Folk on the Park
Sky is cerulean blue, filled with the appealing screech (who would have thought those words would appear together?) of swifts and martens. Must be summer… and time for a Shropshire festival. Folk on...
View ArticleWenlock Festival
WENLOCK FESTIVAL was a haze of summer skies, screeching swifts and rooks squabbling in the twilight. Lovely audiences plumped on strawberries and ice cream – awash with tea and Pimms, willing us on to...
View ArticleMoon Dappling a Night Garden
MOON DAPPLING A NIGHT GARDEN An improvisation for a warm evening by Rob Carolan (hang drum) and Jonathan Day (alto). Played in the forest hall at Mellowcroft in the Welsh mountains. Cover image by Ed...
View ArticleBOOK LAUNCH Gig & exhibition at 86’d Gallery, Ironbridge
Gig and exhibition at 86’d gallery, Ironbridge launching a new book of tour photos. Private view this Wednesday x
View ArticleBooklaunch/ Exhibition/ Gig for ‘Postcards from the Road’ at 86’d Gallery
“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” A WONDERFUL time at 86’d GALLERY, stuck in a high window looking over the late-lit Severn, each side...
View ArticleShrewsbury Poetry book launch for ‘Postcards’
THERE’S A SAYING I LIKE that every show is about the audience. Shrewsbury Poetry curated by Liz Lefroy this week had one of the warmest and most engaged I’ve encountered in a long time. It was a joy to...
View ArticleThai Tour – Wunderbar and Zoo
Gigs at Zoo club, Pra Nathong and with Ross Ainslie (Salsa Celtica), Alice Orton, Mick Callan and Nigel Richards (IndiaAlba) at Wunderbar in Pra Arthit Today is the day of the winter wind. My friend...
View Article‘Fairytale of New York’ with members of the Old Dance School, the Urban Folk...
A wild wind is blowing from the Welsh Mountains, finding the cracks in my quiet house. The small bells of Sheinton Church are ringing in the blackness – must be Christmas Eve… x
View ArticleLumenvisum show – Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
來自路上的名信片 Postcards from the Road Jonathan Day 18.4 – 28.5.2015 開幕酒會 Opening Reception 18.04.2015 (六 Sat) 4 – 6 pm 藝術家講座 Artist‘s Talk 18.04.2015 (六 Sat) 3 – 4 pm Jonathan Day 出生的那一年,Robert Frank...
View ArticleSummer festivals: Landed, Wenlock Poetry, Radnor, Workhouse, Festival at the...
LANDED FESTIVAL Lovely time at LANDED FESTIVAL… very chilled late afternoon gig, with beautifully languorous people sitting and lying around. They were very kind in their attention. New album is not...
View Article44th HONG KONG ARTS Festival – MORE THAN FOLK at CITY HALL presented by Bird...
44th Hong Kong Arts Festival – More than Folk presented by Bird Time Jazz Club and Hong Kong Folk Club More than Folk 1 ONNAGATA, CANTICLE and NORTHERN SKY PONCHARTRAIN, CAFE IN THE VALLEY OF THE FIRE...
View ArticlePerformance in Iona Abbey cloister – a song about wilderness, old wisdom and...
8th century celtic poetry, translated, woven into a song and performed in the beautiful ancient Iona Abbey cloister. A song from the white sands and azure sea about wilderness, old wisdom and hope.
View ArticleNational Poetry Day – performance film
Delightful experience with Shrewsbury Poetry at the LOFT, Milk Street, Shrewsbury debuting a number of new pieces, including this : ) HYMN National poetry day ’16 Shrewsbury Poetry
View ArticleCyprus and Parliament – cross party committee on music
Busy schedule this trip – Oxford, Cyprus and Parliament in a little over a week : ) Visual feast to begin with at the Bodleian and the Byzantine studies institute in OXFORD showing hidden gospels of...
View ArticleVagabond Language tour ’17
Evelyn Waugh captures the evanescence of song so beautifully in these lines from Brideshead Revisited: Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and...
View ArticleMusic and Myth Festival ’17, Thailand – the dim lit subterranea of the...
Wat Arun – the Temple of the Dawn Bangkok sits on water – half flooded half of the time, calf deep water in the streets, water on the railways, water in the temples, water between the graves. The...
View ArticleA Spirit Wife tour 2018
2018 A SPIRIT WIFE TOUR 24/3 – WORLDBRIDGER, Llanrhaedr (Ugandan permaculture benefit) https://tinyurl.com/y8vevwcn 31/3 EOSTRE fest Y Dolydd 4/4 REGGAE INNOVATION, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire...
View ArticleFOLK RADIO interview
Recent interview with Folk Radio Uk, click the image to view : ) birch tree, wind and cloud
View ArticleSummer festivals: Landed, Radnor, Workhouse, Festival at the Edge
LANDED FESTIVAL Lovely time at LANDED FESTIVAL… very chilled late afternoon gig, with beautifully languorous people sitting and lying around. They were very kind in their attention. New album is not...
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