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Quick summary
- Price
- Pay As You Feel (£3/£5/£7)
- Running time
- 2 hours
- Venue
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- Arts Centre Washington
Additional information
Event description
A special folk-themed Heritage Reels screening to coincide with our Washington Folk Festival.
In Search of the English Folk Song (1997)
Famed filmmaker Ken Russell tours the countryside in search of the roots of the English folk song in this eye-opening documentary. His travels reveal the history of the form, its remnants in modern music and the ways it evolved as it was carried to Ireland and the New World. Performances and interviews with Donovan, Fairport Convention, June Tabor and other artists help illustrate the changing face of English folk music through the centuries.
The film will be followed by a talk – speaker TBC.
Heritage Reels
This screening is part of our Heritage Reels programme – a curated programme of talks
alongside archive films and heritage themed documentaries.
Art Centre Washington’s film programme is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network. Heritage Reels is supported by Yorkshire and North East Film Archive at York St John University.
