Drumbeat August 2009
‘TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST’, SAYS PETER AT THE P.O.
SO HURRY ALONG IF YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS
To remind you, this Dartmoor-based group evoke of the spirit of Medieval Europe with music, masks and dance, bringing to life images based on paintings of the period, carvings and literature. Come and enjoy them playing exotic period instruments and accompanying the beautiful voice of soprano Siona Stockel and dancer Ricardo Barros. Their programme will include up-tempo ballatas and foot stomping dances from the courts of 14th century Italy, pilgrim songs from 13th century Spain and beguiling love songs from France.
Tickets at £8 (side aisles and rear) and £10 (centre pews), with £2 concessions for under 16s, are still available from Lympstone Post Office, or you can ring 01395 263928
AT 7.30PM ON SEPTEMBER 4TH IN THE PARISH CHURCH
Doors open at 7pm: no bar, but you can enjoy FREE GLASS OF WINE OR JUICE in the interval
And if you choose to come in period garb, as we understand a number will, so much the better!
COME TO THE MEDIEVAL PAGEANT & FAYRE, AND SEE US THERE
On Saturday 26th September, starting at 2pm, there is to be a procession from the Globe Inn to the Church and then into the Glenhaven Orchard next door (NOT Candy’s Field as we mistakenly published in the last Drumbeat) where the Lympstone Entertainments barker will be beating his drum to greet you. We hope to provide some ancient merriment for our younger friends, sell lots of tickets to future events to everyone else, and recruit more FLEAs to help as ‘roadies’ for our shows. In fact you can put your name down as a FLEA helper (who qualify for free entry to any events where they are ‘on duty’) here and now by sending an email to me on jet@lympstoneentertainments.co.uk
OCTOBER’S BIG EVENT WILL BE THE RETURN VISIT OF THE WONDERFUL
BRIDGE STRING QUARTET OF LONDON - SATURDAY 17TH IS THE DATE
PLEASE PAY A REGULAR VISIT OUR NEW, HUGELY IMPROVED WEBSITE
One of our very first FLEA volunteers, Bryony Snell, is a web designer who offered to wave her professional magic wand over our website. We want to thank her most sincerely for all the imagination and effort she has put into the task (wave a wand indeed!). It will ‘go live’ in a day or two. The address is unchanged, still: www.lympstoneentertainments.co.uk Do take a look.
Navigation is far easier than before. You’ll be able to see what events are ahead, when and where; be reminded of past events; follow links to performers’ own websites; and we are adding a new section STREET POETRY, which Harland briefly introduces now:
The poems that littered the streets of Lympstone this summer were random droppings. They had to be short, and instantly understood – nobody would loiter for long. Some were grouped in themes. Wimbledon provoked some tennis poems, the coming of June some summer poems, three breakfast poems were accompanied by a teatime lyric. On the 65th anniversary of D Day we posted Seamus Heaney’s powerful, unsettling Anahorish 1944. Some of you suggested poems and we had two poems from Lympstone poets: Ralph Rochester’s Cormorant and, to round things off, Nick Shirley’s Slurping peaches in the bow.
Several of you have asked for an anthology. Now there is one online. It does not print the poems still in copyright but, at the end, we suggest where you can find them – and of course there’s always Google.
The full version of Harland’s introduction appears online
The poems when and where they appeared
| Saturday | At the top of the village | At the bottom of school hill | Outside the Post Office | Opposite the Surgery |
| 9th May | Youth & Age S. T. Coleridge |
It is not growing Ben Jonson |
Mrs Darwin Carol Ann Duffy |
A bit averse Jonathon Treyer |
| 16th May | Gather ye rosebuds Robert Herrick | Their Lonely Betters W. H. Auden |
Cormorant RalphRochester |
We’ll go no more a-roving Lord Byron |
| 30th May | When June is Come Robert Bridges | Apples Margaret Toms |
Sumer is icumen in Anon |
Shall I compare thee William Shakespeare |
| 6th June | They are not long Ernest Dowson | Anahorish 1944 Seamus Heaney |
Rose thou art sick William Blake |
My luve is like a red red Rose Robert Burns |
| 13th June | Good Appetite Mark van Doren |
Breakfast Wilfrid Gibson |
Bacon & Eggs Paul Farley |
In a Bath teashop John Betjeman |
| 20th June | Golden Slumbers Thomas Dekker | Western Wind Anon |
A Celtic Riddle Exeter Book of Riddles |
The Night has 1000 eyes Francis Bourdillon |
| 27th June | It matters not J. B. Downie |
A Subaltern’s Love Song John Betjeman | 40 – Love Roger McGough |
At Lord’s Francis Thompson |
| 4th July | Bad Report Spike Milligan |
Bare Back Riding Mike Jubb |
The Swallows are here! Alcaeus | Spring is Sprung Anon |
| 11th July | The Garden Vita Sackville-West |
from Paradise Lost John Milton |
Glory of the Garden Rudyard Kipling |
The Garden Andrew Marvell |
| 18th July | Amulet Ted Hughes |
Appearances Humphrey Clucas |
The Plain Facts Ruth Pitter |
Lyonnesse Thomas Hardy |
| 25th July | Considering the Snail Thom Gunn | Tall Nettles Edward Thomas |
Pied Beauty G M Hopkins |
Slurping peaches Nick Shirley |
