Festival in the forest unveils eclectic line-up
MUSIC, POETRY, AUTHORS AND MORE WILL BE PART OF TIMBER
of a music festival in the National Forest have revealed the latest additions to the line-up.
The three-day Timber festival will take place from July 1 to 3, at Feanedock, in Moira.
Already announced were Penguin Cafe, The Turbans and Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
New names revealed include the bands Orielles, Holy Moly and The Crackers, and acoustic folk singer Billie Marten.
British-Asian clarinettist Arun Ghosh returns to Timber after last year’s performance with sound artist Jason Singh and this time he is bringing his band to perform music from their new album.
Fiona Bevan, who has penned songs with Ed Sheeran, Kylie Minogue and Lewis Capaldi, will perform songs from her new EP.
Further music acts include Dominie Hooper, indie rock duo Smoke Fairies, folk artist Joy Becker, Folkatron Sessions, and a special performance from Threaded will bring deaf and hearing audiences together through music, song and sign language.
BBC Radio 3 DJ Elizabeth Alker will take over The Eyrie Stage.
Outdoor performances and installations will be brought to Timber by Without Walls, including giant plants made from fabric and air in Unfurl and a garden created by robotic studio Air Giants.
Using dance, circus and theatre on a seven-metre-high hourglass, Joli Vyann’s dance and theatre piece Timeless explores climate change.
Look Mum, No Hands! is a tender story about friendship and growing up, told through physical theatre by Daryl Beeton Productions and Mimbre, and Lives of Clay by The Clay Connection brings stories of women from ancient myths to life through classical Indian dance, original music and half a ton of clay.
The Gloaming is a light trail inspired by nature’s greatest spectacles.
BBC Radio 4’s Geoff Bird will host the fourth series of Timber podcast Wilderness Tracks , in which he welcomes a range of guests for a chat about their favourite nature-inspired pieces of music.
The latest guests to be announced are Janet Ellis and writer and broadORGANISERS caster Natalie Haynes. They join hiphop MC and world record breaking beatboxer Testament.
Author Karen Lloyd will discuss her book Abundance: Nature in Recovery, and Lyndsie Bourgon will take audience members into the underworld of the illegal timber market through her book Tree Thieves.
Helen Jukes will lead a writing workshop to explore the special place that forests hold in our imaginations and Dr Sally Bell joins Slow Food in the UK’s series of talks from leading chefs and speakers.
Sarah Bird, co-director of Timber
Festival, said: “I’m so excited to be back in the National Forest for our fourth festival.
“We’ve got such an eclectic music line-up this year.
“I’m also really looking forward to building a new world in DIY Utopia, a nomadic village we’ll all create together over the weekend.
“Rethinking and questioning the ways in which we live is what Timber is all about.”
Tickets are on sale, from £20 for a child day ticket to £130 for an adult three-day camping ticket.
Residents of the National Forest get 25 per cent off all tickets.