ALAN BEARMAN MUSIC

Lankum (Lynched) are a four-piece traditional folk group from Dublin, Ireland, who combine distinctive four-part vocal harmonies with arrangements of uilleann pipes, concertina, Russian accordion, fiddle and guitar. Their repertoire spans humorous Dublin music-hall ditties and street-songs, classic ballads from the Traveller tradition, traditional Irish and American dance tunes, and their own original material.

The release of their album Cold Old Fire and a subsequent appearance on the BBC’s Later… with Jools Holland cemented their reputation as a band that successfully crosses genres. They launched their hugely anticipated new album Between the Earth and Sky on 27th October 2017 on prestigious Rough Trade Records.

Neil Sedaka and Howie Greenfield will go down in musical history as one of the most successful partnerships of all time, with hits such as Calendar Girl and Oh! Carol.

Merry Opera, regular favourites at Chipping Norton with fresh, energetic and musically respectful opera productions, return with this classic favourite.

This course will introduce you to the origin and evolution of Field Recording as a sonic practice. You will receive advice on the use and variety of equipment; to include digital sound recorders, microphones and windshields.

This 5-day summer course will cover location scouting, basic sound editing, and uploading a project to a sound site, for instance a soundmap.

On completion of the course, you will have produced a field recording portfolio, totalling five minutes that you can upload to the sound site of your choice.

Refuge of the Roads: Re-imagining Joni Mitchell’s Hejira

To mark the 40th anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s seminal album Hejira, Sorana Santos recreated the 4200-mile round-trip from Portland, Maine, to LA, on which Hejira was written.

“I couldn’t sing the songs authentically”, says Sorana, “and realised the only way into the album was to do the trip, solo, like she did.”

Alongside presenting her eclectic and soulful reinterpretation of Hejira, Sorana also performs original songs from her own ‘Hejira’ written on this journey, played with some of the cream of the young British jazz scene.

With a personal invite from Billy Bragg to play Glastonbury, sessions on 6 Music and Radio 2, and five star reviews in The Guardian, the songwriting, voice and piano partnership of Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow is regarded as “One of British folk music’s mightiest combinations” (MOJO).

O’Hooley and Tidow’s originality and skill invites comparison with the most celebrated harmony duos, from early Simon and Garfunkel to the iconic Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Their set explores, considers and connects subjects and stories in a distinctive, inventive and memorable way: from an emotionally charged song about an elephant orphanage in Nairobi, to a joyous celebration of the Leeds cycling champion Beryl Burton.

Singer and harpist Rachel Newton specialises in interpreting traditional folk songs
in both English and Scottish Gaelic as well as writing and performing her own
instrumental pieces. In 2017, she was awarded Musician of the Year at the BBC
Radio 2 Folk Awards.

A skilled collaborator, Rachel is a founder member of the successful UK folk bands
The Shee and The Furrow Collective. She also plays fiddle and viola and works
across a range of performance platforms including theatre and storytelling.

CARU | Arts re Search Annual Conference 2017

"What does it mean to research art / to research through art?"

Date: Sunday, 10th December 2017
Time: 11am - 6pm (Registration starts at 10.15am)
Location: Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre; Gipsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. OX3 0BP

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Kerstin Mey
PVC and Dean, Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster

CARU brings together artists and researchers for yet another day of cross-disciplinary exploration into arts research! The event will consist of an exciting mixture of talks and performances from a variety of creative and academic disciplines, including Fine Art, Live Art, Social Practice, Art History, Anthropology, Education, Science and Technology, to question and debate various areas of arts research, such as themes, material/form, documentation and practice methodology.

Keynote talk: 'Resonances and Discords'
The presentation will explore research in art at the interface to other epistemological systems and approaches. Drawing on case studies, it will explore key strategies and tactical manoeuvres of knowledge making in order to explore the hermeneutics of practice led inquiry in the space of art.

Presentations include:

"The artist in the boardroom: Action research within decision-making spaces"

"Exploring the Art space as fluid cultural site through the immediacy of the performance and its inherent collaborative ethos"

"Chapter 1 (draft): Using text in performance: a range of strategies"

"Memory and identity within Bosnia’s Mass Graves"

"Fermenting conversations"

"Arcade Interface Art Research"

"Making sounds happen is more important than careful listening (with cups)"

"Shadow:Other:myself / photographic research from 2010"

"Un-knowing unknowing in painting as research"

"Developing an artistic epistemology"

Delegate/Attendance fees: £20 (Students £15) - includes lunch & refreshments

Register at: ars2017.eventbrite.co.uk