Wood HQ – the team behind the award-winning Wood Festival, a sell out success in May – have created something new for lovers of music and creativity: SeptemberSong Tickets: www.woodhq.org/buy-tickets-all-events
Septembersong, taking place this year on 6-8th September at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. Because who wants the summer to end so soon?
The big idea behind Septembersong is to celebrate song, creativity and connection. The principles behind the Wood Festival remain at the core – connecting with nature, running events in the most sustainable way possible and building community through music and the arts.
Septembersong is about connecting with each other, through song and meditation, through walking and talking, listening and and keeping still. There will be plenty of music, great local food and drink, after-hours dancing, seasonal cocktails and a campfire sing-a-long, in the beautiful surrounds of Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.
After last year’s event featured artists including Michele Stodart (Magic Numbers) and Jody Stephens of 70s legends Big Star, this year will see intimate musical performances from:
Danny and the Champions of the World, one of the country’s best-loved live bands and multiple UK Americana Award winners, who are about to return with a ground-breaking new album on Loose Music.
Lunatraktors, creators of MOJO Magazine Top Ten Folk Albums in 2019 & 2021, with what they describe as ‘weird musical performances in the Anglo-Celtic tradition.’
Dan Whitehouse, who continues to renew, reinvent and reimagine – touching listeners with his observations and moving them with his sensitivity and impeccable songwriting.
Dan will also be leading a songwriting workshop, in association with Company of Song, called ‘Song Fishing’, designed to connect with your inner child and focus on the activities of writing as a playful experience, a kind of performance in itself.
Pete Astor, the songwriter behind Creation Records legends The Loft and The Weather Prophets, and more recently Ellis Island Sound and The Wisdom of Harry.
Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou, a husband and wife duo who have recently restarted their much-loved musical partnership.
Hannah White, another UK Americana Award winner and founder of London’s cherished independent venue the Sound Lounge.
And after last year’s acclaimed live recreation of Neil Young’s ‘Harvest’ LP, this year Robin and Joe Bennett, the musical brothers who host the event, will be putting together an all-star live performance of ‘Grievous Angel’ by Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris, 50 years after it was first released.
As well as musical performances, the event features interviews with songwriters, community singing workshops and campfire singalongs for all to participate, yoga and meditation, an ‘old ways makerspace’, and local food and drink.
Old Ways Makerspace
The Old Ways Makerspace consists of demonstrations, exhibitions, workshops, talks, and activities to introduce and/or remind us all of time-honoured methods of making, doing and being that work in collaboration with nature and each other. It is about reawakening to the delicate web we inhabit, and understanding that what we do affects everyone and everything. Activities already confirmed for 2024 include basket-weaving, barefoot walks and forest-bathing, sourdough breadmaking, and ‘circling’ (authentic relating).