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Ondervinden - The Folk Effect
Ondervinden invites you to The Folk Effect: One Week. Five Bands. Six New Songs
The Folk Effect is a free, online, high-speed music-writing event programmed over six days.
Five folk bands from across the UK will each have twenty-four hours to write a new song directly inspired by the one created and live streamed the day before in a celebration of creativity and togetherness.
In addition, emerging artist Jo May has been commissioned to create a lino-cut portrait of each band. Her film of this process will be edited with that of the performances and shown in a final omnibus streaming of all the new pieces.
This project is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Rambootan : Starter track goes live 19:00 Monday 2nd November
Music Director’s band RAMBOOTAN leads new online music collaboration project.
Members - Jonathan Ip, Peru Eizagirre, Joe Nichols, Stefan Celosia
Based - Glasgow
Music - Funk & Amp; neo-soul
Link - www.rambootan.bandcamp.com
Isla Ratcliff : new song goes live 19:00PM Tuesday 3rd November
Music academic who wrote thesis on the role music played in the 2016 Scottish Referendum, now looking at new evolutions of collaborative folk music sharing process.
Based – Edinburgh
Music - fiddle player, singer, and composer; MA in Traditional Music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Performance - Celtic Connections, Cambridge Folk Festival, Sidmouth Folk Week and with Stramash Cèilidh Band
Website - www.islaratcliff.com
Twelfth Day : new song goes live 19:00PM Wednesday 4th November
Duo who travelled to Quebec, Malawi, Brazil, and Mongolia, sharing folk music traditions with local musicians, now find new ways of making, connecting and collaborating online.
Members - Catriona Price and Esther Swift
Based - Edinburgh
Music – Genre-bending Folk with classical influences
Nominations - Face to Face (album 2019), in the ‘Innovation in New Traditional Music’ category at the Scottish Awards for New Music
Website - www.twelfthdaymusic.com
The Moonlands : new song goes live 19:00PM Thursday 5th November
Determined to be the first band to play on the moon, The Moonlands are using this new remote virtual-event as an initial step to distanced performance.
Members – Tenzin Stephen, Nick Murray, Matt Harold and Mischa Stevens
Based - Edinburgh & Glasgow
Music - rustic historical ballads to funk astral love songs
Credits - Knockengorroch World Ceilidh 2019 (3 nights); music for Léa Luiz de Oliveira’s Scottish Documentary Institute short I Don’t Want To Call It Home
Performance - Glasgow’s Flat-Gig Scene
Website - www.themoonlands.com
Hazel Askew : new song goes live 19:00PM Friday 6th November
Daughter of two Morris dancers, she grew up immersed in the traditions and tales of English folk music and now takes part in the next evolution of the folk-music tradition: online collaborations.
Based - London
Music - singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer inspired by folk traditions
Credits - composer for Ben Crystal Company at Shakespeare´s Globe, Darren Ellis Dance, More Films, The Hampstead Players and Shakespeare in Styria
Awards - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Album in 2017 as part of Songs of Separation.
Best Female Singer at the Spiral Earth Awards
Performance - live on national radio and the folk scene
Website – www.hazelaskew.co.uk
Saturday 7th November 7pm - full omnibus of all songs released permanently on Social Media and at ondervinden.com with footage of band/performer portraits being created by commisioned artist Jo May
Jo May is an emerging artist who creates traditional lino cut portraits of bands for new online folk music event.
Based - Cornwall
Work - puppetry; wood sculpture; lino print
Trained - Puppetry (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
Performances and Exhibitions - The V&A, Skipton Puppetry Festival, Continuum Festival; Brighton Fringe.
Website - www.joelizabethmay.co.uk
The Ondervinden company draws on folk tales and traditions to create intimate storytelling events with wit and imagination. At home in the pubs and village halls of the South West of England our productions have music and storytelling at their heart.
Lucy Morris - Producer. Jonathan Ip - Musical Director. Elske Waite - Artistic Director.
Website: ondervinden.com
Tickets: free, or donate to support Ondervinden.
