Performances of ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 school-based design workshops with James Aldridge, and 3 community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

A morning walk, using Nature Explorer backpacks, designed by local school children working with place-based artist James Aldridge, followed by a lunchtime concert of words and music (12:15pm), led by Paul Sartin.

Booking recommended but it is OK to just turn up.

Please note: there will be a concert rehearsal session with Paul Sartin on the morning of this event.

This event is part of the Watercress and Winterbournes project.

Where: Andover - Meet Anton Lakes car park 10am

When: 17th July 2022.

Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

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’.

Performances ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 community riverside artist-led workshops with James Aldridge, and 3community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

Lunchtime concert and picnic, followed by an afternoon artist-led walk.

please note: there will be a rehearsal session with Paul Sartin on the morning of this event.

This event is part of the HIOWWT Watercress and Winterbournes project.

Where: Vernham Dean

When: 2nd July 2022.

Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Performances ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 community riverside artist-led workshops with James Aldridge, and 3community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

A morning artist-led walk, followed by lunchtime concert and picnic

please note: there will be a concert rehearsal session with Paul Sartin on the morning of this event.

This event is part of the Watercress and Winterbournes project.

Where: Vernham Dean

When: 2nd July 2022.

Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Performances ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 community riverside artist-led workshops with James Aldridge, and 3community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

Lunchtime concert and picnic, followed by an afternoon artist-led walk.

please note: there will be a rehearsal session with Paul Sartin on the morning of this event.

This event is part of the HIOWWT Watercress and Winterbournes project.

Where: Appleshaw , ( specific river location given to guests closer to the date)

When: 25th June 2022.

Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Performances ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 community riverside artist-led workshops with James Aldridge, and 3community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

A morning artist-led walk, followed by lunchtime concert and picnic

please note: there will be a concert rehearsal session with Paul Sartin on the morning of this event.

This event is part of the Watercress and Winterbournes project.

Where: Appleshaw ( specific river location given to guests closer to the date)

When: 25th June 2022.

Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.