As mentioned yesterday, here is the full trailer for The Spirit of Albion the Movie, a film about hope, inspired by and including the music of Damh the Bard. Due to be released on DVD in May 2012. Now you can really get a feeling for where the film is going and what it is about – superb stuff!

As you know this movie was inspired by the works of Damh the Bard and the Director, Gary Andrews, has put the whole story together into something new and astounding, something with a powerful message for today’s youth and we are so excited to see the film’s launch sometime around the end of 2011.

The Albion Diaries tell the Behind the Scenes story of the production of the Spirit of Albion movie. Marq English of MEV Productions is producing these video diaries of the film’s production, so you can get some idea of what’s coming and how it has all been put together.

Video Diary Filmed and Edited by Marq English.

Written and Directed by Gary Andrews.

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Caer Drewyn, Corwen, Wales Pic: http://www.corwen.org/

Walkers are invited to the hillfort of Caer Drewyn, Corwen (Denbighshire, Wales), as part of the Festival of British Archaeology. Known locally as Mynydd y Gaer, the fort is unique in the area as its ramparts (walls) are made up of stone, unlike others on neighbouring hills and the Clwydian Range. This hillfort is thought to date to the Iron Age, about 2,500 years ago.

Caer Drewyn continued to be used long after the Iron Age had ended – legend is that it was used by Owain Gwynedd (a self proclaimed King of Wales) as a camp whilst Henry II was encamped on the Berwyn Mountains.
The guided walk will include a live voice commentary for, in particular, experienced visually impaired walkers. A minibus will leaves from Loggerheads Country Park at 10am returning at 4pm. Other events in Denbighshire’s countryside throughout the Festival of British Archaeology included a guided walk around Moel Famau Country Park on Tuesday, July 27 . The next Access for All event will be held on August 10, when people will be guided on a second Live Commentary Voice Trail at Moel Famau from 2-3.30pm. Call Colin Antwis of Fieldsman Trails on 01352 756202.
For more information or to book, call Loggerheads Country Park on 01352 810614, email loggerheads.countrypark@denbighshire.gov.uk or visit festival.britarch.ac.uk

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This is the Autumn Equinox Holiday Special, and we’re also bringing you (in association with Druidcast and Damh the Bard), a special Lecture by Prof. Dr. Roland Rotherham on "The Ladies of the Grail". Dr Rotherham is an acknowledged expert and scholar in the legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. In this wonderful talk he revels how the ladies of the Grail have considerably more importance in the legends than the Knights themselves! Not a talk to be missed!

In typical Celtic fashion, he explains how the Grail is one of *three* items of great importance and reveals that the origins of the Grail Legends may be a lot older than previously thought. Not only is he extremely knowledgeable but also an extremely entertaining lecturer.

We round off the show with three pieces of Arthurian music and gratefully pass our thanks on to Damh and Dr. Rotherham for their respective permissions to use this material. We hope you enjoy this treat as much as we did!

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 Gary & Ruth

Paul Newman is an extremely funny, comedy musician. He describes himself as an acoustic musician with pretensions towards Acting, Comedy and Philosophy. Whilst we were at the Anderida Gorsedd Conference, he managed to corner Ruthie and interview her. Watch out for brief appearances at the end by Gary and Damh the Bard.

You can find out more about Paul on his blogsite or his music on ReverbNation.

This is the third and final part in the Saga of Manannan which contains two stories. The first, the Tale of Laegaire, tells of a visit of a great warrior to the Realm of the Undying who given the chance refuses to return to Erin. The second tale, the Tale of Tadg and the Three Duns or Castles tells the tale of the voyage of Tadg amongst Manannan’s Islands and his encounter with the three great Halls in the Many-Coloured Land.

This is also the last episode in the Irish Mythological Cycle and the tale of Tadg rounds off the tale by returning our vision back to Four Islands in the Otherworld, perhaps the very same islands from which the Tuatha De Danaan came from to settle the land of Erin.

We have recently been fortunate enough to have upgraded several of our Redcording Studio’s most important items – but guess who has now got to learn how to use them most effectively? That’s right I mention it because you might notice that this episode has the dubious honour of being possibly the show with both the highest quality and some of the worst sound artefacts. They shouldn’t interefere with your enjoyment of the story too much and if they do, I apologise. I definitely feel as though I am at the beginning of learning my craft!

Having said that, the future looks rosy! We are now working on a Summary Show for the Irish Mythological Cycle and invite you to send in your comments about what we have all observed (voice feedback is favourite – then everyone can hear it!) by the 15th August, which should give me enough time to put it all together for that show. Then after that, we’ll be working on an introduction for the Welsh Mythology series. Let’s hope you all enjoy that too! The other news we bring you in the show is that we planning a Festival Report (that was the surprise we hinted at in the announcement for the last show!) So that will be something different for us and we hope you enjoy that one too!

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Gary & Ruth

OK, well you know what we mean by a tour! Basically, we go to an event and have fun and then tell you all about it. Do you remember we posted about the Canterbury Faerie Festival? It was a two-day festival and we went to the second day. We missed the amazing Pentacle Drummers and the Parade, but we caught some amazing music and saw some absolutely fascinating things on display. So what did we see?

There must have been over 50 stalls set up in the Hall, with some wonderful craftsmen and some of the most famous fairy artists showing their wares. There was a man I talked to who was inspired to carve walking sticks; intricate and beautiful. Jewelery makers, leather goods (with astounding Celtic design on them) and such wonderful artists as Linda Ravenscroft, Esther Remmington, Josephine Wall and Cerri Lee (Partner to Damh the Bard). We hope to bring you some galleries by these talented ladies later on. Everywhere you looked there were fairies of all ages and sizes and Ruthie and I were persuaded to have our faces painted by some very talented fairies, the Phizzog girls and Sparkle!

We met some lovely people and I’d like to say a big hello, thank you and wave at those listeners who came up and said ‘Hi’. It was wonderful to meet you all and it really made the day for us! Thank you. We also saw some very powerful and stirring music being played. Damh the Bard was there as well as Kim Thompsett – and hopefully you’ll recognise these guys from the Show. Also appearing were Lyz Le Fay, highly talented lady called Electra doing some belly-dancing and Alquimia, who are famed for their atmospheric medieval and Celtic folk music.

Damh the Bard

Damh The Bard is a wonderful musician whose folk music combines elements of all the best folk and whose songs often contain a strong mythological theme. Show listeners will be very familiar with his work – he is much loved. His set included many of his classics and I think we might have had a preview of a track from his new album during his sound check? He belted these wonderful tunes out with such raw emotion and conviction that he soon had the whole hall singing along with him. He even demonstrated the Druidic power of rain-making inside the hall

Kim Thompsett

The Kim Thompsett band entertained us with some absolutely beautiful arrangements. Kim’s ethereal vocals accompanied by the intricate guitar work of Dave, the soft, stirring percussion of Andy and Naomy’s cello providing a solid bass gave us a set of magical pieces. Kim has appeared on our show before and it was great to hear the tracks we played on the Show from her album Songs from the Uglee Meadow played live.

All in all it was a great day out – and we’ll certainly do our best to go next year!