World music , roots and performing arts gathering Musicport Festival has revealed new additions to its 2019 program. The festival will take place at Whitby Pavilion in Whitby, UK, October 18th-20th, 2019 (Plus On Tour to villages October 21st -25th).
Headliners include Misty in Roots; LO’JO; Warsaw Village Band;
Orchestra les Mangalepa; Catrin Finch and Sekou Keita; Lemn Sissay; Banco de Gaia; Amira Medunjanin; Reem Kelani; Aziza Brahim; and Peatbog Faeries.
Late additions to this year’s published line-up include: Lemn Sissay will be doing an additional performance on Sunday morning on main stage; Paul Armfield will be performing Saturday and will be involved performing on the village tour (21st -25th); Phoebe Ophelia Douthwaite (Arts Council funded and highly rated One-Woman Theatre Show); Fie Fie Fie; and rapper Lence.
Other additions include The FM Organ, a playable drone instrument, built by Yorkshire artist Napoleon IV -using 10 FM transmitters and 27 FM radios. It will be installed in the basement of La Rosa Hotel just over the road from the main venue and free to view /interact with throughout weekend; Old Time Rags; and a showing of the film of Jeremy Hardy at Musicport ’16 as a tribute to the much-missed comedian.
A whole program of workshops is now confirmed including Salsa Dance, Political Conflict Resolution Through Play, Magic, Cookery Demonstrations (Randall Romero & guests), Indian Singing, Group Singing, Bollywood Dance, Drum Circle, Somatics, Tai Chi, Hang Drum, Flat Dance, Musical Saw, Spoons, Poetry (John Hegley) and Meet The Artist Sessions (with Ian Clayton).
Young people’s activities: The Makee Marquee has a variety of activities including “Create your own Desert Island” and “Weave Away”, while Captain Kipper will entertain with his special brand of tale-telling and magic. There will be pop-up magic too from Paul Bower, and a special percussion workshop on the Blundabus plus henna t-shirts and a junk instrument workshop led by Maurice of the Really Rubbish Orchestra from Northern Ireland.
Festival director and founder Jim McLaughlin says “We are really excited by this year’s program … there are too many potential highlights to actually single out any in particular as in lots of ways this can be seen as a “Best Of Musicport” line-up to celebrate our first 20 years. We are also expecting to be able to announce a major new initiative at this year’s festival which will provide the basis for major developments to take the festival forward for the next 20 years.”
More at www.musicportfestival.com
Author: World Music Central News Room
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