MAPLEBECK: The Village Hall

Friday 3rd June, 2016

7:30pm

Event information

DARREN HAYMAN is a prolific singer-songwriter, intrigued by our relationships with places and armed with the idiosyncratic eye of a Shell Guide. Recently he's stepped outside for rural jaunt through Britain's 54 Thankful Villages and will release the first instalment of his enthralling and ambitious new folk project Thankful Villages via Rivertones on 3 June. To accompany the album, Darren will return to one of the Thankful Villages to perform a very special one-off gig at Maplebeck Village Hall on album release date, 3 June. This concert sees him share the fruits of his labours in a live setting, making full use of both a band and projections.

A Thankful Village is a village in Britain where every soldier returned alive from World War I. The writer, journalist and educator Arthur Mee coined the term 'Thankful Village' in his series of guidebooks, The King's England in the 1930s. Darren Hayman visited each of the 54 Thankful Villages and, focussing on village life, made a piece of music and a short film for every one. Some take the form of instrumentals inspired by the location, some are interviews with village residents set to music, others are new songs with lyrics or found local traditional songs.

Maplebeck is situated in the rolling countryside of the Dukeries, in mid-Nottinghamshire. There is a church, a public house, a redundant telephone box, a bus shelter, a post box and a NEW village hall.

The show is free for under 18s but you must book a free ticket and bring proof of age with you.