Schumacher Centenary Festival
Schumacher Centenary Festival - Saturday 8<sup>th</sup> October
A celebration of the life and vision of E.F. Schumacher, pioneer of green economics and one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers. Speakers include Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, founder of the climate crisis campaigning 350.org Bill McKibben, champion of the rights of nature Polly Higgins, co-founder of Transition Towns Rob Hopkins, Radio 4 performance poet Matt Harvey - and many others.
Tickets for the festival include the 7.30pm Small World concert, but if you're only free in the evening you can get a ticket for the evening festivities only
Small World concert, 7.30pm
The Schumacher celebration will culminate in a very special evening concert which will see top flight music artists from Africa, Asia and the UK converging on Colston Hall.
The vibrant line up will feature one of the world’s finest percussionists - the multi-Grammy winning, Indian master musician Trilok Gurtu - in an exclusive UK appearance. Senegal’s outstanding exponent of the 21-stringed kora, Seckou Keita , will make a triumphant return to Colston Hall where he last appeared with Youssou N’Dour in 2002 while Johnny Kalsi’s dynamic The Dhol Foundation with their thundering Dhol drum sound, will show just why their bhangra music has gone down a storm with audiences around the world.
The concert will also feature one of the UK’s finest singer-songwriters, Patrick Duff .The Bristol-based artist and former lead singer of chart-topping alternative rock band Strangelove, is performing at Colston Hall following a European tour.
The final act on stage will be Jamie Smith’s Mabon (JSM) – the high energy InterCeltic band from Wales whose last recording was voted Best Instrumental Album of 2010 in the Spiral Awards and who prompted a standing ovation at their Colston Hall debut this spring at the Bristol Folk Festival. www.jamiesmithsmabon.com
Bringing colour and driving rhythms to Colston Hall foyer during the evening will be Colores de Colombia with their exuberant dances and melodies from Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Interwoven voices, tambores, flutes and guitars revive a rich culture with mixed roots in African, indigenous Indian and European influences.
The concert starts at 7.30pm and tickets cost £15 with concessions (under 25s and pensioners) at £10. For more information on the concert line-up visit the official Schumacher Society site.
Schumacher Centenary Festival
A celebration of the life and vision of E.F. Schumacher featuring talks from Caroline Lucas, Satish Kumar, Bill McKibben, Polly Higgins, Matt Harvey and performances from Jamie Smith's Mabon, The Dhol Foundation, Patrick Duff, Seckou Keita and an exclusive UK appearance by Trilok Gurtu. Plus foyer appearances by Colores de Colombia.
