Darren Hayman's 'Thankful Villages' music project

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http://thankfulvillages.co.uk/ This is a 3-album project.
http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2...-thankful-villages-knowlton-kent/

About Thankful Villages

A Thankful Village is a village where every soldier returned alive from World War 1. The term Thankful or Blessed Village was coined by Arthur Mee in his set of guidebooks, The King's England in the 1930s. Darren Hayman is visiting each of the 54 Thankful Villages and making a piece of music and a short film for every one focussing on village life. Some take the form of instrumentals inspired by location, some are interviews with village residents set to music, others are new songs with lyrics or found local traditional songs.

The songs only rarely deal directly with The Great War, Thankful Villages is a random device to choose small locations and explore aspects of community and history. The work is inspired, written and recorded in situ with some post-production added at home in London.

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Darren's Thankful Villages tour is next month, June, with a couple of dates in July.