Join us for our Voices in Harmony legacy concert. In celebration of our woodland ecology and cultural heritage, the concert will have a range of voices from the local community that will have work with acclaimed folk musician Jackie Oates.
A nature trail will be open from 1:30pm till 4:30pm (except during the performance), showcase the beautiful wild spaces within Harmony Woods. There will be time for a picnic in the woods between 1:30pm and 2:30pm (please bring your own), with the concert to follow (2:30pm till 3:30pm).
An intergenerational community choir, accompanied by the sounds of the trees themselves, will perform traditional folk songs and a new choral composition - a Memory Tree Shanty - in Harmony Woods. This will be followed by an Afternoon Tea provided by Andover Trees United from 3:30pm till 4:30pm.
This is an event not to be missed!
Where: The Cabin, Harmony Woods, Andover
When: Saturday 16th June, 1:30pm till 4:30pm
Tickets: £10 per person, under 12s go free - £3 if staying for afternoon tea (pay on the day). Includes all aspects of the event.
Enquire: Email terri.forbes@andovertrees.org.uk
About Jackie Oates
Jackie Oates is an English Folk Musician, Singer, Performer and Educator. Jackie lives in Oxfordshire with her young family. See her website for more information here.
About Voices in Harmony
‘Voices in Harmony’ has been planned jointly by contributing artists Justin Wiggan, Paul Sartin and Jackie Oates and Andover Trees United. Through a series of workshops and performances the project will lead children and adults on a musical journey in celebration of woodlands, including the Ash Trees from which Andover partly derives its name*. Collected stories and memories gathered in response to meetings with trees will be combined into new Tree Shanties, which will be performed alongside traditional folk song by an intergenerational choir in Harmony Woods, accompanied by the made-audible responses of the surrounding trees.
*Andover: A crossroads for millennia, small groups settled here, creating homesteads and fortifying areas on the hilltops but all that really survives of those pre-Saxon times is the town's name: from 'Onna-dwfr', 'Anna-dwfr', or 'Andefera', 'the river of the ash trees’ or ‘place by the Ash-tree waters’.