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RealTime is a covers band whose passion is to reproduce rock classics from the 60s and 70s, whilst also performing some more contemporary rock music. The band live in the South East of England, with 3 of the 5 band members living locally in and around Lindfield. They have played together on and off and in various different combinations for many years, mainly at charity events, weddings and parties in London and Sussex.
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DJ Greg has been DJing all over the world since 1990 and started a DJ Training School for kids and adults ages 6+ in 2017. As part of the training school he is very pleased to introduce some of his DJ students playing live at this years Lindfield Arts Festival. You can expect to hear a range of music including Reggae, Pop and House music on the day as well as some Carnival music. We invite you to get your groove on and support the next generation of DJ’s on the high street this September.
Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. The workshops aims to provide a brief introduction for beginners:
Waltz began as a country folk dance in Austria & Bavaria and was introduced in England in the early 19th century. It is a smooth progressive dance characterised by long, flowing movements, continuous turns, and rise & fall.
Quickstep is an English dance and was invented in the 1920s as a combination of faster tempo of foxtrot and the Charleston. It is a fast moving dance, the couples move in short syncopated steps. Quickstep includes the walks, runs, chasses, and turns with some other fast figures such as locks, hops, and skips.
Hosted by Tracy Brooks, Senior Instructor & Principal of Horsham Dancers Club, Tracy has been dancing over 40 years and teaching just over 25 years. She is a Fellow and Examiner for UKAdance and licensed BDC Scrutineer.
All ages welcome, a partner is not essential but desirable.
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Lilia is 6 years old, lives in Lindfield and has been face painting now for 3 years.
This will be her first public event , so please come along to get yours painted for a great charity.. you will go away happy, and if you’re lucky you may even get a lollipop!
Too Many Cooks is a sizzlingly sumptuous show jam packed with tasty tunes, popping puppets and a lot of silly sausages!
Part walkabout and part theatre show, this culinary delight will get your taste buds going. Suitable for Children and their families, aged 0-100. Too Many Cooks from Hand Made Theatre explores the recent boom in food inspired TV shows, festivals and artisan culture of anything from coffee to sausages!
The team will be bring many characters to life through stories and puppetry and a lot of explosive silliness!
HandMade Theatre are excited to be creating a brand new show for summer 2018. Too Many Cooks is a play on the recent boom in food inspired TV shows, festivals and an artisan culture in anything from tea to cheese! In this tasty show we will play with the many characters found in the food industry and bring them to life in a fun and interactive way.
This new show has been commissioned by Applause rural touring and is supported by Arts Council England Grants for The Arts.
Lindfield Drummers, a local African drumming workshop, playing a selection of funky rhythms originating from the west coast of Africa, using original African Djembes for an authentic and exciting experience!
A man is forced out of his home, leaving his friends, family and community. He chooses 10 of his most treasured possessions to take with him to remind him of the life he is leaving behind.
Using humour, stories and circus, this fiercely energetic show looks at what it means to be pushed out of what we know to an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar faces.
Memory Man was commissioned by The Basingstoke Festival and Supported by Arts Council England. The initial production was directed by John Wright and designed by The Flying Butresses. There will be further development on Memory Man in 2018 with support from Applause Rural Touring.
Too Many Cooks is a sizzlingly sumptuous show jam packed with tasty tunes, popping puppets and a lot of silly sausages!
Part walkabout and part theatre show, this culinary delight will get your taste buds going. Suitable for Children and their families, aged 0-100. Too Many Cooks from Hand Made Theatre explores the recent boom in food inspired TV shows, festivals and artisan culture of anything from coffee to sausages!
The team will be bring many characters to life through stories and puppetry and a lot of explosive silliness!
HandMade Theatre are excited to be creating a brand new show for summer 2018. Too Many Cooks is a play on the recent boom in food inspired TV shows, festivals and an artisan culture in anything from tea to cheese! In this tasty show we will play with the many characters found in the food industry and bring them to life in a fun and interactive way.
This new show has been commissioned by Applause rural touring and is supported by Arts Council England Grants for The Arts.
Lindfield Drummers, a local African drumming workshop, playing a selection of funky rhythms originating from the west coast of Africa, using original African Djembes for an authentic and exciting experience!
Paul Cook, aka Didge Tall Paul grew up in a village just outside of Dartford and has lived in Kent for most of his life; and after doing a fair bit of travelling including Australia of course, has now been living in Gravesend with his wife and two children for the past 15 years.
He has been playing didgeridoo for about 25 years and is now considered to be one of the foremost didgeridoo performers in the UK with several appearances on radio stations across the country, television and also producing music in film such as Tom Clancy‘s “Remainder.”
Paul has produced three didgeridoo albums over his many years of playing: Hollow, Raspberry ripple and his latest album 10 tunes from 22 years of tongue twisters.
Paul started making didgeridoos around about the year 2000 and his instruments are widely respected by players across the world. He makes to different styles of didgeridoo. One is with imported wood from Australia which has been termite eaten and then shaped with the use of very long chisels and the other is with a variety of native English would known as split wood didgeridoos.
He has been teaching didgeridoo for many years within Gravesend didgeridoo club which meets every fourth Saturday of the month, runs workshops at a large variety of festivals and visits schools to teach didgeridoo and aboriginal Australian culture. Throughout the year he runs a stall at festivals selling and teaching didgeridoo and many other musical instruments from around the world.
Paul also runs his own festival called elementary didgeridoo Festival which is now in its fourth year, This is a world music Festival with music from Africa, India, Slovakia ,Tibet to name but a few and of course a fair bit of didgeridoo.
For details on all that Paul does you can visit his websites at www.didgetallpaul.co.uk ;
or for the Festival www.elementarydidgefest.com
