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Albion is an impressive double cd anthology due for release on the acclaimed new folk and roots music label, Navigator Records. 21 tracks taken from across his previous 11 albums but also including previously unreleased material, as well as collaborations with a range of other artists, including The Imagined Village, Martin Carthy (OBE) and Karine Polwart. |
EAC Summer School - July 20-25th
Tutors Chris Wood and Robert Harbron - some places still available on this year's course, which is open to any musician with a deep interest in traditional music who is interested in exploring their own music-making in a creative, challenging, supportive environment.
Darwin Song Project
Songwriting project featuring Chris Wood, Karine Polwart, Stu Hanna, Emily Smith, Jez Lowe and Rachel McShane. Appearing at Shrewsbury Folk Festival (28-31 August 2009).
Chris Wood Folk Awards
Best Album and Folk Singer of the Year, BBC Folk Awards 2009
BBC video | BBC photo gallery | YouTube clip
Kerr Fagan Harbron dates now on the Diary page ... St Alban's, Warwick, Dartmoor and Whitby Festivals
England in Ribbons - listen
again
And don't miss the MySpace sites:
Chris Wood
EAC Summer School
Kerr Fagan Harbron
Methera
Welcome to the EAC website - its pages contain information and downloads on the organisation and the work of the individuals involved. Your feedback and suggestions are welcomed via an email link at the foot of each page.
The EAC is a fluid group of composers, writers and choreographers whose work is grounded in a love for their common cultural inheritance. The work outlined on the site seeks to articulate and amplify the case for authentic and meaningful indigenous forms of cultural expression. It also investigates the creative 'wet edge' between the traditional and the contemporary.
The people of England have been unravelling the
universe through their songs, stories, poetry, jokes and dances for millennia
and it is this vibrant body of work which becomes the freely given treasure
trove for the next generation. The simple lesson we have learnt from our
ancestors is to tell nothing more or less than our own story and that
the gold we are all searching for is in our own backyard.
Chris
Wood
“The way I see it is like this … There is this kind of treasure chest you have sitting in front of you, and if you were American or perhaps Irish you might have opened it by now, but because you live here it probably hasn’t occurred to you to do so yet. Well, I would urge you to open that thing up and delve inside it, because I believe you’ll find there a sublime vision of life in the British Isles at it has been lived over the last few centuries; and it’s the kind of vision that you can’t readily get from the works of say, Dickens or Shakespeare or Elgar or Sir Christopher Wren. If you don’t open that treasure box I think you are going to miss a certain dimension, a whole dimension of cultural life in this country so I urge you to do it.”
Speaking at the 2003 BBC Folk Awards, London
"What is it to be English? It is a very serious question. The English are somehow embarrassed about some of the good things they have done. Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, 'Let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains'. A failure to rediscover English culture would fuel greater political extremism."
Speaking before his enthronement as Archbishop of York, November 2005
