West Buckland Festival 2010 Events

West Buckland Festival

PROGRAMMES OF EVENTS 9th to the 12th September 2010.

West Buckland Festival is a festival of music, entertainment and leisure, held in a small village on the edge of Exmoor. This year's festival featured more than a dozen events between 9th and 12th September 2010.

This year we will be supporting Shelter Box who respond instantly to natural and manmade disasters by delivering boxes of aid to those who are most in need.Each box supplies an extended family of up to 10 people with a tent and essential equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless.

Click on the image of Sarah Kane above
for more images of the 2009 festival

The objectives of the West Buckland Festival are to:

Provide music, art and entertainment for the purpose of enriching the lives of people in North Devon and raise monies for the upkeep of St Peter's Church, West Buckland and to provide additional funding for another Charity or Charities chosen by the Festival Committee each year.

In 2007 that Charity was the East Buckland and West Buckland Village Hall. In 2008 the Charity was the Children's Hospice – Little Bridge House, Fremington. In 2009 the Charity we supported was 'Help for Heroes'; a Charity formed to help those servicemen and women wounded in conflicts.

Below is a preview of events

Friday evening, 10th September we have the widely acclaimed Russian born, part British and certainly wholly Devonian Classical Pianist Veronika Shoot. Also on the bill, the heavenly sounds of Susan Sherratt on the harp.

Saturday night will be Cabaret time! Jonathan Ralph will be our MC. With him will be a host of Stars including Harry The Piano (West Buckland Festival, Director of Music), Sarah Kane, Bert Parton, Elfic the Juggler and Jester. Plus a galaxy of others all giving a special evening of Songs From The Shows.

And on Sunday night there will be an opportunity for nostalgia and sheer pleasure with Gordon Hunt and The Panama Jazz Kings. If you love the balmy, warm atmosphere of an evening in New Orleans with the sounds of traditional jazz wafting over you then this is a 'must' evening - 7.30 in St Peter's Church.

The Art Exhibition, renamed The Gallery, will be in St Peter's Church - a very special place to meet and talk and enjoy the eclectic art of some outstanding North Devon artists and crafts people. There will be Work by Lani Shepherd, Ernest Davey, Sandra Andrews, Gerald Moore and many others. The Gallery will be open throughout the Festival and there will be many chances to browse and maybe buy your favourite works of art and help support the North Devon arts.

We shall have at least three Workshops. Lynne Vick will lead one on Patchwork; another will be on Exploring Hedgerows and on Saturday afternoon Mark Parkhouse the antique specialist, will discuss and value your antiques with you.

On Sunday Maureen and Jim Hawkins will take us on another great Festival Walk and Rev. Alan Kettle will lead the Harvest Festival Sunday Service.

SILENT AUCTION LOTS

Click on the lots below for more details.

Lot 1. A Week for FOUR in a Cottage in Laugharne in South Wales - the village of Dylan Thomas.

Lot 2. A conducted tour for up to SIX people of Castle Hill with Lady Arran.

Lot 3. A tour for TWO at the RNLI Lifeboat Station at Appledore with a special tour of the new £2.7m Tamar Lifeboat.

Lot 4. A half day for FOUR with TV Chef and multi Rosette winner, Richard Hunt at the Grand Hotel Torquay - followed by lunch or dinner.

Lot 5. A unique black tie candlelit four course private dinner for FOUR with champagne, special wines and musical Entertainment

Lot 6. An afternoon and evening visit for TWO to the BBC Television Production Control Centre in Bristol. See a 'live' News programme being prepared and broadcast.

Below is a brief video of the Your Art exhibition and the Garden Party of 2009.

The video is by Mike Sunderland and the background music is Ruth Applin (one of 2009's performers).

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