22-545: There has been a folk festival in the coastal town of Sidmouth in South West England in the first week of August every year since 1955, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to over 700 diverse events. Sidmouth Folk Festival offers a wide range of activities including major folk concerts, pub sessions , workshops and master classes , social dances and dance displays, family entertainment and many children's musical and craft activities. The Late Night Extra feature
44-620: A co-producer. In December 2007 the album Ringing The Changes was issued. It is a collection of songs written by the band. In 2008 Maddy Prior appeared at the BBC's "Electric Proms". Steeleye Span toured the Eastern US, Australia and the UK beginning in 2009. With Giles Lewin and Hannah James, Prior completed two successful UK tours, in the spring and autumn of 2012, with a third, in autumn 2013. In November and December 2013 Prior toured with Steeleye Span , on
66-687: A one-shot character "Maddy Pryor" in Avengers Annual #10 (1981). Maddy Prior took to the road with The Carnival Band in May 2007 for their "Music for Tavern and Chapel" tour. They celebrated the 300th anniversary of one of the key influences on their work, Charles Wesley . She made a guest appearance with The Levellers at the Solfest Festival in Cumbria in August 2007. On recent albums Troy Donockley has been
88-476: A partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods. Handicrafting has long been exhibited at such events and festival-like gatherings, as it has its roots in the rural crafts . Like folk art, handicraft output often has cultural, political, and/or religious significance. Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople . In contrast to fine art , folk art
110-440: A programme of dance displays with many morris, sword and other traditional dance teams performing throughout the week. Side invited to the 2022 festival included Boss Morris, Campden Morris Dancers, First Class Stamp, Fool’s Gambit Morris, Lancashire Wallopers, Leominster Morris, Mortimer’s Morris, Newcastle Kingsmen, Rumworth Morris, Seven Champions Molly Dancers, Sheffield Steel Rapper and Sidmouth Mummers. The sides performed in
132-652: A range of Dance Spectaculars in Connaught Gardens and the Blackmore Gardens Marquee, and also around the town centre and on the Esplanade. Schofield, Derek (2004) The First Week In August - Fifty Years Of The Sidmouth Festival. Sidmouth International Festival Ltd. ISBN 0-9547502-0-9 Folk festival A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music . This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only
154-857: A regular BBC 4 programme Electric Folk — prog-rock and traditional songs, including session work on Mike Oldfield 's Incantations . She left Steeleye Span in 1997 but returned in 2002. The 1999 album The Journey was recorded in 1995, when Maddy was still in the band, but not released until four years later. She was also one half of the duo Silly Sisters , which helped to boost June Tabor 's career. Since 2003 Prior has run and hosted an Arts Centre called Stones Barn in Cumbria . Working with fellow singers and performers like Abbie Lathe and daughter Rose Kemp, Prior has offered residential courses focusing on singing, meditation, cookery and performance. Other events, hosted by other teachers, include classical Indian dances, painting and drumming. Prior campaigns on behalf of
176-735: A solo artist, with these bands and in several collaborations. She runs an Arts Centre called Stones Barn, in Bewcastle , in Cumbria, which offers residential courses. Born in Blackpool , Prior moved in her teens to St Albans , where she befriended the young Donovan Leitch and Mac MacLeod in The Cock pub. She later formed a duo with MacLeod called 'Mac & Maddy'. She became a roadie for visiting American musicians, including Reverend Gary Davis . They gave her useful advice about singing English folk songs instead of American songs. Her father, Allan Prior ,
198-525: Is also run at Bulverton on the edge of Sidmouth next to the main campsite. The festival patron is Martin Carthy . Sidmouth Festival was founded as a folk dance festival in 1955 by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), but gradually expanded to cover ceilidh dancing, music and song, as well as related folk crafts. Over time, the scope also broadened to include performers from abroad, and
220-505: Is an English folk rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span . She was born in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior , was co-creator of the police drama Z-Cars . She was married to Steeleye bass guitarist Rick Kemp , and their daughter, Rose Kemp , is also a singer. Their son, Alex Kemp, is also a guitarist and has deputised for his father playing bass guitar for Steeleye Span. She
242-593: Is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic, and is often sold at festivals by tradespeople or practicing amateurs. As at folk festivals, such art and handicraft may also appear at historical reenactments and events such as Renaissance fairs . Misty Waters Music Festival Stara planina fest Balkan folk Festival-Mediaval XIV, "Folk of the World" Kerasovo Festival, Ioannina Fox Valley Folk Music And Storytelling Festival Maddy Prior Madeleine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947)
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#1732891645428264-657: The Wintersmith Tour, following the release in October of their album Wintersmith , a collaborative project based on the novel of the same name by Terry Pratchett . A short tour with The Carnival Band in November and December, featuring carols and seasonal music, has become a regular fixture for Prior in recent years. In 2001 Maddy Prior was awarded the MBE for services to folk music. In 2014 she received an Honorary Fellowship from
286-626: The backbone of the group until the early 1980s when ill-health forced Hart into semi-retirement. Prior plays the tambourine , spoons and ukulele, and always gives a sprightly performance of her individual dances. In 1974 Ralph McTell wrote "Maddy Dances" in her honour, included on his album Easy . Prior married bassist Rick Kemp , though they have since divorced. The singer Rose Kemp is their daughter. Prior has recorded session work, albums of her own songs and eclectic styles from medieval (with The Carnival Band ), through British folk rock — Steeleye Span and Maddy Prior appeared on television with
308-506: The charity Cancer Research UK . In 1983, Maddy Prior became the namesake for Madelyne Pryor of the X-Men , created by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith . The band was directly referenced five years after Pryor's first appearance in the comics in Uncanny X-Men #238 with Pryor's child self singing a line from "Gone to America", one of Steeleye Span's biggest hits. Claremont had previously named
330-578: The festival celebrated its 50th year. Derek Schofield's book, The First Week in August – Fifty Years of the Sidmouth Festival , describing the history of the festival was published. 2004 was also the year in which Mrs Casey Music announced that they would no longer be running the festival. This was due to funding issues brought on in part by the 'rainy year' of 1997 which depleted much of the festival's financial reserves and in part by East Devon District Council withdrawing funding. For several months,
352-499: The festival was renamed the Sidmouth International Folklore Festival. From 1986, the festival was managed by Mrs Casey Music, who retitled it Sidmouth International Festival . The festival grew to over 65,000 visitors a year. In 1995 it became the birthplace of Shooting Roots, which provided a variety of workshops for young people and has played a key role in nurturing a network of young performers. In 2004
374-422: The future of the festival was uncertain, but the grass-roots folkie festival-goers wanted their Sidmouth festival to continue. Various groups of people, individuals and organisations began planning events for 2005 for their own particular aspect of the folk scene, and by November 2004 a steering group had been set up to co-ordinate and publicise these events under the new name of Sidmouth Folk Week . The 2005 event
396-727: The week. The 2013 Sidmouth Folk Week included concerts by Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes , Blowzabella , Colum Sands , the a capella singers Coope, Boyes and Simpson , Tim Eriksen , John Kirkpatrick , Jim Causley , Maddy Prior with Hannah James and Giles Lewin, The Spooky Men's Chorale from Australia , and Jeff Warner from New England in the USA. The 2007 event featured concerts by Show of Hands , Altan , Liz Ryder, The Spooky Men's Chorale , Eliza Carthy , Nancy Kerr and Vin Garbutt . The 2006 Sidmouth Folk Week included Blue Murder , Seth Lakeman and Roy Bailey . The festival includes
418-971: Was changed back to Sidmouth Folk Festival in December 2018. In 2020 the festival was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic . The festival returned in 2021 although there were no no official dance displays. The 2022 Folk Festival featured Spiers and Boden , Eddi Reader , Fisherman's Friends , among others. The 2018 Folk Week featured Fairport Convention , the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain , Roger McGough , Show of Hands , and Jackie Oates , among others. The 2014 festival included performances by Ralph McTell , Steve Knightley , Jim Causley , Jackie Oates, India Electric Co., Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin , Martin Simpson , Alex Kumar, Matt Gordon & Leonard Podolak, festival patron Martin Carthy , and others throughout
440-617: Was co-creator of the police drama Z-Cars , and wrote Stookie , a 6-part series for television, about a boy with his arm in a sling. Maddy sang the title song, which was released as a single in 1985. It reappeared on the Steeleye Span album A Rare Collection 1972 – 1996 . After a brief stint with Mac MacLeod in 'Mac & Maddy' (another act formed at The Cock pub), by 1966 she began performing with Tim Hart , another St Albans resident, and together they recorded two albums before becoming founding members of Steeleye Span in 1969. They were
462-509: Was much smaller than Sidmouth International Festival, it did not use the Arena Showground owing to financial risk involved, had fewer international performers and no season tickets. Nevertheless, it proved a resounding success, and so Sidmouth Folkweek was reborn. In 2005, Sidmouth FolkWeek Limited was registered as a charity with the object of promoting "... an annual festival of folk arts and other associated events." The festival's name
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#1732891645428484-542: Was part of the singing duo 'Mac & Maddy', with Mac MacLeod . She then performed with Tim Hart and recorded two albums with him, before they helped to found the group Steeleye Span, in 1969. She left Steeleye Span in 1997, but returned in 2002, and has toured with them since. With June Tabor she was the singing duo Silly Sisters . She toured with the Carnival Band, in 2007, and with Giles Lewin and Hannah James , in 2012 and 2013. She has released singles and albums as
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