#ambientmusicworld - Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival, back for a second year …

Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival, back for a second year …  The river and light of Woodbridge inspires many artists, poets, writers, and musicians. For the second year running the Autumn Equinox weekend of 22nd-24th September 2023 will celebrate the town’s link with ambient music.
So, what is Ambient Music? It is often described as ‘Music to quiet your thoughts’ and ‘Music that doesn’t get in the way.’ Recently the NHS suggested relaxation techniques including ambient music, that can help relieve stress and gain a sense of well-being. “Music intended to induce calm and a space to think” Known as the ‘Father of Ambient Music’ Brian and his brother, the ambient musician Roger Eno, grew up here. The BBC Arena film ‘Another Green World’ touches on the family’s time in Woodbridge and Suffolk and is being shown on THURSDAY 31st August 7.30PM at the Riverside Theatre as part of the ‘Brian Eno at 75’ evening and a prequel to the festival.

FRIDAY Sept 22nd Longshed Gallery 
5 PM - Doors open for a reception celebrating another son of Woodbridge, the Victorian gentleman Edward FitzGerald, and his world-famous book ’The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’. We explore Woodbridge’s fascinating link to Persia and the Town Crest Rose.  
7PM we will be showing a film of the highlight of last year’s Festival weekend - a performance by Suffolk native, pianist and composer, Tom Rogerson with Mercury Prize winner, Talvin Singh OBE, and friends. They played a Sunday afternoon concert in the beautiful Church of St Marys which was introduced by Brian Eno. He said how glad he was that ambient music had come back to Woodbridge and so are we!
SATURDAY Sept 23rd  10AM, We celebrate the beautiful River Deben with film and music during the day in the Longshed and outside on Whisstocks square.
A river wide installation ‘Floating Equal’ will take place during the time of the Autumnal equinox with ambient music makers, story tellers and poets dotted along the riverbank
4PM teatime of piano music
6PM an evening of live ambient music in the Longshed.
SUNDAY Sept 24th  
11.00AM -3PM Ambient Weavers in the Longshed - An exhibition of mixed media tapestries with music written and performed for the occasion.
12.00PM - 5PM ‘Filling the Spaces’ in the Community Hall - Art, Electronic Music and installations fill the Community Space for 5 hours.
6.00PM - 10PM ‘EMOM at the Angel’ - the national movement for Electronic Music Open Mic presents 4 hours of music and projections.
PERFORMERS at this Year’s Festival include Tom Rogerson, Jan Pulsford, Leon Clowes, Sophia Space Agency, Of the Night Sky, Clare Hedin, Electron Chorus, girl in a gale, Charlie Law, Network of Sound, Ambient Abyss, aTHeNa Blue, Tristan Burfield, Dronescape, Bards Aloud, Merlyn Bruce, Amy Wragg, Deben Collective, Fjorten, Mbira Mike, Steven Bradley, Yggdrasil, Helder Rock, Michael Rexen, Subskile, Aartwork, Tom Greig, Will Fergusson, Toine, Emma Goodridge-Hobson, Phil Jackson, Anthony Awad, Emma Khangaroot, Janice Oliver, Michelle Brace, Hardwired, Home at last, Byron Hand, Oliver Howling, Anthony Awad, Mbira Mike, Matthew Syddall and more …
TICKETS Weekend £15 - entrance to all events - pick and choose dip in - dip out!  Family weekend ticket - two adults with children £20  Day tickets £10 (+ Eventbrite Booking fees) This schedule will be updated regularly to confirm artists and details Thanks everyone Jan Pulsford