The Umbrella Fair,

The Racecourse Northampton,

Sat.13th(12-11pm) & Sun.14th of Aug 2011(12-9pm)

FREE!

This weekend the Bardic Chair Northampton will be hosting, for the third year running, the Spoken Word Space at the fantastic community environmentalist free festival; The Umbrella Fair !

Over the newly expanded two day festival the Bardic Cahir will be palying host to a variety of spoken word and accoustic acts.

On the bill so far:

Saturday-The Scribal Gathering Crew will be rocking over from Stony Stratford to take over our tent and give us poetry from the likes of their host Richard Frost and music from the lovely Nikki and Naomi

We will also hopefully be welcoming our new Bard Caroline Hussey-Baines into the Bardic fold with an official inaugauration ceremony and a showcase faeturing her and the previous two Bards of Northampton Joe Bunn and Donna Scott.

And joining us for a brief showcase of what they do we'll be getting some of the Love Poet's; (Northampton's latest spoken word darlings) to join us led by April's dawn.

We'll also have a performance from the Bardic Chair's very own Jim-Tom Say? and later on we'll be livening things up a bit with our Time Travel Disco with sets from D.J. Good cop/Bad cop and B.B, Rex so come and have a boogie!

On Sunday we'll be starting the day with a midday Sunday service with the Reverend Joe B. Humbled, Dr Mark Beaumont and Pastor Farai, followed by heavenly music from the divine Helen Verril.

We'll also have campside tales and tunes from festival veteran and Bardic Contest entrant Ken Gibbons and stories from Alex Ultradish!

Later we'll have some more groovy mellow tunes from D.J. Charity Shop and special guests.

Your hosts over the two days will be the irrrascable Jim-Tom Keith, the irrepressable Justin Thyme and the irreversable Joe Bunn!

Throughout both days they'll be open mic slots for poets story-tellers, singer/songwriters, rappers and comedians.                  So bring your words whatever they mat be and lets raise environmental awareness and celebrate our fantastic community in these troubled times!                                           Look forward to seeing you there! WORD!!!!!