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Category: The Ballad Of Stokes Croft

Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

These Auld Graffitied Walls: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft

Nurtured’s the roots of grass that grows again.

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Posted on January 11, 2020

Electrically-Amplified & Clear: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft

As the sunlight stole away, the counter-culture quarter lit the dusk.

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Posted on January 9, 2020

Islands Of Debris: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft

Waves of ways of making artwork from life. Scores of sounds – electronic, acoustic. Walls sprayed with all kinds of colours – dark, bright. Generations giving new life to it.

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Posted on January 6, 2020January 6, 2020

Rhythm-Only Song: extracts from The Ballad Of Stokes Croft

“I thought we should sit ‘round, relate our stories, friend to friend. We each know something of this place. Let’s share it, this night, face to face.”

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Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019

The Ballad Of Stokes Croft: a song of poems

It is a song of poems – different parts in different verse throughout a night exchanging stories.

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Posted on October 20, 2019October 20, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a ballad

Each of us with tales ‘n layered lives to be disclosed…

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