Saturday, 11 September 2010, 12pm-12am
Wysing Arts Centre
Fox Road, (near) Bourn
Cambridge, CB23 2TX
Be Glad For The Song Has No End – A Festival of Artists’ Music is a day of live musical performances, film screenings and events, set across three uniquely constructed stages in the grounds of Wysing Arts Centre in rural Cambridgeshire, organised and arranged by artist/musician Andy Holden.
Throughout the day artists will perform their music on the two outdoor stages whilst a program of films and performance that explore music from a more documentary or anthropological perspective take place in the cinema stage.
The festival includes live music from Martin Creed and His Band, Bob and Roberta Smith’s Apathy Band, Long Meg, Juneau Projects, Kaffe Matthews, Sue Tompkins, Owl Project, Die Kunst, Grubby Mitts, Joanna Robertson, Sam Belinfante, The Errorists, Saydance, Babygrand, Bohman Brothers with Richard Thomas, Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra, Ricky Leach, Rude Pravo, Aleksander Kolkowski and many others. DJ sets include Mark Leckey, Junior Aspirin Records, Mark Dean, and Lost Toys Records. Screenings include films by Nico Vascellari, David Blandy, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Matt Stokes, Rob Bidder, Archie Bronson Outfit and Luke Fowler.
Other events scattered around the festival site include Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether’s Reverse Karaoke, Mark Essen’s Record Exchange, An Endless Supply festival program and publication distribution, workshops for children, and an UBUWeb sound-system.
Be Glad For The Song Has No End brings to a close Wysing Arts Centre’s three month long Camp for Improbable Thinking, featuring artists Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Andy Holden, Fabiano Marques, Julie Myers, Emily Rosamond, Studio Weave and Bedwyr Williams.
The festival is supported by Resonance 104.4FM, Lost Toys Records and The Wire magazine, and is made possible by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England East.
For further information on the festival, details of places to stay, transport, and to book tickets visit: www.wysingartscentre.org/news/201 + 44 1954 718 881
Image above:
Andy Holden, Festival Poster (with Pessimism of the
Intellect, Optimism of the Will, melted record bowl), 2010
