Workshops and Special Events
Saturday
Richard and Laura tie the matrimonial knot at 1pm today, so be sure to wear your most outrageous wedding hat.
Photo Competition
Enter your MOM themed photos for your chance to win great prizes! Photos will be taken in digital format straight from your camera or memory pen throughout the festival (so you don't need access to a printer). Enter at the Scrumptious Sweets Stall throughout the festival until 4pm Sunday. Winners will be announced around 5pm. Prizes by Andrew Cheal Photography and Off the Wall – Judged by Tricia Meynell.
Entry fee and categories are:
Adult: £1
Child: £50p
Prizes: CHILD:
1st: £10
2nd: £5
3rd: £2 voucher for Scrumptious Sweets Stall
ADULT
1st: Photo Shoot with Andrew Cheal Photography
2nd: Drink and a cake for 2 at Off the Wall
3rd: A 2017 Calendar of Carlisle and the surrounding area
9.30 Claw Hammer Banjo Master Class with Dan Walsh (Marquee 80 mins) Dan is something special and the leading claw hammer banjo player in this country. He has developed a unique and prize winning technique. Come and find out how he does it.
11.00 Around the Reservoir Race. It starts and finishes, as usual, outside The Duke of Cumberland pub. The course is approximately two miles long. All ages and abilities are welcome, and there will be a medal for everyone who finishes. If nothing else, it's a great way to run off that Friday night excess and get you in the groove for another fabulous day of music and fun. And if you don't want to run, just come along and support the runners as they power their way to the finish....
11.45; 2.00 4.00 5.00 Hexham Morris Men and Hexhamshire Lasses Dance Out. The Morris is England’s oldest surviving dance tradition. For at least five and a half centuries, it has been performed to welcome the spring, and to mark the turning of the year at midsummer and midwinter. One version of it was danced in Hexham until the 19th century. A local revival began in 1976. In their costume of grey top hats, blue baldrics and individually embroidered waistcoats the Hexham Morris Men became a familiar sight at events like the Morpeth Gathering and the Ovingham Goose Fair. They have earned an excellent reputation for their dancing and are now established as one of the best Cotswold Morris Dance teams in the North. They perform a full and varied programme of Cotswold dances from Fieldtown, Ducklington and Lichfield also border and North East rapper sword dances. New recruits are urgently needed.
1.00; 3.30 , 5.45 Hadrian Clog Dancers. Hadrian Clog are a local clog dancing team based along Hadrian’s Wall who dance traditional steps from Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria, Westmorland, Lancashire, Shetland Isles, Cape Breton, Scottish Highlands, Quebec, Ottawa and more. They try to keep the traditions authentic, with the styles reflecting their place of origin.
2.30. Clog Dance Workshop with Hadrian Clog (School Yard 45 mins) The team are happy to teach clog dancing to anyone wanting to learn so turn up for this taster session and unlock your potential.
12.00 An Introduction to Bagpipes and Whistles with Bill Lloyd Part 1 (Bills Dome, Campsite).Part 2 tomorrow at 11am. This workshop, in two parts, is open to complete novices. It will not give instruction in advanced technique, but offers an introduction beginning with the various types of pipes and whistles, together with tuning, volume and tone, as a guide to buying your first (or your next) instrument. This will be followed by an introduction to basic techniques such as finger positions, ‘open’ and ‘closed’ playing, octaves, tonguing, breath control, legato playing, (slurs) and vibrato. For the bagpipes, the workshop will demonstrate mouth-blown and bellows blown technique, and pressure control. Observers and audience are welcome – there is no obligation to play.
Bagpipes:
Galician Gaita in C
Scottish Smallpipes in A
Scottish Shuttle pipes in A
Swayne Border pipes in G
Uilleann Pipes in D.
Whistles: Wooden whistles in D, C and G. Metal whistles in D, C, Bb, E, and G
Recorders Alto Recorders in C
Some whistles in the key of D will be available for you to try. And we will have some for sale from the festival office.
12. 30 Play the Ukulele with Ian K Brown (School. 90 mins) An absolute beginner’s workshop on Saturday and an improvers event on Sunday. Be ready to sing, have fun and surprise yourself. This workshop is suitable for total beginners (aged 8 – 80+) and those who have made a start but cannot join chords together. If you have your own ukulele please bring it along, but we will also have 12 ‘spare’ ukuleles for people to borrow.
There will an opportunity tomorrow to be part of a performance of what we have learned – so make sure you invite your friends to come and see you at the performance - - they will be stunned! This a great opportunity for parents and children to do an activity together.
11.30 ; 2.00; 4.00 and 6.00 Professor Jigget (‘Yan, Tan, Thethera’ on School Field) Join eminent adventure, fairy hunter, goblin scientist, and storyteller Professor Jigget for a weekend of stories, adventure, and nonsense. Hear wonderful tales of bewilderment, witness an array of magical curiosities, and hunt for Castle Carrock's own faerie folk. Suitable for families with imagination and inquisitive minds.
3.00 Circus Workshop with Mahum Butt ( Field ehind the Church ) Have a go at the types of skills and tricks everyone can get their hands on at this 60 minute open toy box session. This gives the you access to props (including hoop, poi and juggling balls), and a selection of mentors who will be on hand to teach little tricks with your chosen prop. You can wander between prop stations while learning different things. You have space to step back, experiment with the prop and just have a play!
3.30 Learn to Dance like a Cotswold Morris Man (School Yard 60 mins). Lead by Hexham Morris. Have a go and see what you can do at this taster session. New recruits are always needed in Morris sides all over the country.
Ben Gates Sound Sculptures (Near the School) The workshops are run using a specially designed kit that enables participants to easily create large colorful abstract musical structures. Playful components comprise of tuned percussion instruments inspired by xylophones, marimbas, chimes, horns, whistles, bongos, organ pipes and gongs. Think of it as a mini sound park. No age limits. Ben will be here during Saturday and Sunday.
Labyrinth Circus, Street and Fire Show. The Labyrinth crew with Claire Harvey and Dan Brown’s Street Shows return for their 4th vist to MOM. Appearing across the weekend with circus shows, stilt-walkers, aerialists jugglers a magician and even a bubbleologist. Keep an eye on the board for show times and don't miss the fabulous fire show in the school yard on Saturday night.
Sunday
9.30 Fiddle Workshop with Fara (School 60 mins)
Come along this morning and get into an Orkney island swing with the FARA lasses. You'll get to learn some of the girls’ local tunes, their different rhythmical accompaniments from the island and speak to them about their styles and genres of music that have influenced them. All levels of ability are welcome - let's have some fun!
10.00 Hearing Our Stories and Voices with Mairi Campbell ( Marquee 85 mins). Mairi facilitates a creative exploration for anyone interested in accessing their stories and voice. Using only what you already have, Mairi's easy and supportive facilitation allows creative collaborations to happen with no effort and much fun. No experience required, only willingness!
10.45 A Ramble with a Difference Music on the Marr is on the edge of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Explore one of its most beautiful corners, Geltsdale. Local walking guide writer, Mark Richards, will lead a morning’s walk through this lovely valley. Mark is a real enthusiast and is often on radio and television sharing his joy in walking and the great outdoors. The walk will not only show you the delights of our wonderful countryside but will also uncover sites of prehistoric interest. The walk is suitable for adults and children. Sturdy shoes or light walking boots would be a good idea. Meet outside The Duke at 10.45 for a lift up to Jockey Shield (1 mile) or start walking in the direction of Geltsdale at 10.30.
11.00 Play the Ukulele with Ian K Brown. Improvers. (Church. 90 mins) Followed by a performance at 12.15 If you know the chords C, F and G and can change comfortably between them this is for you. We will sound amazing at the end of the session! We have 12 spare ukuleles but if you have you own bring it. If you did the class yesterday then this is the next step.
11.30 Mompoem ! (Duke of Cumberland) Write a poem about Music on the Marr while you're with us and be in with the chance to win a £30 book voucher. Bring your poem along to a gathering in the Duke on Sunday morning at 11.30 and we'll all have a chance to share our words, thoughts and impressions, and hear what you've written. All ages, styles and abilities are welcome.
12.00 Learn to Dance like a Cotswold Morris Man (School Yard 60 mins). Lead by Hexham Morris. Have a go and see what you can do at this taster session. New recruits are always needed in Morris sides all over the country.
12.30 An Introduction to Bagpipes and Whistles with Bill Lloyd. Part II (Bills Dome, Campsite).
Follow up on your work yesterday or just come and listen. There is no obligation to play.
12.30 Echoes of old Cumbria: Traditional Songs, Music & Dance from the Lake Counties. A presentation by Sue Allan (School 75 mins). Few people seem to know that Cumbria has a rich store of traditional music, as the literary legacy of the Lake Poets has historically overshadowed Cumbria’s musical heritage. Yet we have here a unique repertoire of hunting songs and songs in dialect as well as folk songs from broadside ballads, along with scores of fiddle tunes and dances bequeathed by Lakeland’s travelling fiddlers and dancing masters.
Born and bred in Cumbria with John Peel as one of her forebears, Sue Allan has worked in local media and the arts for many years, and writes regularly for Cumbria Life magazine. Sue began singing in folk clubs at age 15, co-founded and performed with Carlisle and Throstles Nest Morris teams and the Ellen Valley Band, and has been researching Cumbrian music for almost 40 years.
2.00 ; 4.00; and 6.00 Professor Jigget (‘Yan, Tan, Thethera’ on School Field) Join eminent adventure, fairy hunter, goblin scientist, and storyteller Professor Jigget for a more stories, adventure, and nonsense. Hear wonderful tales of bewilderment, witness an array of magical curiosities, hunt for Castle Carrock's own faerie folk. Suitable for families with imagination and inquisitive minds.
12.45; 2.30; 4.00 and 6.00 Carlisle Clog and Sword Dancers. Traditional Clog, English Longsword and Step Dancing side, based in Carlisle. They have had a long and chequered past, with various incarnations and monikers. The side is predominantly clog and step, with some long sword dances being perfected. They have, in the past, performed Rapper, Border, Cotswold and North West, and has danced in many places, both in Britain and overseas. The Cloggies are predominantly female, but do not exclude males from taking part.
1.30, 3.30. 5.30 Hadrian Clog Dancers Hadrian Clog is a local clog dancing team based along Hadrian’s Wall who dance traditional steps from Northumberland, Durham, Cumbria, Westmorland, Lancashire, Shetland Isles, Cape Breton, Scottish Highlands, Quebec, Ottawa and more. They try to keep the traditions authentic, with the styles reflecting their place of origin.
3.00 The Longest Beard Competition. (Marr) Show us yer whiskers. The longest whiskers and knitted beard wins a prize. Judged by someone very bald.
4.40 ‘Sing for Water’ Singing Workshop with Lulu Guinness (School 40 mins)Every year groups of singers all over the country get together to sing songs in order to raise money for WaterAid. This year Castle Carrock’s home-grown singing group, Geltsdale Singers (check them out in the church on Friday evening), will be leading a mini singing workshop to teach “Bring Me a Little Water, Sylvie” which we will then take out and about with a bucket or two into which, we hope, will rain many pennies from heaven (or the thread-bare pockets of our festival-goers). Those who prefer not to sing out and about are more than welcome to join us just for the workshop and the sheer joy of singing together in harmony.
6.30 Labyrinth Circus Ariel Display. (Field behind the church).
