Programme for Moreton Traditional Sing 2025
Full Programme
This may not be the final version yet.Also info on talks has yet to come (soon, hopefully)
Fri, 28 February 2025
Time
Room
Event
14:00 – onwards
Check in
17:30 – 18:30
Restaurant
Dinner
19:00 – late
London Bar
Music session
19:00 – 21:00
Connections 2
Concert: Mal Waite introduces festival guests.
21:10 – 21:50
CR 6
Gwilym Bowen Rhys ‘Aden’ album launch.
21:50 – onwards
CR 6
Small singaround if the other one gets too full.
Sat, 1 March 2025
Time
Room
Event
09:20 – 9:30
Room 6
vocal warm-up followed by choir
09:30 – 10:30
CR 1
Rescue Songs
09:30 – 10:30
CR 2
Moira Craig's Song Surgery
09:30 – 10:30
CR 3
Songs in Languages & Dialects of the UK
09:30 – 10:30
CR 4
Jeff & Elaine Gillett host Ballad session 1
09:30 – 10:30
CR 5
Andy Turner: songs sung in Kent
09:30 – 10:30
CR 6
Sue Harris’s folk choir 1
10:45 – 11:45
CR 1
Meet Graham Pirt , Scott Gardiner & Ken Hall
10:45 – 11:45
CR 2
Lolly Stick Sing
10:45 – 11:45
CR 3
Songs in Languages & Dialects of the UK
10:45 – 11:45
CR 4
Ballad session 2
10:45 – 11:45
CR5
Moe Keast: a morning in a Cornish pub.
10:45 – 11:45
CR 6
Host Elaine Gillett provides the encouragement to 'Have a go: shy sing'.
12:00 – 13:00
Restaurant
Lunch
13:45 – 15:30
CR 2
Shanties & Such with Sally Wiltshire.
13:45 – 15:30
CR 4
Ballad session 3
13:45 – 15:15
CR 5
Graham Pirt: ‘The Last Shift’
13:45 – 15:30
CR 6
Ornamentation and Lilting with Marianne McAleer
15:45 – 17:00
CR 1
Scott Gardiner hosts bothy ballads, music hall and pub songs
15:45 – 17:00
CR 2
Sally Mounter guides us through your songs of Hard Times.
15:45 – 17:00
CR 3
Lolly stick sing
15:45 – 17:00
CR 4
Ballad session 4
15:45 – 16:45
CR 5
Kirsty Hannah: Mo Ogg, the bard of Coleby.
15:45 – 17:00
Connections 2
Sound check
17:30 – 18:30
Restaurant
Dinner
19:15 – 21:30
Room 6
Singaround
19:15 – 21:30
Connections 2
Concert: Ken & Peta introduce our festival guests.
21:45 – late
Room 6
Small Singaround, if the other one gets too full
21:45 – late
London Bar
Music session
21:45 – late
Edinburgh Bar
Jolly Big Singaround
Sun, 2 March 2025
Time
Room
Event
09:20 – 9:30
CR 6
Vocal warm up for choir
09:30 – 10:30
CR 2
Take us on a journey - include places.
09:30 – 10:30
CR 3
Songs for a day of rest
09:30 – 10:30
CR 4
Ballad session 5
09:30 – 11:15
CR 5
Ken & Peta: 30 years of the Musical Traditions Club.
09:30 – 10:30
CR 6
Sue Harris’s folk choir 2
10:45 – 11:45
CR 1
John Bowden & Vic Shepherd present 'The Fowke Tradition - Canadian collector Edith Fowke and some of her most important source singers'.
10:45 – 11:45
CR 2
Singaround
10:45 – 11:45
CR 3
Songs in Languages & Dialects of the UK with Scott Gardiner
10:45 – 11:45
CR 4
Marianne McAleer hosts Ballad session 6
12:00 – 13:00
Restaurant
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
CR 1
Earth, Wind & Fire: songs for a time of turbulence
13:30 – 15:00
CR 3
Have a go: shy sing
13:30 – 15:00
CR 4
Malcolm Austen hosts Music Hall & Pub songs
13:30 – 15:00
Connections 2
Lazy Sunday Concert: Graham Pirt introduces festival guests’ Come all Ye.
15:30 – 17:00
Edinburgh Bar
Farewell sing
17:30 – 18:30
Restaurant
Dinner, if you've booked it
19:30 – 21:30
Edinburgh Bar
Survivors' Session, if you’re staying over.