CONCERTS and EVENTS for 2009

Here is our schedule for 2009. There will be regular updates so please check regularly for new information.

Bookings for 2009 workshops and concerts are now open ~ please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the events. Some tickets are only available directly from the venue or organisers ~ please see booking information below.

For selected events please click on the icon to go to the tickets page.

For further details about any the events listed below, please contact us directly...

by phone: 01822 880301

by email: info@seventhwavemusic.co.uk

JUNE

JULY

A VERY SPECIAL EVENT...

In July we present the Silver Deer Tour with Tatyana Lar, traditional singer from the nomadic Nenet people of Western Siberia. The concerts will feature the songs of the Nenet reindeer herding tribes combined with the ancient music and songs of Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer, plus workshops with Tatyana and film footage of traditional Nenet life on the Arctic tundra.
For full details see Silver Deer Tour page

4 Saturday
GLASTONBURY, Chalice Well Gardens, Somerset
SILVER DEER FULL MOON CONCERT
Held in beautiful candle-lit Chalice Gardens with Nigel, Carolyn and Tatyana Lar.
Doors open 7pm, concert starts 7.30pm, £12 (£10 concessions)
Information and tickets from venue only ~ 01458 831154 www.chalicewell.org.uk

5 Sunday
GLASTONBURY, Chalice Well Gardens, Somerset
THE NENET OF SIBERIA
Tatyana LaR will share her ancient culture, songs, traditions and spirit stories (assisted by Carolyn, Nigel and Russian translator Ruslan Alikulov). She will teach some Nenet songs including Numd Hynumd (Prayer to Great Noom). In a time when northern tribes are fighting to preserve their lands and culture from global commercial exploitation even as they witness the diminishing of Arctic ice, this is a valuable opportunity to learn about Yamal and its people.
9-11am in tented venue, bookings with venue only on 01458 831154 www.chalicewell.org.uk

5 Sunday
RHYTHMS OF THE WORLD FESTIVAL, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Performance at 4.15pm, St Mary's Stage, with Carolyn, Nigel and Tatyana.
Further details and bookings with the organisers ~ www.rotw.org.uk

10 Friday
FROME FESTIVAL, Frome, Somerset
Evening concert with Nigel, Carolyn and Tatyana. The programme also features Mongolian Khoomi singing from Michael Ormiston and Candida Valentino.
Further details and tickets from the organisers ~ www.fromefestival.co.uk

11 Saturday
DARTMOOR, Lower Merripit Farm, Postbridge
SIBERIA DAY ON DARTMOOR
A very special day of events at Lower Merripit Farm, Postbridge...

Women of the Silver Deer workshop with Carolyn Hillyer and Tatyana Lar
A unique chance to explore and xperience the culture and stories of Siberian nomadic women, learning Nenet songs with Tatyana, making traditional women;s craft and sharing our own offerings of song an ritual to honour our Siberian sisters ( we now will be joined by another Nenets woman, Oksana Knariuchi). 10am-4pm ~ £55 (including vegetarian lunch)


Yaptik / Tundra
Two films by independant Russian directors featuring the culture of the Siberian Nenet tribe and nomadic life on the Arctic tundra. Film showing from 5.30pm ~ included in evening ticket.

Silver Deer Concert
An evening with Nigel Shaw, Carolyn Hillyer and Tatyana Lar
Concert starts 8pm ~ evening ticket £15 ~ tented venue (bring rug or cushion)


The day workshop is a women's event but all other evening ticket holders are welcome to arrive from 5pm onwards. Meadows, woods, gardens, shrines and roundhouse open for wandering adn peaceful enjoyment. Vegetarian dinner plus bar and other refreshments will be provided by the amazing FOOD GROOVE CAFE

12 Sunday
LONDON, Steiner Theatre, 35 Park Road, NW1 6XT.
SILVER DEER EVENING IN LONDON
Concert featuring Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer (Dartmoor) with Tatyana Lar (Siberia) plus guest musicians Michael Ormiston and Candida Valentino (Mongolian Khoomi).
Film showings of Yaptik and Tundra from 6.30pm.
Concerts start 7.30pm ~ tickets £15 ~ cafe and bar ~ Survival International campaign stall.

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JULY/AUGUST

FIRE AND COPPER AT THE GLASTONBURY GODDESS CONFERENCE
The following events take place in the Glastonbury Assembly Rooms.
Bookings and tickets from the organisers 01458 831518 / www.goddessconference.com

28 July - 2 August
HEARTHSTONE: Copper Songs and Illuminating Women
Installation of paintings and sacred totems by Carolyn Hillyer drawn from her cycles of work over the last 13 years.
Exhibition open from Wed-Sat 10-6 (except Thurs afternoon), Sun 10-2, open to all, free entry, prints/CD/drums available.

28 Tuesday
COPPER SONGS AND ILLUMINATING WOMEN (The Long Journey)
Workshop with Carolyn, 10am-4pm, all women welcome, £70 (including £20 materials)
Booking with organisers ~ 01458 831518 / www.goddessconference.com
For full details see women's workshops page

30 Thursday
COPPER SONGS AND ILLUMINATING WOMEN (The Short Journey)
A conference workshop with Carolyn, 2.30-5.30pm, open to conference participants.
Booking with organisers ~ 01458 831518 / www.goddessconference.com

August 2 Sunday
HEARTHFIRE CONCERT
A unique evening concert within the Hearthstone Shrine with Carolyn & Nigel, featuring for the first time the whole of Nigel's Dartmoor Roundhouse flute songs combined with a circle of Carolyn's songs inspired by flame and copper. A concert to honour our ancestral hearth fires, the burnished melodies of life and the illuminating drums.
Concert starts 8pm, tickets £15/£13
Bookings with organisers ~ 01458 831518 / www.goddessconference.com

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AUGUST

7-9
GAUNTS HOUSE SUMMER GATHERING, Wimbourne, Dorset
Evening concert by Nigel and Carolyn (Praying for the Rain are also playing).
Details and tickets from the organisers ~ www.gauntshouse.com

15 Saturday
EXMOOR, Croydon Hall, Minehead
JOURNEY DEEP INTO THE HEART OF REMEMBRANCE RETREAT
Workshops and evening concert with Nigel and Carolyn as part of a five day event.
Bookings and information from organisers ~ 01580 860063 / dragonfly229@hotmail.com
www.yoganature.co.uk

22 Saturday
PIG'S NOSE PUB, East Prawle, Devon - DUBBLEHEAD GIG
Nigels latest dance project with original Global member, Tom Brooks. Uplifting dub/ska/reggae and dance electronica.
Alslo with Ed Brooks (drums and perc), Leaf Hillyer (guitar and electronics), Johnny O'Rouke (trumpet).
Great venue by the sea, camping available. Tickets only on the door. Details www.pigsnose.co.uk

SEPTEMBER

Mid-September
RUSSIA ~ Nigel and Carolyn are offering concerts and workshops in Moscow and Siberia (Salekhard and Yamal Peninsula).
For full details and dates please contact us.

OCTOBER

16 Friday
Hebden Bridge, St Thomas' Church, Heptonstall
AUTUMN CONCERT BY CANDLELIGHTwith Carolyn and Nigel.
Doors open 7.30pm, tickets £10 from Seventh Wave Music.

17 Saturday
MANCHESTER, FUNDRAISING LUNCHTIME CONCERT for the Trafford MacMillan Cancer Care Centre.
Information and tickets from 0161 746 2080.

17 Saturday
Staffordshire, Betley Village Hall, Cheshire border, Main Road, CW3 9BH
AUTUMN CONCERT BY CANDLELIGHT
Organised by the Mandarin Clinic (all profits to support Charlotte who has muscular dystrophy), glass of organic wine included with ticket, refreshments and cakes, concert starts 7.30pm
Tickets £12 from the Mandarin Clinic ~ 07858 101302

NOVEMBER

WILD HILLS: Symphony and Song ~ Concerts to honour Dartmoor

This autumn sees the beginning of a new programme of concerts by Nigel and Carolyn featuring music deeply rooted in the wild and sacred Dartmoor landscape. The concerts will include the first performances from Nigel's new work DARTMOOR SYMPHONY (the third album in his Dartmoor collection) as well as a richly-textured mix of songs and instrumental compositions created by Carolyn and Nigel during their many years within the misted hills and hidden valleys of the moors. There will be a full orchestral premiere of the Dartmoor Symphony during 2010. The concerts feature film visuals of this extraordinary landscape from the new DVD that accompanies this album (filmed by Chris Chapman, produced by Nigel Shaw).

7 Saturday
DEVON, Wharf Arts Centre, Tavistock
WILD HILLS:SYMPHONY AND SONG
A very special concert by Nigel and Carolyn featuring the first performance of the Dartmoor Symphony as part of an evening of music and songs to celebrate the ancient beauty and untamed spirit of the wild land, with visuals from the Dartmoor Symphony film.
Concert starts 7.30pm, bar, tickets £15 (concessions available) from Seventh Wave Music.

13-15
GLASTONBURY, Chalice Well, Somerset
THE CAULDRON OF CROWS: A Winter Journey
Residential retreat weekend for women with Carolyn.
Friday evening to Sunday 6pm, includes 2 nights bed and all meals, £295 (some non-residential places available £225). For full details please see women's workshops page
For bookings contact organisers 01458 831154 / www.chalicewell.org

DECEMBER

5 Saturday
NORWICH, Norwich Puppet Theatre, St. James Church, Whitefriars, Norfolk
WILD HILLS: Symphony and Song
Evening concert with Nigel & Carolyn, 7.30pm, £12
DRUM SONGS FROM THE HEATHEN HILLS sacred drum and chant workshop with Carolyn, 2-5pm, £25, all welcome.
Tickets from Seventh Wave Music or Inanna's Festival ~ 01603 626133 / www.inannasfestival.com

12 Saturday
PENZANCE, Acorn Theatre, Cornwall
WILD HILLS: Symphony and Song
Evening concert with Nigel & Carolyn, 7.30pm, £12
DRUM SONGS FROM THE HEATHEN HILLS women's sacred drum and chant workshop with Carolyn, 2-5pm, £25.
Tickets from Seventh Wave Music or Healing Star 01736 330669

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