Snow On The Wolds w/ Wendy Pratt and Becky Mills

0	FILEY: The Star
P	Friday 3rd December, 2021
N	7:00pm

FILEY: The Star

Friday 3rd December, 2021

7:00pm

Event information

'Snow on the Wolds’, an evening of Yorkshire themed winter music and poetry
7.30pm, Friday 3 December
The Star, Mitford Street, Filey

As the night’s close in, and the festive season creeps ever closer, come and snuggle up at the Star with an evening of song and poetry. Let two of North Yorkshire’s most talented artists take you on a journey across snowy hills and down dark roads. Let the fire crackle in the grate and the sleet lash at the window, with an evening of warming winter themed music and poetry from Becky Mills and Wendy Pratt.

The evening is brought to you by Filey Literature Festival and the lovely people at the Star pub. It is a first collaboration for the festival and the pub, as well as the first collaboration between Becky and Wendy! An evening not to be missed. Tickets are priced at just £10 and are available in person from Filey Post Office or online by emailing christopherlee218@yahoo.co.uk

Becky Mills

Hailing from the wild moorlands of North Yorkshire, singer-songwriter Becky Mills brings a uniquely personal and touching slant to the modern folk genre. With a foot in both contemporary & classic traditions, her evocative songs take the listener through topics encompassing love, loss, motherhood, emigration, the regrets of old age, the nature of heroism, grief during wartime - even the joy of running away to the circus! - a kaleidoscope of subjects, but always with wit, humour, charm and feeling. Becky has supported acts such as Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Barbara Dickson. Her breakthrough album ‘Dandelion’ was released in 2013 to rave reviews. In 2018 the follow up ’Tall Tales and Home Truths’ was released and in 2020 Becky released "A Midwinter Miscellany" as one third of a trio with Ashley Hutchings and Blair Dunlop.

Wendy Pratt

Scarborough born poet Wendy Pratt lives just outside Filey. She worked as a biomedical scientist for thirteen years before becoming a full time writer. Wendy is widely published in journals and magazines, as well as being an award winning poet. She was highly commended in the Forward Prize 2015 and also won both the YorkMix and Prole laureate poetry competitions in 2015. Her first pamphlet, Nan Hardwick Turns into a Hare and her first full collection, Museum Pieces, were both published by Prolebooks. Her latest pamphlet, Lapstrake, was published by Flarestack Poets. She has a full collection, Gifts the Mole Gave Me published by Valley Press. In 2017 Wendy’s poem The God of Small Things was highly commended in the Manchester cathedral Prize. You can find details of her readings on the readings page. In 2020 Wendy was shortlisted in the Alpine Fellowshipwriting prize. Wendy was one of the winners of the Poetry Businessbook and pamphlet competition. Her third full collection When I Think of My Body as a Horse will be published by The Poetry Business in March 2021.