Refugee Week Workshop at Creator College

On July 28, 2013January 23, 2017 By Loudhailer UK

You’ve just gotta watch this, superb work created for Hull Refugee Week…

Refugee Week Portraits

On July 14, 2013January 23, 2017 By Loudhailer UK

Quentin took these lovely Instagram portraits of some of the people who came on our workshop at Creator College for Refugee Week.

Click on an image to enlarge, and scroll through

On the Radio again!

On May 9, 2013June 26, 2013 By Loudhailer UKLeave a comment

Richard and Quentin were on BBC Radio Humberside on Saturday morning, talking to Carl Wheatley about My Ancestors were French. They sounded great. Thanks to Steve Redgrave for inviting us on to the show, and thanks to Carl for playing one of our songs – The Same Sky.

Here’s Quentin in the BBC studio.

Team Photo

On April 27, 2013 By Loudhailer UKLeave a comment

The Same Sky Overture

On February 16, 2013January 23, 2017 By The Auricula SuiteLeave a comment

We have recorded a set of songs written to complement the project story. You can hear the first one here. It’s the only instrumental in The Auricula Suite, featuring guitars, hammer dulcimer and a beautiful lonesome hurdy gurdy solo; The Same Sky Overture.

The Auricula Suite is our set of songs telling folk tales of a journey to a new land; a story of love and loss, persecution and a new beginning – inspired by the small alpine Primula auricula and the folk tale of its 16th century journey to England with the Huguenot refugees.

The Same Sky is Raoul’s lament. His lover, Valentina, has escaped persecution on a ship to England, but Raoul stands by his faith and refuses to go. It’s a sad song, now that his lover has gone. He looks up at the heavens and feels comfort in knowing that wherever she is, she’ll look up and see the same moon, the same stars……The Same Sky

© 2012 Duffy-Howard

Film Publicity

On February 12, 2013February 28, 2013 By Loudhailer UKLeave a comment

Our project film ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’, shot by film maker Quentin Budworth, was featured in this lovely big colourful two page article in the Hull Daily Mail yesterday.

Thank you to journalist Will Ramsey.

Quentin and Rich were guests on BBC Radio Humberside’s Breakfast Show last Saturday and talked to presenter Carl Wheatley about the film. Thanks to Carl and producer Steve Redgrave.

Thanks to Lucy Lyon who featured the film on the Hull Daily Mail website last week. You can read the article here.

There were one or two uninformed comments and this little heart warmer from redfraggle73…

Tuesday, February 05 2013, 9:08AM

“This is fantastic and a great piece of sociological reporting as well as art. Hull is, at long last, a diverse city and will become more so in the future. I’m excited and proud to see our city celebrating this and giving residents an insight into how life is for people when they arrive in this city. The global movement of people is a fact and is of benefit to all of us living in this world, be this out of choice or to flee persecution. The ignorant racist comments written here, as well as those I see so often written in response to other articles, just show the authors to be uneducated bigots. I suspect these people are happy to be called uneducated bigots, but I feel that someone should at least point it out.”

Making a Record

On January 24, 2013January 23, 2017 By Loudhailer UKLeave a comment

Making a record of My Ancestors were French

: Stingray Lou

Corey, Guitar

Quentin, Hurdy Gurdy

Lou, Bass

Andy Studio

Gurdy Head

Mandi, Violin

Stranger in a Strange Land

On January 15, 2013January 23, 2017 By Loudhailer UKLeave a comment

Our new short film ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’ is ready for release. We have made the film of Dilzar’s story especially for our “My Ancestors were French” project. The six minute long film illuminates Dilzar’s evocative story that Rich and Dilzar worked on together to complement Richard Lees’ Rock against Racism poster exhibition at Wilberforce House Museum in Hull (for Wilberforce 2007).

“Wow, what a beautiful film! It made me feel very emotional.” Abby Wright

“If people can clear their minds and watch this film and listen they may rethink and see the real picture for people who are sometimes just looking to be accepted, no matter where you are from. We all carry hidden sadness.” Ron Wilke

Watch the film and see how it makes you feel…

Award winning filmmaker, Quentin Budworth, shot the film of Dilzar talking about his experiences of what it feels like to be a refugee in a strange land, and how music can bring people of different cultures together, overcoming adversity and creating something good and new.

Rich documented the days filming with a series of images in the gallery below. Click on in image to enlarge, and scroll through…