Port Eliot Flower Show
Port Eliot Flower Show 2010 will see an eclectic and colourful new area added to the festival – The Flower Show, in the Orangery gardens – curated and designed by internationally acclaimed production designer, Michael Howells. Paying homage to the traditional British summer flower show but infusing it with Michael’s own unique style and magic, the Port Eliot Festival Flower Show will feature demonstrations, displays, music, art and fashion – all on a horticultural, floral theme – with everything from flower arranging classes to floral hat trimming workshops with Stephen Jones; Todd Longstaffe-Gowan on ephemeral indoor gardening in Regency London to expert ...
tentvillage-revisited
Dré Wapenaar After acclaimed exhibitions all over the world – from New York to Japan via Milan – Rotterdam-based artist, social architect and classical pianist Dré Wapenaar brings his incredible participatory performance space, ‘Tent Village Revisited’ to Port Eliot for the first time this year. ProjectBase, Cornwall’s contemporary art commissioning agency, in collaboration with Port Eliot Festival has invited artist Dré Wapenaar to show 'tentvillage-revisited' at this year's festival. Clustered together like a colony of woodland mushrooms, the rounded shapes and light and airy structures of 'tentvillage-revisited' are intended to encourage communal conversations and interactions as well as a place to chill out ...
The House of Fairy Tales
The House of Fairy Tales The now-legendary House of Fairy Tales explores the world of myth and legend through play, with a programme of workshops and performances throughout the weekend by characters appearing from a vast array of magical, surreal and mythical tales. Expect ceremonies, tea parties and parades as well as weird and wonderful objects and dreamlike encounters – whether you’re 2 or 92, entering the House by day or night, we guarantee you’ll be enchanted. Deborah Curtis and Gavin Turk will once again open the gates to the magical House of Fairy Tales, set deep in the woodland rhododendron garden. ...
Cherry Ghost
Cherry Ghost Cherry Ghost is an award-winning band who blend evocative lyrics with haunting melodies to reflect life in all its magical splendour. Their new album Beneath This Burning Shoreline is full of the messy, muddled loveliness of romance and the band will be romancing their way onto the Caught By The River stage for us at this year's festival. Led by songwriter and vocalist Simon Aldred, Cherry Ghost are Jim Rhodes, Ben Parsons, Grenville Harrop and Phill Anderson. Simon has come a long way since recording songs in his bedroom in Bolton. The band's debut album, Thirst For Romance (2007), entered ...
Gaz Mayall
Gaz Mayall Gaz Mayall is a musician, DJ, producer and record label owner. He’s the host of London’s longest running one-nighter, Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues – now in its 28th year – and the founder member of the ska band The Trojans. He also runs his record label Gaz’s Rockin’ Records. The son of legendary British blues musician John Mayall, Gaz Mayall lives in London and was raised on a diet of R&B before falling in love with reggae and ska music in the late 1960s. A self-confessed ‘musicaholic’, he runs the famous one-nighter Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues, a Soho institution since 1980 that ...
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker We're delighted to welcome musician, commentator and British cultural icon Jarvis Cocker to the festival this year, where he’ll be broadcasting his award-winning 6Music show The Sunday Service live and open-air from the Port Eliot Estate on the Sunday afternoon. Jarvis is often viewed as a maverick in the music world, fearlessly making strong personal statements – such as his now infamous stage invasion of Michael Jackson’s performance at the Brit Awards in 1996. But he’s also been hailed as “the next John Peel” (the Guardian), guest-edited the Observer Music Monthly, created a countryside album for the National Trust, curated ...
Lulu and The Lampshades
Lulu & The Lampshades With instruments ranging from ukuleles to yoghurt pots, Lulu and the Lampshades are a passionately ramshackle, upbeat and harmonic folk-pop foursome. With songs about drinking summer wine and old nautical handbooks, their quintessentially English sound has been branded as jolly and jaunty ‘good mood’ music. Their recent single ‘Feet to the Sky’ (2009) was described as “so cheery they could use it to advertise fun” (the Guardian). Currently working on a new EP for release this summer, The Lampshades started life as a pretend band in Bristol, before unleashing their talents for real on the London circuit. Their ...
The Boathouse Sculpture Park
The Boathouse Sculpture Park The Boathouse Sculpture Park, curated by Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, will transform the area along the banks of the river, with new site specific artworks and contemporary sculptures. Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski are artists who live and work in London. Their artistic collaboration has produced a diverse and experimental practice, including books, films, happenings, installations, interventions, music, photography and writing. They have exhibited their work nationally internationally, most recently at Grey Area in Paris. They have been involved with Port Eliot as artists since 2006. In 2007 they launched The Boathouse, as an area focussing on experimental ...
Danny and The Champions of The World
Danny and The Champions of The World Danny and The Champions of The World is not so much a band as a loose collective of artists who come together to create a unique country/soul/folk sound, blending spirited, pedal steel-scored Appalachian folk with gospel-tinged choruses, sun-drenched West Coast harmonies, deep soul and deft touches of psychedelia. Their latest album, Streets of Our Time was released in January. “It’s not a band, as such,” explains Danny, “it’s more like an open invitation to a group of friends. All sorts of people come and go, there’s no rules to it, I just tell them when ...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall A talented writer, broadcaster and campaigner, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is widely known for his uncompromising commitment to seasonal, ethically produced food and has earned a huge following through his River Cottage TV series and books. We're delighted to welcome him to Port Eliot as one of only two festival performances all summer. Hugh's early smallholding experiences were shown in Channel 4's River Cottage series and led to the publication of The River Cottage Cookbook (2001), which won the Glenfiddich Trophy and the André Simon Food Book of the Year awards. The success of the show and books allowed Hugh to establish ...
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PLUS:
Hailed as “the David Attenborourgh of radio” and creator of Port Eliot’s much-loved Nature Disco, award-winning sound artist Chris Watson is working on a special event for this year’s festival. Fresh off the plane from the North Pole, where he was working on the BBC’s Frozen Planet (to be broadcast in 2011), Chris came to Port Eliot in May to record for a unique new sound installation – ‘Dusk Until Dawn – A Soundscape around Port Eliot’ – which he’ll be presenting in the Round Room. Watch this short video to find out more:
Chris Watson recording at Port Eliot from Port Eliot Festival on Vimeo.
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