Be Glad For The Song Has No End ~ A Festival of Artists' Music ~ Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire. 11th September 2010
A one day festival celebrating artists' music through live performances, film screenings and events. The festival is set across three uniquely constructed stages in the grounds of Wysing Arts Centre, and is organized and arranged by artist/musician Andy Holden. Throughout the day artists will perform their music on the two outdoor stages whist a program of films and live performances that explore music from a more documentary or anthropological perspective take place in the cinema space.
The festival includes live music from Martin Creed and His Band, Bob and Roberta Smith's Apathy Band, Long Meg, Juneau Projects, Kaffe Matthews, Sue Tompkins, Owl Project, Die Kunst, Grubby Mitts, Joanne Robertson, Sam Belinfante, The Errorists, Saydance, Babygrand, Johnny Parry, Ricky Leach, Bohman Brothers with Richard Thomas, Aleksander Kolkowski, Rude Pravo, Socrates that practices music, and many others. DJ sets include Mark Leckey, Junior Aspirin Records, Mark Dean, and Lost Toys Records. Screenings include films by Nico Vascellari, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Matt Stokes, Luke Fowler, Ed Atkins, Benedict Drew, Paul Rooney, Rob Bidder, Archie Bronson Outfit, Jim Shaw and a live soundtrack by David Blandy. Events around the grounds are
Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether's Reverse Karaoke, Mark Essen's Record Exchange, An Endless Supply festival program and publication distribution, and an UBUWeb sound-system.
The event is supported by Arts Council East, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Resonance 104.4FM and the Wire, with recording and interviews from the festival to be broadcast on the station during September. It will bring to a close Wysing Arts Centre's "Camp for Improbable Thinking", the final chapter of their "Year of the Improbable".
Festival 12pm until 12pm.
Festival Ticket only £15
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Ticket including including coach from London £30
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(Coaches are operated by Grey's of Ely and leave from St Pancras Road at 10am and leave Wysing at 12am)
Ticket with coach from Cambridge £22.50
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(Coaches are operated by Grey's of Ely and leave from Cambridge Train Station at 11.30am and leave Wysing at 12am)
Limited camping tickets are also available for an additional £10
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Under 12s are Free (workshops for children will run 12-5)
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