Front Row - 10 Jan 2023 19.15 How AI is changing art, the TS Eliot Prize for poetry and the folk music of wassailing It’s the time of year when lovers of orchards, apples and cider gather to bless and encourage their trees. The tradition of wassailing is ancient, and modern too. Jim Causley from Whimple, Dartmoor, sings wassails old and new, and with artist Simon Pope talk about their project ‘Here’s to Thee’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gwzk > ~13:30 (They clip they play is from the recording by Peter Kennedy Walter Sealy and Harry Sealy wassail songs, Ash Priors, Somerset 1957. Tape 2 https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Peter-Kennedy-Collection/025M-C0604X0974XX-0001V0) (Simon Pope's HERE'S TO THEE Experiments with the more-than-human social worlds of Devonshire cidermaking http://heres-to-thee.org.uk/) (THE HALSTOW WASSAIL A FILM BY BEVIS BOWDEN https://www.bevisbowdenfilms.co.uk/work#/new-gallery-5/) (“Here’s To Thee” Cecil Sharp House, London Hear songs old and new, and watch Bevis Bowden’s new film The Halstow Wassail. Wednesday 11 Jan 2023 7:30pm-9:30pm https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-gigs/11933-here-s-to-thee)
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