Bridgeman

 

 

 

 

5.30pm : TARAN tbc

 

CW13 welcomes back the wonderful rhythms of a percussion band led by Patti Mc Kenna

 

 

 

 

5.45pm Closing the day with

Give Me Wings

 

 

A multi arts community project who will be sharing their dance with us.

 

 

 

I'M SURE YOU'LL AGREE, WHAT AN AMAZING LINE UP !!

 

Don't forget we will also have our

Colouring in table for the children,

as well as our Knitting Rhythms table

making blankets for young mums led by volunteers from Shelbyart.

 

A Yarn bomb installation of flowers in the tree outside the Gallery by Welsh Woolly Women & Sewing Blodeuwedd's Cloak with Sam Collins.

 

 

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR

 

MONDAY 26TH'S RUNNING ORDER

 

COMING SOON

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks a million

Thank you Suzanne Hughes Owen for very kindly offering to pick up Grainne Hunt from Pembroke for her stay here and making it possible for us to welcome an Irish guest to our festival ...

Irish Guest at CW13 Grainne Hunt

I am so pleased to tell ya that we have managed to arrange for the wonderful Grainne Hunt to come and perform for us at Celtic Womenfest!

I met her at the Gealach Gorm Festival organised by Anthony & Angela Mulcahy, near Waterford. Grainne was backing vocalist with the amazing Mark Geary and her voice is likely one of the most beautiful I think I have ever heard!

She has very kindly pulled out all the stops to come and join us on Sunday 25th August as part of our 2 day festival.

Suzanne Hughes Owen has very kindly offered to look after Grainne while she is here, putting her up in Llandysul ...

All we need now is for another kind person to offer TRANSPORT and pick up Grainne & her accompanist from Pembroke dock.

If you think you can help us with this, please email Creative Director of the Festival
Cheryl Beer: cherylbeermusic@gmail.com


Diolch yn fawr

Sian James at The Celtic Women Concert Series

Many thanks to Sian James for her beautiful and stunning performance as part of out Celtic Women Concert Series in March finishing our second year of Winter concerts. 

 

I'm so excited to tell you that she has very knidly agreed to come back to Celtic Womenfest 2013

Knitting Rhythms

 

Since finding out we wouldn't have a workshop space at the festival, I've been thinking about quiet workshops that can take place at the back of the music tent. We don't have a budget for any materials, we don't have workshop space, but I figured that if I put a shoutout on facebook the universe may well sort the rest out!

 

 

 

Petra Wood very kindly volunteered to be a collection point for wool & knitting or crochet needle donations at her work base, Aardvark's Wholefoods in 6 Llamas Street, Carmarthen:

 

 

Petra is a Homeopath running her own practice in Carmarthen. If you'd like to see her website, here is a link www.carmarthenhomeopath.co.uk

 

 

 

 

Thanks Petra.

 

Than Sarah Passmore contacted me to ask if she could help. She is now chasing everyone's ideas regarding materials sponsorship. She has emailed local and national businesses. In exchange for their wool and needles we will put their logo on our flier and write about them here on the blog ... so fingers crossed! Sarah will give us an update at the end of next week as to how it's going.

 

 

 

 

Thanks Sarah

 

 

 

 

Then I put a shout out to find people who would be prepared to oversee the Knitting Rhythms table at the 2 day festival: knitters and sewers who can support and give advice ... 

get other knitters started.

 

One of the people to respond was

Deputy Mayoress of Llanelli,

Ruth Ferris- Price who put me in touch with

Michelle Williams.

 

Michelle runs a business Shelbyart which aims to give: Creative Mentoring used for Personal Improvement with a holistic and inclusive approach. Mentoring through creativity  .

 

The website address is www.shelbyartmycreativelife.com

 

 

 

 

Michelle contacted me and kindly offered to organise 3 women from her groups who would come in to represent Shelbyart and share with leading the Knitting Rhythms table.

 

Thanks Michelle

 

 

 

So then I put a shout out for ideas from people as to what we would do with the knitted pieces.

 

There were lots of suggestions but we wanted it to be something intergenerational, giving, useful, woman focussed ....

 

So we have gone for the fabulous suggestion by Maj Ikle to do Baby Blankets.

 

This will be good for the starters and less experienced knitters who can knit squares that more experienced seastresses will sew together.

 

 

Thanks Maj

 

 

CW13 Baby Blankets will be donated to

The Young Mums Projects in South Wales.

 

 

CW13: Keeping our children warm

For the more experienced knitters, we will be looking at contributing to Age UK with the Innocent Smoothie Campaign THE BIG KNIT

 

 

 

 For the past nine years Big Knit supporters have knitted millions of little woolly hats for Innocent smoothies, with money from every bottle sold going towards supporting older people during the chilly winter months.

Since they started they've raised over £1 million.
             25p from every hatted bottle sold goes straight to Age UK to help older people keep warm and well for winter.

 

So stretch out those fingers, get your needles out and untangle that wool.
It's time to get your knit on.

 

 

We will also make flowers at the table, knitted, crochet'd or sewn. This will be led for us by the lovely Sam Collins who has been 'growing'

 Blodeuwedd's Cloak for us since The Story Telling Event last February, then at CW12.

 

The cloak will come to this year's Story Event in April and then through to CW13 in August ...

 

it will then carry forward to next year's events ... this way a little bit of each event is carried forward into the next ...

Thanks Sam

 

 

Thanks a million to all the people who have contacted me this week to offer to help by donating materials, to those who are excited about knitting at the festival, and those who are giving of their time to help me organise it.

 

I'm quite taken aback about how excited people are about knitting! I had no idea! Maybe we should have a knitting festival next year!!

Now, that's an idea!!

 

Meanwhile, there are other knitting events happening in Carmarthenshire. Thought I'd mention here that Lynda Lumb is organising a 'Knit Against Nuclear Weapons' Event on 31st July, This is the facebook link to the Event page if you would like more details:

 

 http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/174087252740489/?fref=ts

 

And here is Lynda's email address: lynda.lumb@facebook.com