Gargrave Autoharp Festival 2014- Arts Council success...

We heard last week that my bid to the Arts Council for funding for the Gargrave Autoharp Festival 2014 was successful. So, success there for the second year in a row.

This is a vote of confidence in UK Autoharps, the Gargrave Village Hall, the Gargrave community and the autoharp community. And certainly gives us a bit of wriggle room. 

There were more complications this year - the application process demanded that there be a lot more information and structure in place. So that the application had to go in much later in the planning process.

We are asked to use the Grant for the Arts logo, as last year...

http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/information-funded-organisations/grant-award-logo-and-guidelines/funding-logos/grants-arts/

I have put the revised versions of the Festival Poster - revised to include the Arts Council logo - on the web in two places, Dropbox and Google Drive. If anyone has problems using these, do contact me, and we will try to think of something else...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/l6mqp0x54jdlovx/AAAtD4zxf9too8CVLmi7HOp6a/Photos/2014%20Gargrave%20Autoharp%20Festival%20POSTER

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_p56uOgSVJQZHliZlFPVmpnVFU&usp=sharing

Our thanks to Andrew Milne, of Elemental Ideas, for so promptly revising the Poster...

http://www.elemental-ideas.co.uk/

Patrick O'Sullivan

The Fable of the Autoharp

The Fable of the Autoharp

The Fable of the Autoharp in the North (what I wrote) appeared in the recent issue of Autoharp Notes, edited by Judy Splinder.

The Fable has now also appeared in the latest issue, May 2014, of the Gargrave Village magazine, which has a new and pretty web site...

http://www.gargravemag.co.uk/

Click on the image on the right, Gargrave and Coniston Cold Parish Magazine, and you get a pdf.

The Fable of the Autoharp is on pages 12 and 13.

The Fable was discussed at the Gargrave artists' group, and is illustrated by two Gargrave artists, Jo Ball and Alan Poxon.

(Amongst Alan Poxon's other jobs - he makes kites...)

If you read the rest of the Gargrave and Coniston Cold Parish Magazine you will see what I mean when I say that we are shoehorned into a busy community centre.  Good or bad, depending on your point of view - but it certainly makes the autoharp visible...