A note from a fairy ...

Shhh ... don't tell Cheryl Beer we have jumped on here while she is out of the room.We are the fairies from The Tethered Fairy Ring. 

Cheryl & Susan have put all their fairy time into making the sheet music happen without being paid just because they think it is important to preserve new folk stories and pieces of folk music for future generations.

As you know, it's a tough time for us fairies at the moment and we can't afford to magic the money to pay for their expenses into their bank account. If we could we would. 

Which is why we are asking you to buy one of Cheryl's magical and very special sheet music booklets for £20 earthly pounds ... this covers the postman's wages, the petrol to the post office, paying the printer and the graphic designer for helping Cheryl get her fairy inspired musical notes into the world.

If you would like to have one of these very special booklets of sheet music in your library and be the owner of a beautifully crafted piece of fairy magic, then email:

cherylbeermusic@gmail.com

Thank you ... 

Quick ... she's coming back

Magie Féerique

As I have mentioned before, the rather lovely Susan Berry very kindly offered to notate my composition The Tethered Fairy Ring: A Symphonic Poem for Ukulele ...

... and to celebrate this somewhat momentus occasion of having a composition of mine published as sheet music, I invited Susan and her husband David over to Lower Normandy to the Artist Gites where I am staying for a month performing sound baths and generally having a rather lovely time.

Susan plays Welsh harp. In fact, she was the resident harpist at Teifi Harps in Llandysul for some time and is also runs Clarsach Harp Society in Wales. 

Wouldn't it be  lovely if Susan learnt The Tethered Fairy Ring and we performed it as a duet ... now there's an idea.

So the pair of us started rehearsing. We had 2 sessions before we left and though we'd have 3 days of rehearsals once she was here.

But as it happens, we had only 1 day before the performance day. But never to worry. In the words of Susan 'It'll be fine' and she was right. It was more than fine, it was fine and dandy.

I filmed the performance in the beautiful space of the old church in the village which I remember as being quite small from my last visit, but in actual fact is quite BIG for a village church and very beautiful indeed.

Alison, the lovely artist that owns the gites, she arranged for us to film in the church with the Mairie who very kindly gave permission.

can not thank Susan enough for bringing her beautiful harp all the way to France. I knew it would be awesome but what I hadn't given credit to was the fairy magic that would happen as a result of us being away together. It was quite honestly like being away with family. Susan and Dave and now on my list of forever fairy friends.

Fairy Dust & Wishes: Sheet Music Design Ideas

The design for the front cover of my sheet music for The Tethered Fairy Ring will be based on 'The Daffodil Fairy'. This little book was read to me by my Mother when I was small, filled with flower fairies and rhyming couplets, it captured my imagination. Particularly the Daffodil Fairy, as the National flower of Wales and being that the story is based on the West Wales Coastlin, it seems very apt indeed.

But the colour will be faded/aged and look very old as if it were printed in 1965 the year I was born.

A bit like this version of 'In the Bleak Mid- Winter'

Being as I am Fifty years old next year in July, I will also release 50 vinyl singles of the Ukulele Overture itself. 

When I was small it was my dream to make a record and when I prayed to teh fairies to make it so, I did not have MP3's or CD's in my head, how could I? NO, I had little black 45'' singles in my mind's eye.

Now I can be my own fairy, making my childhood dreams come true in my Fiftieth year, so as to make room for a new set of  dreams for the next 50 years!

Fairy Friends

Hello fellow fairy friends!
So sorry not to have written for a bit but things have been settling here! 

The Tethered Fairy Ring & I packed up and moved to South Wales so that we could go to University in Cardiff. 

My intention is to develop The Tethered Fairy Ring within my MA Drama specifically looking at how to offer depth within my storytelling, rather than linear experiences. 

I also want to build an interactive experience for the audience so that they are transported into the story. 

So, I have put my Fairy Ring to sleep for a bit and am working on my first adult story called 'Mother Moon' and this will be the basis of my first assessment in January. 

If I use The Fairy Ring for the first assessment then I am not able to use it again and I want it to be the all singing, all dancing finalé to my MA in August/September.

For details of how the development of 'Mother Moon' is going, you can pop over to www.fusioninspire.blogspot.com

Meanwhile, my set has become my furniture in my new pad!

The Fabulous Fairy Story Launch

ONLY ONE MORE SLEEP TO GO!

foto: Shootz by Maria

SEE YA TOMORROW FAIRY FOLK!

Can't wait to toddle off to 

The National Botanic Garden of Wales tomorrow, 13th October

 to tell my new story 

The Tethered Fairy Ring 

and perform my ... 

Symphonic Poem & Ukulele Overture 

for the Light Hearted

I'll be in The Great Glasshouse 

at 1.45pm 

with my beautiful hand crafted story telling quilt

FREE ADMISSION FOR FAIRIES & ELVES!!

FREE ADMISSION FOR FAIRIES & ELVES!

Yes, that's right! Anyone dressed as a fairy or an elf will get into the National Botanic Garden of Wales for FREE on Sunday 13th October when I will be launching The Tethered Fairy Ring as she leaves port to sail off into her exciting journey ... 

Tips from my friends: 

for those of you who do not usually dress as a fairy!

Sharron Jones: Textile Designer & Artist

All you need is to think like a fairy ...

Love like a fairy

Fly like a fairy

Amanda Rackstraw: Storyteller & Writer

And get your beautiful self over to 

The Great Glasshouse 

at 1.45pm 

on Sunday 13th October!

Fiona Winter: Director of Energy Moves

See you there my lovelies!