Christmas is over, the New Year Hangover is a receding bad memory and the resolutions to "get fit" hasn't quite lapsed yet but the resolution to "do more fun things" hasn't quite lived up to billing just yet, but here is an opportunity to remedy this latter situation.
Those lovely people, Mr & Mrs Samuel, are playing an integral part of organizing Bradford on Avon's very own Roots and Acoustic Music Festival.
The programme includes a full weekend of music on January 12th & 13th 2013 taking place at the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford on Avon. The line up includes Johnny Coppin, The Daturas, Nick Sorenson & John Law, Chris's own group The Croutons, Andrew Bazeley, Light Garden and Jess Vincent, to name but a few of our 40+ acts. There'll also be a singing workshop, percussion workshops, a talk on the history of the blues, kids activities, morris dancing, specially brewed beer and fab food from the Fat Fowl restaurant in Bradford on Avon.
More information is available from www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk - where you can buy day tickets for £10 or weekend tickets at the very reasonable price of £15. Children under 11 are free and there are concessions for 11 - 18 year olds. Tickets available from the Wiltshire Music Centre http://www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk/ (01225 860100).
Who knows, you might bump into one or two people you know.
Yuletide being a time when one traditionally gets together with your family we have a particularly appropriate, if somewhat quirky posting celebrating this notion.
Many of our readers will be familiar with Jessica Samuel, daughter of our esteemed ChoirMeister, Mr Samuel, from the workshops she has run in Swindon and other places over the last year or two. She graduated in 2011 with a BA (HONS) in Performing Arts from the prestigious Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and since then has been in constant work, much to the great pleasure (and relief!) of her proud dad.
Now she is about to go on tour in Germany with an extraordinary production that is an act that is somewhere near a cross between Naked Voices and the Blue Man Group, except the are yellow (!) called the Voci Family. They have made a showcase video to give you a flavour of what they are about and it is well worth a quick look to marvel at the range of material they sing. Jess can be seen at many points throughout the video, starting with appearing at 0:29, top centre and then at 0:43 and 0:50 on the left. See if you can spot her further along.
