RIVENSTONE 2007
Sacred World Music Festival on Dartmoor

Rivenstone Festival 2007 was a great success. We were blessed with one of the first warm and bright weekends of the summer and a glorious full moon.

Performers from all over the planet arrived on Dartmoor for this festival sharing their extraordinary music and culture. A series of intensive workshop took place on the Monday of the event for those who wished to journey deeper into these ancient traditions.

Although the whole event was filmed we have been unable to make time to produce a finished film of the event. We will, however, collect some of the footage and make it available to those who are interested in early 2009.

The event raised over £800 for Survival International from donations and sales. Unfortunately the Haida tribal dancers & carvers from west coast Canada did not reach Rivenstone as their car was stolen during their journey from the islands and they lost passports, tickets, and money as well as traditional dance costumes and regalia. Although they were deeply sad not to be able to attend, generous donations from the Rivenstone audience and musicians plus other fundraising activities meant we were able to send over £1000 towards their losses as well as many gifts and messages of support.The latest news is that a letter written by the Rivenstone organisation on behalf of the musicians, presenters and participants, and sent to the airline company in support of the Haida group has resulted in the reimbursment of some part of their flight expenses, for which we would like to extend our thanks. We hope that Ralph Stocker and his group wll be able to travel to the UK at a future time to share their ancient island culture.

Below are some the photos taken during Rivenstone 2007. We would like to thank Chris Chapman, Sue Murphy and Claire & Matt Tinnyunt for the use of these images.

PHOTO GALLERY		SATURDAY 25TH AUGUST
Asaela	Nubian musicians from Eygpt	Allahdin
Hiroki	Music and dance from Japan	Minalu
Dawa	Shelok Tsering from Tibet	Phuntsok
Marlui Miranda from Brazil	Watching a daytime performance	Making clay ocarinas
PHOTO GALLERY		SUNDAY 26TH AUGUST
Miho from Japan	Guillermo Martinez from Mexico	Michael playing Mongolian music
	The Song Rivers performance Thirteen women from many lands
	The festival sings 'Song Rivers'
A new instrument	Gong reflections	Decorating an ocarina
Scott & Sue from Dragonfly Moon	Praying for the Rain	Rigantona with medieval music
	Julie Felix
	Bamboo Cedar Oak