Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 06:49 PM

Thanks Jimmy - good to see you there and appreciate all your help

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,cujimmy
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 05:00 PM

I met some people in a restaurant tonight who were still enthusing about the Festival.

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 02:25 PM

Yes the food and beer were excellent - what a nightmare journey

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 29 Nov 11 - 07:18 AM

Excellent catering too - I enjoyed my chicken curry accompanied by a pint of Mary Jane from Ilkley Brewery.

The only problem I had was in travelling. The train across the Pennines was replaced by a bus. I was surprised when we passed the hall where we rehearse in Burnley. I was even more surprised when we passed it again five minutes later!

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 28 Nov 11 - 07:56 AM

Thanks Henry - we have had some really positive feedback which, along with watching people have a great time, makes all the work worthwhile.

Someone said it was like a swan - seemingly serene on the surface but with mad paddling underneath - which was about right!

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Nov 11 - 06:57 AM

A wonderful weekend - brilliant venue, fantastic organisation and great concerts. Congratulations to all!

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 27 Nov 11 - 06:28 PM

Only managed to see one of Jon's songs but I was so impressed bought 1the CD - I was running another gig at the time with two other great Jon's amongst others.

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: bradfordian
Date: 27 Nov 11 - 03:41 PM

A very entertaining and thought provoking concert today (Sunday) featuring a very energetic
Jon Fromer, from the US west coast, and from Peggy Seeger, who also demonstrated her ability to put into rhyme and song, the mood of the masses with her more recent compositions. My earlier reservations were quickly disspelled!
Jon Fromer "Gonna Take Us All" video

bradfordian

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 26 Nov 11 - 08:34 PM

Glad you enjoyed it - makes all the hard work worthwhile - just one more day and then we can go home at night and watch TV like normal people :-)

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,bradfordian
Date: 26 Nov 11 - 06:05 PM

Two excellent sessions today (saturday) 30 choirs, very good quality singing coupled with slick and efficient organisation; congratualtions Keith and crew for a superb event in Bradford Cathedral.

but Who won the song non-competition?

bradfordian

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 02:59 PM

Just over 2 weeks left to go and tickets have sold out for a couple of concerts but plenty left for others. Lots of other events too - check out the website

Raise Your Banners

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,cujimmy
Date: 20 Oct 11 - 06:15 PM

really looking forward to this

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 06:22 PM

Glad you can make it bradfordian - tickets for the Peggy Seeger concert (and John Tams/Roy Bailey/Hall Brothers concert on Friday) are going quickly so if anyone wants to attend those get your tickets asap!

Lots of other great stuff too as Nick mentioned!

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,bradfordian
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 11:05 AM

I'll be there in my native city once again with my socialist choir from Nottingham. Looking forward to the Peggy Seeger concert.

bradfordian

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Joe G
Date: 18 Oct 11 - 12:34 PM

Will you be able to get across Pete? Be good to see you!

Subject: RE: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: theleveller
Date: 18 Oct 11 - 04:12 AM

Graet stuff, great festival!

Subject: Raise Your Banners Festival, Bradford
From: GUEST,Nick B Hall
Date: 18 Oct 11 - 04:08 AM

Hi folks

Just thought people might be interested in this, the only purely political music festival in Britain!

This year the line-up includes John Tams & Barry Coope, Roy Bailey, Peggy Seeger, Amsterdam (Pele's Ian Prowse's new band, John Peel approved!), The Hall Brothers & Michelle Plum, Ewan McLennan, Seize The Day, Robb Johnson, Justin Sullivan, massed choirs and an evening of radical world jazz in Bradford Cathedral.

Most of the festival takes place at Kala Sangam, St Peter's House in the centre of Bradford. There are also stalls, films, talks, a real ale bar as well as loads of great music. Aspiring political songwriters can upload their songs to the website and may get asked to perform during the Robb Johnson concert!

The festival runs from the 25 to 27th November.

More information and tickets available from http://www.raiseyourbanners.org/

Thanks!

Nick