Join us in celebration of our woodland ecological and cultural heritage within a range of voices in Harmony Woods. At matinee and evening performances, 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 is an event not to be missed!
This event is part of the Voices in Harmony project
Where: Harmony Woods
When: 16th July 2022. 2 performances, 1 matinee 2:30-4:00pm and 1 evening - 6:45-8:15pm
Enquire/ Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk
Buy Tickets: Enham Post Office & Stores or through our online shop here.
‘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’.