McMillans together at live broadcast festival
Father and son poets Ian and Andrew McMillan will be swapping poetry and wisdom on the theme of families when they open a seven-day live broadcast festival or words and music in East Leeds.
Live from 13-19 June on www.elfm.co.uk, Live@Chapel is an entirely live broadcast literature and music festival, broadcast through local community radio station ELFM.
Following his claim on Desert Island Discs that he has never worked with his son, ELFM challenged Ian McMillan to devise a piece with Andrew especially for the Live@Chapel festival. Ian and Andrew will be performing on Monday 13 June from 7.30 - ppm.
Live@Chapel starts with a five-day words and literature festival, broadcast live from the atmospheric Seacroft Chapel. Rounding off with an all-night Readathon; 12 readers, with coffee and cake, reciting stories. Live@Chapel then moves seamlessly into a 24-hour Musicathon; 300 musicians playing live from 3pm Saturday 18 June to 3pm Sunday 19 June. Each afternoon the festival will broadcast a programme showcasing the work of East Leeds primary and high schools. Four writers have been working with nine schools in the area. Broadcasting each day from 1pm, the festival also features a late show, The Pulpit, where local playwrights and poets get to air their dramas written especially for the festival.There are still some tickets left for local residents and invited guests to be part of the live audience at the chapel. If you would like to be in the audience, please register for a ticket.
Trevor Wainwright
Mon 13th Jun 2011 18:59
So is Trev Cas' Lad on Tuesday 14 Jun at 3:30 pm. Reading some of his work includiong poems from his recent trip to America.