
The Wodwose
The Wodwose are the WVRF music ensemble and Festival band.
They will be appearing throughout the festival, at many of our events, bringing music, merriment and more.
The band leader is street band veteran Tim Hill who is also curating the Sound Forest as part of Merry Monmouth Day on Saturday 4 May 12pm-5pm at Drybridge Park, Monmouth, NP25 5AS. To find them, just follow the music…!
About the band
The Wodwose are specialists in big street band, joyful tunes and processions, as well as ambient evocative vibes in abbeys and woodlands. The trio weave together improvisations, folk traditions, spells, jazz and songs and rituals to create their own dreamtime sounds.
They play in the woods and in the landscape, in the street and on stages and lead processions. They also lead and inspire larger ensembles, workshops and work with artists, storytellers and singers.
They will be playing grooves from New Orleans and around the world and music inspired by own traditions. It is a music for everyone, a music for parades, processions, for weddings and funerals, for dancing, for protest, display and ceremony.
The band is led street band veteran Tim Hill, includes the leading jazz trumpet Stuart Henderson and young drummer and percussionist Jo Meikle.
Tim is festival director of The Sound of the Streets, a charity promoting street bands and street music and supporting young people to play this inspiring music.
He has been musical director for many outdoor arts companies, including Cirque Bijou, Liverpool Lantern Company, Macnas and Walk the Plank. He has helped start many street bands around the country including The Big Noise in Taunton, The Horns of Plenty in Oxford, the Exeter Street band and the Frome Street Bandits.
His band Tongues of Fire is one of the UK’s leading street bands. He considers street bands to be one of the musical wonders of the world, the sound of celebration from Monmouth to Mumbai, Columbia to Coleford and Houston to Hereford.
Guest player
Lyndon Owen is a saxohanist and musician, he curates “NAWR Aberystwyth” concert series, and is Chair of ‘Gwrandewch’, a community arts group whose aim is to bring free world class, new music to Ceredigion. He plays a wide variety of folk wind instruments from Wales, Europe and the Middle East. He is Chair of ‘Music In Monmouth‘, a similar group for Monmouthshire and makes music products for people with Dementia and other cognitive problems.
Lyndon will appear as a guest as part of Songs and Sighs of Earth and Sky on Saturday 4 May at 7.30pm, Church of Saint Thomas the Martyr, St Thomas’ Square, Overmonnow, NP25 4ES
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