September 2012

Have a look at this link for a small film of wild heart images: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150773592777889

Wild Heart is a wonderful small festival, offering an enchanted & inspirational opportunity to partake in a feast of beautiful music, workshops, stories, talks, exquisite nature & transformational learning amongst gorgeous lakes, magical woodlands & wild grassy meadows. With over 80 workshops, hot tubs, sauna, great food and some amazing music.

Wild heart is super friendly, only an hour from London, half an hour from Brighton and one of the most fun and safe festivals in the UK. If you haven't been before come along, we are certain you will have a great time and will come back again and again.

Wild Heart offers you some of the best workshops in the country, ranging from Nature connection and living skills, Wildcraft, stone carving, woodcrafts, yoga, meditation, dance, singing, archery, shelter building, tracking, flint knapping, dance, biodanza, martial arts & a host of other surprises for both adults and kids alike!!

This May we will have the wild woodland cabaret tent, wild olympics, loads of great workshops and games for the whole family with teams, totems, obstacle courses, and barrels of fun for everyone.

We will have amazing music from Africa, India, the Middle East, Eastern Europe & the Celtic countries. We support great musicians from around the world, not because they have sold loads of records (yet some of them have), but because their music creates moments of magic and makes the tiny hairs on your back tingle with joy & wonder.

Always trying to keep things fresh & new, details of all the new & inspirational workshops will be on the site in early April.

Over the last few years we have hosted great musicians such as The Jolly Boys, Robin Williamson, Quwalli, Lokito, Avalon roots, Carrie tree, Khantara, At-Ma, undercover hippy, Linos Wengara Magaya & many more...

Tickets will be limited, so get tickets soon, as we will sell out, as we aim to keep Wild Heart, the intimate & beautiful gathering it has grown to be.

We look forward to seeing your wild hearts...

Some of the highlights of this Mays event will be the wonderful Soumik Datta, a young British composer and one of the most acclaimed Sarod (muscular plucked Indian string instrument) players of his generation.

He has collaborated with Jay-Z, Beyonce, Talvin Singh, Akram Khan, Nitin Sawhney, Bill Bailey, Raghu Dixit and composed the soundtrack for the feature films ‘Life Goes On’ starring Om Puri and Sharmila Tagore and ‘Tooting Broadway’ TBR.

A winner of the prestigious Dover Lane Music Award, India, Soumik was an artist in residence at Southbank Centre, London. He will begin a residency at Rich Mix, London in April, 2012.

Linos Wengara Magaya, an inspirational musician from Zimbabwe who founded Zimba re Mabwe, a traditional mbira group, and taught the other musicians to play mbira, marimba, and hosho. The group plays a cross-section of music from traditional to mbira-ragga style.
Linos Wengara Magaya website

Carrie Tree, a magical songwriter from England who plays hauntin gly beautiful music.
Carrie Tree's website

Bakk Lamp Fall. Senegalese sufi fusion kings, who mix the ancient gnawa desert traditions with wild contemporary sounds.
Bakk Lamp Fall website

Ravi Ji & Adrian Freedman are two extremely talented musicians playing instruments from India, Africa, Persia & the Middle East.
Ravi Ji and Adrian Freedman website

Bob Hillary & the massive mellow, will be sharing their new album for the first time at Wildheart.
Bob Hillary's website

Plus many more amazing musicians to be announced shortly. Some of the workshops will be held by

Jay Griffiths is an award-winning British writer and author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time, Anarchipelago and A Love Letter from a Stray Moon.[1]
Jay Griffiths in wikipedia

Peter Owen Jones, vicar or Firle and television preesnter of BBC series, ‘Extreme pilgrim’ and
‘Around the world in 80 faiths’.
Peter Owen Jones in wikipedia