Singing The Growing Year

Do you have a desire to sing the cycles of the turning year with others, surrounded by nature?

This singing workshop gathers a crop of folk and nature songs to celebrate the edible plants and fruit trees in Morrab Gardens and the Gardeners House. We will sing first in the Garden Workshop before taking a wander outside to sing easy to learn songs with plants and trees along the way.

There will also be ritual songs for sowing, planting and harvest. These can be practical – work songs, fun songs which teach the growing process, or they can be magical, and full of folklore. The Wassail is an example of this, a ritual which treats the apple tree as a sentient being needing nourishment, protection and waking up from its winter sleep.

Come and be part of a morning rekindling the song lines and ceremonies connecting us with our food and the work and care it takes to grow it. Perhaps you have a song you’d like to bring to the harvest!

The workshop will be led by Kelsey Michael:

Kelsey brings her folk and nature choir ‘Folk Tree’ to local festivals and to events at our Penwith growing projects to aid with the celebration of the season and the growing of food, folk culture and community. She has a long association with Bosavern Community Farm, St Just, for whom she wrote the song A Meadow for a spring seed sowing ceremony. She is also a singer songwriter whose album Lethowsow is out on Dimple Discs Bandcamp.