Education and children's events
Education
Following a successful debut in 2005, we make every effort to secure grant funding to stage a festival education programme for local community groups. The programme will feature workshops in music, dance, singing, drama and storytelling.
The Festival education programme has, in past years, been generously supported by The King Henry VIII Endowed Trust, Warwick District Council Arts Development Service, Arts Council England - West Midlands, The Mrs Godfrey Payton Trust and the Austin Edwards Charity Trust. See the Sponsors page for more information on this year's supporters as they are agreed.
Warwick Folk Festival's Singing Safari
You can use the link above to see and hear what we've done in the past. Please be aware that because of the sound files, this page takes a while to load!
Watch this space! - We hope that Warwick Folk Festival's own world choir will once again be performing at the Festival - and you could be part of it!
If we are successful in gaining funding to stage the Singing Safari again, we will post details of practice sessions here.
Children's Events
Warwick Folk Festival provides a wide range of fantastic activities for children - see below some of the artists already booked. A full programme of children's events will be available here nearer the festival date.
Jan Edgecombe's Blackboard Van
Play pirates, play music with plastic tubes, dress up and play imaginary games, draw on the Blackboard Van - what you do is up to you! Jan's Van is a hit at festivals up and down the country, not just with children but with lots of adult onlookers too.
Panic Circus
Professor Panic's circus tent is always busy with children trying to walk on stilts, juggle balls, toss diablos - in short, enjoying themselves.
These anarchic clowns are all experienced children's entertainers and provide a range of workshops to amuse children of all ages.
The Great Bonzo & Doris
An exclusive use of prop based comedy by this mad cap duo. Material visualized by Bonzo in his dreams and lovingly collected together over the last decade to form a menagerie of comedy. Well what can we say! Pure Genius? Thoroughly entertaining? Brilliant comedy? Or down right rubbish? Life Defying. Seeing is believing.
Keith Donnelly
... stand-up comic, fall-down comedian, surreal snigger-songwriter, guitar-hero, performance-artist, [tall] story-teller, philophoser, scriptwriter, [none can] compere, man-of-mystery, inner-childminder, actor, stuntman, metaphysical-poet, human ping-pong ball, life and soul of the [kids] party, world-class athlete, leading socialite, raconteur, business tycoon, wit, author, half-wit, secret[sh!]-agent, [vauxhall] astral-traveller, shamen, geordie-cultural-attache, word-juggler,snake-charmer, underline-dancer,unexpected clairvoyant, dream-weaver, daydream believer, psycho-linguist, shark-wrangler, smile sculptor, [compulsive] lying-tamer, Great-British eccentric, [alleged] international-jewel-thief, hot-dog-skier, alien-abductee, zen grand-master, champion tiddly-winker, sandancer, friend to the pantomime horse, erstwhile slice of bacon, and all-round good egg.
