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  • The Swaledale Festival has a history of over 40 years bringing music and other arts to Swaledale, Wensleydale and Arkengarthdale.
  • Approximately 50% of Festival audiences come to the area on holiday from all over the UK and other parts of the world, in many cases especially for the Festival.
  • The Swaledale Festival also has a highly regarded programme of education and community events. In 2014 it was awarded the Prime Minister’s ‘Big Society Award' for its work with local schools on a music and art project over the autumn/winter of 2013-14

Brazil at the Swaledale festival

An emerging theme

  • 19 May 2016

We don't have an official theme for this year's Festival, unlike last year when we focussed on the human voice. However, quite by chance several unconnected events this Rio Olympics year have a Brazil connection, albeit sometimes tenuous.

First of all we have Christine Tobin on 28 May with her songs of Elis Regina, Brazil's favourite singer until her early death in 1982. Then on 31 May Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale is part of AKA Trio,a truly international group, the other two being from Italy and Senegal. As we've prepared the concert programmes for printing we find also that solo percussionist Joby Burgess also features an ancient musical instrument from Brazil, the berimbau, in his programme on 6 June. Then on the final day, 11 June, award-winning choir Northern Spirit include in their programme a piece by Lars Jansson arr. G. Eriksson called To the mothers in Brazil: Salve Regina and an Ave Maria by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos. 

Maybe it's the fact that the Olympics take place in Brazil later this year or maybe it's just one of those odd flukes that make theSwaledale Festival so special.

 

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