FILM CLUB FIRST FOR BEVERLEY FESTIVAL- For the first time in its 28-year history

FILM CLUB FIRST FOR BEVERLEY FESTIVAL

For the first time in its 28-year history, there’s to be a Film Club at the Beverley Festival next month.

        

Launched in partnership with Beverley Film Society, the Club will feature 4 specially-selected films with a strong folk music theme.

The initiative will be launched  on the morning of Saturday 18 June in the Club Room at Beverley Leisure Complex with Travelling for a Living, a 1965 BBC documentary featuring the early days of the Watersons as they toured the country in an old van from their home in Hull.

Later the same day there is a chance to see how the Watersons have evolved over the years  with a special showing of The Waterson Family  -  Live at Hull Truck, recorded last August and due to be released on DVD on June 13.

This unique home coming concert was their first in Hull for 25 years and has been described by Radio 2’s Mike Harding as “the folk event of the decade”. It brought together the original Watersons, Norma and Mike, plus Norma’s husband, Martin Carthy and their daughter Eliza, Mike’s wife Ann, their daughters Rachel and Eleanor, and the son and daughter of the late Lal Waterson, Oliver Knight and Marry Waterson.

Together the extended family perform  no less than 21 songs from their rich and varied repertoire, including “White Cockade”, "Bright Phoebus", "Fine Horseman", "Some Old Salty", "Shallow Brown", "Three Day Millionaire". The film also includes exclusive interviews with the members of the family at their home in Robin Hoods Bay; creating a fascinating career retrospective of the life and times of England’s first family of folk. The Watersons’ film will be preceded by a live set from Martin Carthy.

At noon on Sunday June 19 there will be a screening of the mock documentary about the US folk scene, A Mighty Wind, made by the same team who made the hugely-popular “rockumentary” Spinal Tap. This will be followed, later in the day, by the much-acclaimed Morris, A Life with Bells On - a heart-warming comedy, following the fortunes of an avant-garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

Cally Barker, Membership Secretary of the Beverley Film Society said “The Festival is a great opportunity for the Beverley Film Society to showcase what we do.  We’re looking forward to reaching a new potential audience over the festival weekend.  People can find out more about us at www.beverleyfilmsociety.org”

Admission to the films is free to all festival Weekend and Day ticket holders.

Event tickets can be purchased online from www.beverleyfestival.com or call 01377 217569. 

£4.00 each (£5.00 for event featuring Martin Carthy live)

Tickets for these (and the other festival events) available from the Beverley, Hull and the Humber Bridge Tourist Information Centres.

For further information about the festival:

www.beverleyfestival.com or call 01377 217569